OFFLIST:Re: [governance] Separate statement on themes for Vilnius
Baudouin SCHOMBE
b.schombe at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 09:49:17 EST 2010
it's just a suggestion , Ginger. More details will be send shortly
SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
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2010/2/8 Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>
> Hi Baudouin,
>
> Thank you for your comment. It is too late to make a substantive change in
> our statement and your concept is not clear to me. Is this a workshop or a
> main session suggestion? a call for support? Could you please develop it
> more and present it for consideration on the discussion list, please?
>
> Regards,
> Ginger
>
> Baudouin SCHOMBE wrote:
>
> it would be very indicated also to add *"process of security and
> protection of intellectual property on the Net*". It is a nebula which it
> is not very well developed in many emergent countries, more particularly, in
> Africa. This is the case of the cybercriminality, for example.
>
> SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
> COORDONNATEUR DU CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL (CAFEC)
> COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
> MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE
> GNSO and NCUC MEMBER (ICANN)
>
> Téléphone mobile: +243998983491/+243999334571
> +243811980914
> email: b.schombe at gmail.com
> blog: http://akimambo.unblog.fr
> siège temporaire : Boulevard du 30 juin Immeuble Royal, Entrée A,7e
> niveau.
>
>
> 2010/2/6 Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
>
>>
>>
>> Ginger Paque wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone... I just got in to Geneva, and see that there have been no
>> responses to this. Jeremy, if it is ok with you, I think we should follow up
>> on Parminder's proposal.
>>
>> Parminder: can you write up the actual wording for your proposal? I think
>> it is better if it comes from someone in the list. If you and Jeremy agree,
>> we can post:
>>
>> Parminder, since there have been no comments, please post your proposed
>> wording as soon as possible.
>>
>> Ginger/ Jeremy/ All,
>>
>> See if the following works. (At the airport, leaving for Geneva. So wont
>> be able to comment any further throughout the day.)
>>
>> (proposed statement begins)
>>
>> IGC proposes three themes for main sessions for IGF Vilnius:
>>
>> Network Neutrality - Ensuring Openness in All Layers of the Internet
>>
>>
>> A Development Agenda for Internet Governance
>>
>> Internet Rights and Principles
>>
>> It is significant to note that on the themes of Network Neutrality and
>> Development Agenda workshops have been organized in a few earlier IGFs,
>> including 3 hour workshops on both of these themes at IGF Sharm.Thus, the
>> two topics have considerable maturity within the IGF, while constituting
>> important issues requiring urgent attention of the global IG community. The
>> dynamic coalition on Internet rights and principles is one of the most
>> active DC and has done good work in the area of IRP. Including IRP as a main
>> theme, apart from the theme's intrinsic importance, will be a good way to
>> mainstreaming the work of DCs in the IGF.
>>
>> A brief description of the three proposed themes is given below:
>>
>> Network Neutrality - Ensuring Openness in All Layers of the Internet
>>
>> Network neutrality has been an important architectural principle for the
>> Internet. This principle is under considerable challenge as Internet becomes
>> the mainstream communication platform for almost all business and social
>> activities. This main session will examine the implication of this
>> principle, and its possible evolutionary interpretations, for Internet
>> policy in different areas. Issues about the openness of the Internet
>> architecture are increasingly manifest in all layers of the Internet today.
>>
>> A Development Agenda for Internet Governance
>>
>> Development is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its mandate for the
>> IGF. But while development has been posed as a cross-cutting theme of
>> IGF meetings, they have not featured a broadly inclusive and probing
>> dialogue on what Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) might mean in
>> conceptual and operational terms. To address this gap, the IGC previously
>> has advocated a main session on A Development Agenda for Internet
>> Governance, and some its members have organized workshops or produced
>> position papers elaborating different visions of what such an agenda could
>> entail. In light of the related discussions during the Sharm el Sheikh
>> cycle, we renew our call for a main session on this theme. The dialogue at
>> Vilnius could, inter alia, identify the linkages between Internet governance
>> mechanisms and development, and consider options for mainstreaming
>> development considerations into IGF discussions and Internet governance
>> processes, as appropriate. We also continue to support the
>> Swiss government’'s proposal to consider establishing a multi-stakeholder
>> Working Group that could develop recommendations to the IGF on a development
>> agenda.
