[governance] Invitation => IG4D
Fouad Bajwa
fouadbajwa at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 19:10:44 EDT 2010
Dear Bill,
As you mention the IG Publication for this year, I have to personally
congratulate you and the contributors to this publication for doing an
amazingly wonderful job!!! Hats off because this has become an
important documentation to read and keep. I appreciate your
contribution on IG4D as it is a very helpful starter as well as to
help people get up to speed on contemporary issues with regards to the
relation between IG and development!
This is a very important contribution to both the IGF and the IG4D
session that will not go un-noticed!
Best Regards
Fouad Bajwa
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:50 AM, William Drake
<william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
> Hi Mawaki
> Thanks for all this, I certainly think research is needed and am open to
> collaboration etc. I have a chapter in the Sharm book being released
> tomorrow on the development agenda thing that suggests inter alia the
> formation of an open ms working group (or whatever is the locally acceptable
> term, if WG is still banned) that would gather analyze share info and be
> supported by a secretariat research capability. I suppose the chances of
> anything remotely like that depend on whether the UNGA process provides some
> 2.0 push. In the more likely event that this doesn't happen, then it'd be up
> to interested researchers/institutions to break the ground and see if the
> effort garners support over time. If that doesn't gather big mo then still
> smaller individual efforts like a meeting/book project are always possible.
> All depends on whether the core view that IG4D is a worthy construct that
> matters and merits further consideration moves through the usual gauntlet
> and emerges intact; if it gets picked apart as unnecessary, not
> "constructive" and worth pursuing blah blah blah then the minimalist route
> will be all there is. Look what happened with the WSIS Principles
> discussion, we had one rather three hour session in Sharm, it was declared
> by those who matter to be unsatisfying rather than a useful if overly
> constrained first effort to build on, and now apparently that part of the
> IGF mandate doesn't merit any further collective work. IG4D could go the
> same way if people don't say we want more. I hope at least IGC will…
> Anyway, yes let's keep the line open.
> Best,
> Bill
> On Sep 12, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
> Very interesting topic! Do you think you guys might also address or come up
> with some research agenda items on that? You may have noticed my "mission in
> action" status in policy advocacy or activism over the last couple years
> (and as you probably know, there's something dogging me I really needed and
> still need to get out of the way) but my past/recent experience in IG line
> of action has made me want to take on a research agenda on "IG and Economic
> Diversity" (or IG4D if you will)... So you all may take this either as a
> warning ;-) or... as a call for future collaboration.
> Seriously, I think a research agenda is warranted (in policy, political
> economy, or social sciences in general) and I'd be interested to hear about
> any developments on that front and to take part in any relevant effort when
> the time comes.
> From a practice perspective, I was involved (as Diplo fellow to WGIG
> Secretariat) in the effort led by Karen Banks among WGIG members to draft
> the final report chapter on development, but it was a beginning, a good one,
> and to my recollection the discourse at that point was rather generally ICT
> than specifically IG. Then it was the "ICANN nexus" as you point out that
> has been the most eye-opening for me. During relevant policy development
> processes on the GNSO council I repeatedly raised concerns about, among
> other things, the cost structure of new gTLD applications with in
> mind potential registry-wannabe's from developing regions. We discussed with
> fellow council members about options to address the issue, and I remember
> Marilyn Cade was trying to champion the idea of an ICANN foundation or
> rather funds-in-trust to help with that, if my memory is correct. I am not
> sure what has happened to that concern and those ideas since I left the
> council. We also had interesting process and relevant discussions with Lee
> and our colleagues in the Caribbean during their 2006 regional IGF in
> Grenada.
> Anyway, the reason why I'm now highlighting "economic diversity" as opposed
> to "development" (although I might retain the latter for international
> cooperation and UN types consumption) is that "development" brings up
> reflexes of assistance on both sides - and I contend even more on the
> "donor" side than we may want to think. I personally would rather take a
> more entrepreneurship-oriented approach in order to foster participation of
> developing countries in the information economy at all levels possible; I'd
> like to see a global IG regime that gives "equal opportunity" to players
> from all across the globe, not only those who can afford lawyers' fee in
> some country(ies) where they are the highest in the world (as if linguistic
> divide was not enough burden to many of them). And as a scholar, I'd like to
> be able to bring sound and robust arguments, based on research findings, to
> bear on that issue.
> In the mean time it will be useful to see, from your workshop, how IG issues
> can be framed in relation to the other development agendas in international
> affairs and global governance. I look forwards to hearing about your
> proceedings and conclusions. I wish every success to your workshop,
> Tijani's, the rest of the workshops, to all IGC participants and to the
> whole Forum.
