[governance] WG: Concern for the future of civil society re IGF

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Hi all
 
McTim is right, there is no "rough consensus". 
 
I did not jump into the discussion because I am very busy these days with some other activities, however I follow the debate and would warn to move forward too fast. 
 
There is a need for a more fundamental clarification of the whole issue and a more strategic re-orientation of the IGC and the role of civil society in Internet Governance policy development in the coming years. This is part of a broader package of post MAG/IGF, post JPA/ICANN and post GAID/UN. What is the role of the IGC in all these processes (including the forthcoming ITU pushed WSIS Forum in May 2010 and the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in October 2010). And what the IGC is doing in other process where Internet Governance becomes an issue (ACTA is just one example)? And how the IGC positioned itself to new processes in the UN General Assembly (with regard to Internet security and governance, pushed by the government of Russia in the 2nd committee)? And what we are doing in cases like Google vs. China? 
 
Before we make hasty statements on the future of the IGF, probably we should start to discuss a more strategic vision paper on "Civil Society and Internet Governance 2015". If we have something like this until the IGF in Vilnjus this would be great. We could have an extra one day pre-conference of the IGC to invite also other stakeholders and we could organize one or two workshops around this strategic re-orientation within the IGF 2010 programme.  
 
Jeremy, I understand that as a new co-chair you want to "deliver" something, but sometimes it is better for a chair just to enable the members of the group to exchange their views, to stimulare their thinking and to moderate a bottom up opinion building process. Strong leadership includes also the capacity to listen, to ask questions (not to give quick answers) and to steer the process from behind, where needed. 
 
Best regards
 
Wolfgang
 

 
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