[governance] New CSTD questionnaire on the IGF

[Katitza Rodriguez]

I do apologize for my previous emails. It is Saturday morning and I am 
jetlagged. Here is a better email that I hope shows my general 
brainstorming on the matter.

Greetings,

My concern is related to the lack of civil society organizations who are 
NOT participating in the IGF - CSTD process but who are quite active in 
the IG field at the national level, regional level, within the OECD, 
WIPO, Council of Europe, European Commission, ASEAN, APEC, or other 
processes. A discussion on the future of the IGF pop up in the last ICCP 
meeting at the OECD.

This discussion touch several areas beyond CIR, like Access to Knowledge 
/ Digital Education (copyright cops copyright enforcement agenda), 
Cybersecurity (Privacy, Freedom of Expression, Association), Child 
Protection (Privacy, freedom of expression).  A decision about weather 
or not a global IG space should be created to discuss global Internet 
Public Policy issues with binding agreements need to include, not only 
those who are members of IGC and participate in their own personal 
capacity, but also those organizations and individuals who are also 
working on the field, and who are not involved in the politics of what 
is going on here. Yes, the Librarians, the A2K movement, the privacy 
advocate community, the actual FOE organizations.

I also want to share with all of you that as of now, I can't grasp the 
overall politics beyond what IGC members said on the list, and what it 
has been published on the media. <1> While I can guess the position of 
different or some governments, I can't grasp the opinions of other 
governments, and other stakeholders. I want to know why and what was the 
reasoning behind the question about weather or not we were able to 
choose some technical representatives and the CSTD were not able to do 
so directly. Are there governments which are not ok with it?

<1> Controversy Over New IGF Mandate, UN Role In Internet Governance
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/11/04/controversy-over-new-igf-mandate-un-role-in-internet-governance/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ip-watch+%28Intellectual+Property+Watch%29

A few thoughts for an early Saturday morning

Katitza
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