[governance] Three IGC workshops (summary)

[Yuliya Morenets]

The same for me, would be happy to be reomte moerator for one of the
sessions.

Best regards,
Yuliya Morenets

Le 11/4/2011, "Raquel Gatto" <raquelgatto at uol.com.br> a écrit:

>+1, I would be glad to help with remote moderation for the IGC WSs. Â  
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>Em 11/04/2011 02:45, Ginger Paque < gpaque at gmail.com > escreveu: 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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