>>
>> Internet rights and principles
>>
>> A main session on 'Internet rights and principles' would explore a rights-based discourse in the area of Internet Governance. While it is relatively easy to articulate and claim “rights” it is much more difficult to agree on, implement and enforce them. We also recognize that rights claims can sometimes conflict or compete with each other. There can also be uncertainty about the proper application of a rights claim to a factual situation. The change in the technical methods of communication often undermines pre-existing understandings of how to apply legal categories. These complexities, however, only strengthen the case for using the IGF to explicitly discuss and debate these problems. Internet governance has up to this time largely been founded in technical principles and, increasingly, on the Internet’s functionality as a giant global marketplace. With the Internet bec
>> oming increasingly central to many social and political institutions, an alternative foundation and conceptual framework for IG can be explored in looking at 'internet rights and principles'.
>>
>>
>> The IGC affirms it support and assistance to develop main sessions based
>> on these themes, and look forward to a fruitful and purposeful IGF Vilnius.
>>
>> (Statements ends)
>>
>> Parminder
>>
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>> We will then open for comments and call for consensus... unfortunately
>> probably 24h and 24h due to time constraints.
>>
>> Can you guys please try to get back to me asap?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ginger
>>
>> Parminder wrote:
>>
>> I support Bill's draft below... I propose that co-coordinators take this
>> language for dev agenda, and the Hyderabad statement's for NN/ Open
>> Internet, and if the decision is to include 'Internet rights and principles'
>> in the list, abstract a short para on it from the earlier statement which is
>> relatively not very sharp, and in size no longer than the paras on dev
>> agenda and NN. We shd put it out for a day or so of last comments and then a
>> final version for a consensus call over 48 hours.
>>
>> In the statement we should also mention that special 3 hour workshops on
>> the two themes of dev agenda and NN were organized last year, which
>> represents a certain degree of maturity of these themes within the IGF
>> context. And if 'internet rights and principles' is included as a main
>> theme, that the DC on IRP has been doing good work in this area for
>> considerable time now, an dis in fact the most active dynamic coalition (the
>> much celebrated concept in the IGF).
>>
>> Parminder
>>
>> William Drake wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> With just a few days to go before the OC, I'm not clear if we are
>> proceeding with a theme statement or have given up on the idea. In the
>> event that it's the former, I just reread what we agreed for Hyderabad, and
>> we really can't use it anymore, it's dated.
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Parminder wrote:
>>
>> A Development Agenda for Internet Governance
>> Development is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its mandate for the
>> IGF. Development also was listed as a cross-cutting theme of the Athens and
>> Rio conferences, but neither featured a main session that devoted
>> significant, focused attention to the linkages between Internet governance
>> mechanisms and development. However, at Rio a workshop was organized by
>> civil society actors in collaboration with the Swiss government, Brazilian
>> Internet Steering Committee and other partners from all stakeholder
>> groupings on, “Toward a Development Agenda for Internet Governance.” The
>> workshop considered the options for establishing a holistic program of
>> analysis and action that would help mainstream development considerations
>> into Internet governance decision making processes.
>> Attendees at this workshop expressed strong interest in further work on
>> the topic being pursued in the IGF. Hence, we believe the Development Agenda
>> concept should be taken up in a main session at Hyderabad, and that this
>> would be of keen interest to a great many participants there. We also
>> support the Swiss government’s proposal to consider establishing a
>> multi-stakeholder Working Group that could develop recommendations to the
>> IGF on a development agenda.
>>
>>
>> How about something like this, which doesn't change the substantive
>> thrust of what was previously agreed:
>>
>> A Development Agenda for Internet Governance
>>
>> Development is a key focus of the Tunis Agenda and its mandate for the
>> IGF. But while development has been posed as a cross-cutting theme of
>> IGF meetings, they have not featured a broadly inclusive and probing
>> dialogue on what Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) might mean in
>> conceptual and operational terms. To address this gap, the IGC previously
>> has advocated a main session on A Development Agenda for Internet
>> Governance, and some its members have organized workshops or produced
>> position papers elaborating different visions of what such an agenda could
>> entail. In light of the related discussions during the Sharm el Sheikh
>> cycle, we renew our call for a main session on this theme. The dialogue at
>> Vilnius could, inter alia, identify the linkages between Internet governance
>> mechanisms and development, and consider options for mainstreaming
>> development considerations into IGF discussions and Internet governance
>> processes, as appropriate. We also continue to support the
>> Swiss government’'s proposal to consider establishing a multi-stakeholder
>> Working Group that could develop recommendations to the IGF on a development
>> agenda.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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