[governance] Agenda for IGF Nairobi - IGC proposals

[Fouad Bajwa]

We should begin with forwarding these suggestion well beforehand. Many
of the MAG members from developing regions will not be able to make it
to the upcoming MAG and open consultation meetings and will be mostly
around through remote participation.

My question regarding the topic of 'Network Neutrality' or now '
Mobile Network Neutrality' is that how should this be conveyed? NN is
easier to raise and pass through and have MNN listed in the sub-topics
because its a term almost everyone is aware of within the IGF
community but MNN will be a bit of confusion otherwise and might
create the same kind of resistance that happens around when the issue
around HR or IRP has been raised in the past? We know how things are
with new-terms in the process.

The 'development agenda for IG' should remain an important focus to be
included and I will sustain my position with regards to it and revive
the cross-community working group to organize it should we be able to
table it through.

'Cross border Issues and implications of IG' is a good topic and yes
CoE is discussing it with a major activity happening around April this
year on the issue and we can liaise with the CoE representatives to
table this issue as a main session topic.

Can we detail these topics out also to assist the MAG members from CS
to present, deliberate and sustain their ground.

An important thing that can be done is that we create a yearly focus
of topics that are also detailed out with all these references like
the one from Sala's message so that it can be used as a reference
point to make both statements, IGC position information and other
discussion pointers.

-- Best

Fouad




On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:20 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy
>
> I think we should two separate threads for the next IGF's agenda, which
> hopefully will be taken up in the Feb MAG meeting, and for our inputs into
> the WG on IGF improvements. Both are very distinct issues and separately
> quite important . So excuse me to have this thread on 'agenda for IGF
> Nairobi'.
>
> I am particularly eager to get this discussion going, because I feel that
> IGC should be doing much more on substantive issues, and its almost singular
> focus on process issues is what has kept it insulated from much of the civil
> society outside the IG realm, which compromises its legitimacy.
>
> In middle of the hot discussions on composition of the WG on IGF
> improvements, Sala posted an email on the (globally) historic FCC decision
> on network neutrality. While there are some good points there, there has
> been a sellout on excluding mobile Internet from regulations disallowing
> pay-for-priority. (To read this in the context of my earielr emails pointing
> to how mobile Internet in India is already breaching NN boundaries.)
>
> This FC decision has the potential of splitting up the Internet into the
> open fixed line variety and corporate content dominated mobile Internet. Why
> should there be two kinds of Internet? Why do freedoms and rights count on
> one kind and are not so important on the mobile Internet? What does this
> mean for developing countries where mobile is slated to become the by far
> the dominant platform for Internet?
>
> I also consider it very significant that it is perhaps the first time ever
> in any substantial policy matter of such huge consequence that the policy
> framework was largely written up as a result of negotiations between two
> largest corporate players in the area - google and verizon - and then the
> government rubber stamped it. If this the new global governance model we are
> moving towards? I keep getting this picture in my mind of our health policy
> frameworks soon being written by drug companies and health insurance
> companies, and maybe the large private hospital chains, if they are big
> enough, before plaint governments rubber stamp it. That is exactly what
> happened in the present instance vis a vis the new communication
> infrastructure of the Internet that came with such egalitarian promises.
>
> Anyway back to the topic,
>
> The next IGF just must take up 'Network Neutrality' or in fact ' Mobile
> Network Neutrality' as its key plenary theme. Otherwise IGF and the real
> world IG would be two very different worlds.
>
> It should also continue with the plenary topic - 'development agenda for IG'
>
> And I propose a third topic
>
> 'Cross border Issues and implications of IG'
>
> CoE is discussing it, no reason why IGF should not.
>
> Parminder
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> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> I would like us to move towards preparing a submission about the
> programme of the 2011 IGF meeting.  Simultaneously, we can discuss IGF
> improvements, which if minor could go into that submission, but
> otherwise can be input for our new CSTD working group on the IGF.
>
> This is an exercise that we have, of course, gone through before.  So it
> is useful for us to look at some previous submissions on the programme
> of the IGF and on improvements, and see what we can simply rewrite and
> reuse.  Here are relevant links:
>
> PROGRAMME:
>
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/8 (Hyderabad)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/5 (Sharm)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/26 (Sharm)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/32 (Sharm)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/34 (Vilnius)
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> IMPROVEMENTS:
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> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/6 (funding, deeper discussion, WGs)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/7 (format improvements, IGF as town-hall)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/9 (MAG improvements)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/30 (MAG, funding, intersessional work)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/33 (MAG, outputs, intersessional work)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/41 (MAG improvements, links from IGF)
> http://www.igcaucus.org/node/45 (outputs, difficult issues, virtual IGF)
>
> I would suggest that people go through these and pick out the highlights
> that they would like to reiterate... as well, of course, as contributing
> any new points in light of the changed landscape since last November.
>
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>
> --
> PK
>
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