[governance] "Mapping Internet Governance" workshop (was Re: Proposed...)

[Roland Perry]

In message <20110408100448.9649A15C0F9 at quill.bollow.ch>, at 12:04:48 on 
Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> writes
>> [..] What will be the cause of some debate, I think, is deciding
>> what issues are in fact "Internet Governance". [..]
>>
>> Would you, for example, include the Council of Europe on account of the
>> Budapest Convention which has impacts upon network operators to be
>> slightly more "law enforcement friendly" than otherwise?
>
>This should be decided in view of the stated objective to empower
>individuals and stakeholder organizations to make sure that their
>viewpoints and concerns are appropriately taken into consideration.
>
>If it makes sense for stakeholders who particularly care about
>making sure that the "law enforcement friendliness" of network
>oprators is in some ways "not too great" or "not too small", to
>monitor what CoE is doing and if necessary seek to influence it,
>then yes. Otherwise no.
>
>Given that EDRi, the European Digital Rights organization that
>cares deeply about these kinds of issues from a human rights
>perspective, has taken the trouble of becoming a formal Observer at
>CoE and sending someone to participate at meetings (at least this
>was the case a few years ago, I'm not sure about the current status)
>I would expect the result to be that the CoE should definitely be
>included on the map.

I agree with that analysis. My real point here is to ask when will this 
workshop be analysing all the other potential organisations?

Will the workshop be presenting for discussion a paper that's almost 
complete, or is it the start of the process of writing such a paper?
-- 
Roland Perry
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