[governance] Very neutral statement on enhanced cooperation

[parminder]

Hi All

I agree with Lee that we should try to be more substantive in our 
enhanced cooperation statement.

This is also related to Izumi's initiative towards renewing IGC energies 
through more purposeful and focused work, about which more in a separate 
email. We are in a political process and non-decision is itself a 
political choice. As the main global civil society organization it 
hardly behooves us to say, we really have no ideas about what kind of 
global IG regime we will like to have and move towards through the WSIS 
mandated enhanced cooperation process. In fact, since we are kind of 
being specifically asked, we should be able to come up with some 
relatively clear models of where to go and how. We need to at least try 
to pull together some common position on this most important issue. We 
cannot give up even without a discussion on the list.

On the other hand, if we are indeed so pessimistic that any common 
progressive civil society position on the most appropriate global IG 
model and institutions (or at least a small range of possibilities) is 
very unlikely to emerge, then perhaps we just may not have the political 
cohesion to succeed in the new initiative being proposed by the 
co-coordinators. I am not being dismissive about this initiative, I am 
very much for it and have myself proposed similar things earlier, I am 
just posing a challenge which looks rather real to me.

In short, what I mean is that if we are unable to have a  strategy for 
such an important and urgent issue like enhanced cooperation, when 'the 
moment' stares in our face, can we realistically hope to come up with 
other running strategies for our work.

Parminder




On Wednesday 03 November 2010 07:47 PM, Lee W McKnight wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> If I may wade in here, even if not pretending I know whether we are the moon or the sky:
>
> Right now we got a pretty small list with grandiose notions; with volunteer human capital its only resource.
>
> There's related dedicated folks clustering around a variety of 'Internet governance' institutions or institutions which -also - do Internet governance, however else they define and busy themselves. Some are the same people here, stretched thinner and thinner...
>
> Anyway, rather than moon and sky if it is just one world of ig, it's...easier.
>
> In UN-GAID context in September I advocated a 'social grid' around and beyond ICT4D activities...remember a few emails on list re why not have IGF messages received by GAID and via GAID's eNabler  tools to development planners worldwide. That is just one possible path if a social grid is established which more tightly but still loosely because it is only virtually or voluntarily coupled one to another ig orgs.
>
> The connection to enhanced cooperation: a social grid into and across ig orgs in which civil society ALWAYS has a seat at the table - and oh yeah nation-states have a say too - but that is enhanced cooperation.
>
> In my opinion.
>
> So this may all be too much for the enhanced cooperation neutral statement, but point is that maybe it is time not to be too too neutral and actually work to define -enhanced cooperation- operationally. Starting by advocating the same, as part of the next 5 year agenda.
>
> Lee
> ________________________________________
> From: Jeremy Malcolm [jeremy at ciroap.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:22 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; JFC Morfin
> Subject: Re: [governance] Very neutral statement on enhanced cooperation
>
> On 03/11/2010, at 4:22 PM, JFC Morfin wrote:
>
>    
>> As I hinted in talking of a moon in the governance sky, we need to change ourselves first if we do not understand what one expects from us. There is time to first define our area of responsibility, what civil society means, and the legitimacy, pertience and competence it gives us to address people's private, civil and public needs.
>>
>> Sorry if I knocked at the wrong door. My need is for addressing the real life impact on public issues of the technology fondamental metachange we have obtained (RFC 5890-5895). The important  thing is not the metachange (it was implied in the technology) but the intergovernmental assessment of what real life should look like from their current perspective.
>>      
> Certainly you are not alone in suggesting that the IGC needs to get more practical and to better engage with broader communities.  But it sounds like this is (valid, and important) input for the IGC working groups, rather than a suggestion for drafting of our statement to the upcoming enhanced cooperation consultation, correct?
>
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