[governance] Three IGC workshops (summary)

[Graciela Selaimen]

Dear Jeremy, Parminder and all,

Instituto Nupef would like to collaborate in the organization of the 
workshop on Net Neutrality.

regards,
Graciela

Em 4/11/11 2:11 AM, Jeremy Malcolm escreveu:
> 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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