[governance] FINAL? DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

Wed Nov 10 09:46:47 EST 2010

I think Miguel's point are not included, right?

On 11/10/10 6:40 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> There is still active discussion about this statement, so excuse me 
> labelling this as "final?", but we need to try to quickly wrap things 
> up in order to meet our deadline of Monday.  You can still make 
> comments which can be incorporated into the version that goes to a 
> consensus call, but please try to make them minor and specific, if you 
> can.
>
> Please also try to remember that we are trying to craft a statement 
> that will be acceptable by as many IGC members as possible, which - 
> because we have such a wide diversity of views - probably means that 
> nobody will find it completely to their satisfaction.  This is not to 
> excuse the deficiencies in the statement, but just to ask for your 
> tolerance. :-)  If there is no way that you can agree to the statement 
> even with minor amendments, you can make this point, or just reject it 
> at the poll.
>
> This time, I just put the revision marks below, since I'm sure at 
> least 90% of you can see them.  (Izumi and I have discussed putting 
> together a proper collaborative editing environment for drafting 
> statements, but this is still just a vague plan.)
>
> --- begins ---
>
> The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (CS-IGC) regards the 
> process towards enhanced cooperation as a vital step towards 
> addressing the "many cross-cutting international public policy issues 
> that require attention and are not adequately addressed by the current 
> mechanisms" (Tunis Agenda para 68).
>
> Despite an intergovernmental mandate from WSIS to address this 
> governance deficit, much remains to be done.  It is imperative that 
> this deficit continue to be addressed, where appropriate through new 
> institutional developments that comply with the WSIS process 
> criteria of being multilateral, transparent, democratic and inclusive.
>
> It is now especially critical that the global community give renewed 
> attention to these principles, at a time when we see danger of them 
> being forgotten - for example, in that a proposed Anti-Counterfeiting 
> Trade Agreement that will affect Internet users around the world 
> (including the most marginalized), has been shaped almost entirely by 
> powerful corporate and state actors from the global North.
>
> We make three further points.  First, enhanced cooperation should 
> encompass all Internet-related public policy issues; second, many of 
> our members believe the existing arrangements of relevant 
> organisations (including the Internet Governance Forum) do not fully 
> implement enhanced cooperation, and thirdly whatever new arrangements 
> may be put in place, civil society must play an integral part in them, 
> as one of the prerequisites for their legitimacy.
>
> These points will be explained in turn:
>
> 1. Although much of the discussion of enhanced cooperation at WSIS 
> turned around the narrow issue of internationalising the oversight of 
> Internet naming and numbering functions critical Internet resource 
> administration, the Tunis Agenda expresses this principle far more 
> broadly to include other substantive Internet related public policy 
> issues that require attention and resolution at the global level.  It 
> also reminds us that the ultimate objective of our cooperation is to 
> advance a people-centred, inclusive, development-oriented and 
> non-discriminatory Information Society.
>
> This is not to say that the broadening of oversight of critical 
> Internet resource administration is not an important issue - it is, 
> and CS-IGC members are among many who strongly consider the continuing 
> supervisory role of the US government to be inappropriate for a truly 
> global resource such as the Internet. But this is only one of many 
> important public policy issues on which enhanced cooperation is needed.
>
> 2. The IGF in its present form is a very important part of the broader 
> enhanced cooperation process, in that its multi-stakeholder process 
> can provide input to shape decisions taken on Internet related public 
> policy issues in other fora.  However the full realisation of enhanced 
> cooperation will require a multi-stakeholder process to extend to all 
> other Internet governance organisations, whether new or established.
>
> If institutional changes are to be made, tThere are various options 
> for enhancing multi-stakeholder cooperation within and amongst all 
> relevant organisations (which may be complementary).  These include:
>
> * making no institutional changes but encouraging organisations to 
> enhance their own cooperation with other stakeholders and to report to 
> the CSTD on their progress;
>
> * establishing a lightweight multi-stakeholder observatory process 
> perhaps hosted under the auspices of the IGF (pursuant to its mandate 
> in paragraph 72(i));
>
> * utilising a virtual and voluntary global social community or 
> ecosystem, linking together all Internet governance organisations, in 
> which all stakeholders would participate; or
>
> * establishing a new umbrella governance institution for Internet 
> policy development establishing new governance arrangements designed 
> to address any pressing public policy matters that cannot be managed 
> through existing institutions, with space for the full participation 
> of each stakeholder group in its respective role. This might also be 
> situated within the IGF, but pursuant to a new and supplementary mandate.
>
> 3. Paragraph 71 of the Tunis Agenda makes very clear that civil 
> society is an integral participant in the development of any process 
> towards enhanced cooperation.  Therefore the IGC, in our capacity as 
> members of civil society, looks forward to contributing constructively 
> in transparent, accountable and democratic multi-stakeholder 
> consultations towards this end.
>
> --- ends ---
>
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