[governance] Three IGC workshops (summary)
Sivasubramanian M
isolatedn at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 02:24:53 EDT 2011
I offer to serve as the remote moderator for the workshop around India's
proposal. I notice that you have mentioned Isoc India Chennai as a possible
supporter of this workshop. We will place this at our Chapter meeting to
formally come back to IGC as a co-supporter.
As for Topic 2, mapping Internet Governance, it requires utmost care in
handling a topic of this nature, hope that the IGC handles this topic in a
manner that the topic is not captured and that workshop brings about a
balanced outcome
Thankyou
Sivasubramanian M
President
Isoc India Chennai
http://isocindiachennai.in
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am very happy to serve as remote moderator at one or more of the IGC
> workshops as needed, and as scheduling of WSs permits. My preference would
> be for WS 2 Mapping IG.
>
> Thanks to all. best, gp
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> On 4/11/2011 12:11 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> I'm not proposing to do an actual consensus call poll over the three IGC
> workshops, since they are not in the nature of statements and there is
> room for many viewpoints within all of them, but this is a summary of
> the status of our three workshop proposals so far, to which any more
> suggestions or serious objections are invited. We also need volunteers
> to co-organise and to serve as remote moderators as noted below.
>
> These are listed here in the order they were proposed. We will be
> submitting the workshop proposals by this Friday.
>
> 1. Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0
>
> As a participant in the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to
> the IGF, the Government of India recently provided a set of
> "Proposed Improvements to IGF Outcomes, in Keeping with the UN
> General Assembly Mandate". Although there was no consensus
> around this proposal, the ten suggested improvements reflect
> proposals that some other countries and other stakeholder groups
> have also previously aired. It is also one of the only
> relatively comprehensive written proposals on IGF outcomes to
> emerge from the Working Group, and therefore provides a
> convenient starting point for further discussion.
>
> It was suggested in the proposal that the MAG identify key
> questions for the IGF to deliberate upon, that a Working Group
> for each issue develop background material on it, to be
> considered by the IGF through workshops, a roundtable
> discussion, and possible inter-sessional meetings, and that
> discussion at the plenary level would result in an IGF report on
> each issue that would be transmitted to the CSTD and other
> relevant bodies for their action and feedback.
>
> Since it was not possible for the CSTD Working Group to fully
> discuss these suggestions, this workshop is intended to provide
> a space to do so more fully. The workshop will provide an
> opportunity for all stakeholders to consider the merits of the
> proposals as well as their shortcomings, and consider whether
> and how to take such proposals forward.
>
> Sponsors: IGC, others TBC (possibly ISOC Chennai)
>
> Organisers for IGC: Jeremy Malcolm and Marilia Maciel
>
> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)
>
> Speakers: TBC
>
> 2. Mapping Internet Governance
>
> This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance
> decisions are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and
> decision-making bodies? In what topic areas do they make
> decisions and with what kinds of impacts? How can individuals
> and stakeholder organizations make sure that their viewpoints
> and concerns are appropriately taken into consideration?
>
> Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the
> workshop aims at initiating a multistakeholder process for
> creating a document "Map of Internet Governance" which addresses
> these questions, and for thereafter keeping this document
> up-to-date.
>
> Sponsors: IGC, others TBC
>
> Organisers for IGC: Nobert Bollow (another needed!)
>
> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)
>
> Speakers: TBC
>
> 3. A possible framework for global Net Neutrality
>
> Network Neutrality has been one of the hottest Internet public
> policy issues in many countries, over the last year; US's
> Federal Communications Commission came out with NN guidelines
> that built over an agreement between two principal corporate
> players in the area, EU has bene conducting a pulbic hearing on
> the issue, French telecom regulatory authority have come out
> with a set of NN proposals and recommendations, Brazil a
> drafting a new civil rights framework for the Internet of which
> NN is an important issue. Earlier, in 2009, Norway came out with
> a much acclaimed set of NN guidelines.
>
> In the background, since Internet is essentially a global
> network and finally there must be common global norms on whether
> content can be prioritised across global digital highways
> including across global interconnection points) on payments by
> the content providers or not. Interesting, cross border network
> neutrality is a subject being dealt with by an experts committee
> on the Council of Europe. If we do not start talking about
> global norms, taking into consideration the interests and
> viewpoints of all involved, we will eventually be faced by a
> default regime of global traffic flows which will be whatever
> gets decided by the key economic powers. This is undemocratic
> way of subjecting the global public to the political choices of
> a few, most powerful. On the other hand, it is also true that
> even in the more powerful nations, policy making in this area
> may become hostage to the interests of multinational digital
> corporations at the cost of the national public interest. It it
> therefore of considerable value even for the more powerful
> countries to seek global norms on NN.
>
> The proposed workshop will explore the emerging progressive
> regimes in different countries and explore the possibility of
> coming up with a common set of global norms on NN.
>
> Sponsors: IGC, IT for Change (I presume), others TBC
>
> Organisers for IGC: Parminder Jeet Singh
>
> Remote moderator: TBC (volunteer needed!)
>
> Speakers: TBC
>
>
>
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