> Best,
> Mawaki
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:03 AM, William Drake
> <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Tijani,
>> On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:38 AM, Tijani BEN JEMAA wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Workshop #: 61
>>
>> Theme: New gTLDs and IDNs for
>> Development
>>
>> Date: Tuesday 14
>> September 2010
>>
>> Time slot: 09:00 - 11:00
>>
>> Venue: Room 3
>>
>> This looks very interesting, I wish it didn't overlap with the Setting the
>> Scene session I have to attend (we'll be talking about some of the
>> background papers included in the Sharm book, which are mostly by IGC
>> members). I also wish it had popped up on the radars of the planning group
>> for the IG4D main session; don't know how we missed it, very sorry. But
>> while you're not listed as a "feeder workshop" for that session, it would be
>> great if you could anyway provide an input on its main conclusions etc.
>> BTW, the relationships between new gTLDs, IDNs and development will also
>> be an element of a more broadly framed workshop, the fourth I've organized
>> on the notion of a development agenda, description below. It'd be good if
>> we could pursue some synergies between the two, as well as with other
>> IG4D-related events, e.g. the main session, George Sadowsky's workshop WS
>> 174 (which precedes mine in the same room), etc. Development is much more
>> prominent on this year's agenda than in previous IGFs, but it would take
>> some initiative to build on that going forward.
>> Best,
>> Bill
>> ———————
>> Workshop 165, Day 2, Wednesday, 15 September, 16:30-18:30, Room 3
>>
>> A Development Agenda Approach to Internet Names and Numbers
>>
>> A development agenda can be defined as a holistic program of analysis and
>> action intended to mainstream development considerations into the procedures
>> and policy outputs of global governance mechanisms. While there have been
>> concerted efforts to pursue such agendas in the multilateral institutions
>> dealing with issues like international trade and intellectual property,
>> there has been no corresponding initiative with respect to global Internet
>> governance. Hence, a series of interrelated workshops has been organized at
>> the Rio, Hyderabad and Sharm el Sheikh IGF meetings to help foster dialogue
>> on the possible establishment of such an initiative. Over the course of
>> these events, participants have considered the potential value-added of a
>> development agenda; fleshed out its broad institutional and substantive
>> contours; identified some particularly important linkages between internet
>> governance and development that merit further consideration; and in light of
>> the WSIS principles, agreed that the IGF is the most appropriate venue in
>> which to devise an approach to mainstreaming development within Internet
>> governance institutions, as applicable. Building on these foundations, the
>> next step in the process should be to test the general model in a specific
>> issue-area and institutional context in order to identify possible
>> refinements.
>>
>> Accordingly, the proposed Vilnius workshop would apply the development
>> agenda approach to the field of Internet names and numbers, with particular
>> attention being devoted to the ICANN nexus. In addition to advancing IG4D
>> efforts within the IGF, the workshop also could provide food for thought to
>> the growing dialogue within ICANN on how to better address development
>> concerns. The three main elements of a development agenda to be considered
>> would include: a) capacity building partnerships to enable the
>> effective participation of governmental and nongovernmental actors in
>> technical dialogues and decision making processes; b) institutional
>> measures---e.g. with respect to information overload, working methods and
>> culture, and possibly development-oriented focal points---that could
>> facilitate increased engagement; and c) identification of the
>> substantive policy issues that may raise distinctive developmental
>> considerations and to which a developmental orientation could usefully be
>> brought to bear.
>>
>> Speakers
>>
>> William J. Drake [moderator]
>> Senior Associate, Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute
>> of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
>>
>> Olga Cavalli
>> Adviser for Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Government of
>> Argentina
>>
>> Rafik Dammak
>> Research Student in Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University
>> of Tokyo; Tunisia
>>
>> Zahid Jamil
>> Senior Partner, Jamil & Jamil, Barrister-at-Law; and Chairman, Domain Name
>> Dispute Resolution Center; Pakistan
>>
>> Alice Munyua
>> Convenor, East African IGF and Kenya ICT Action Network,
>> Communications Commission, Government of Kenya
>>
>> Milton Mueller
>> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies; XS4All
>> Chair, University of Delft; Partner, the Internet Governance Project; USA
>>
>> Mike Silber
>> General Manager: Regulatory, Neotel; Management Committee member, South
>> African Internet Service Providers' Association; Member of the Board of
>> Directors, ICANN; South Africa
>>
>> Jean-Jacques Subrenat
>> Member of the Board of Directors, ICANN; France
>>
>>
>> Institutional Co-Sponsors
>>
>> Centre for International Governance, Graduate Institute for International
>> Studies [lead; academic]
>>
>> Association for Progressive Communications [civil society]
>>
>> Government of Argentina (TBC) [government]
>>
>> Institute for Internet Policy & Law, Beijing Normal University [academic]
>>
>> Council of Europe [international organization]
>>
>> Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of Buenos Aires [academic]
>>
>> Federal Office of Communication, Government of Switzerland [government]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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