AW: [governance] Internet G8 meeting

[parminder]

On Thursday 05 May 2011 01:58 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> On Thu, 05 May 2011 14:43:18 +0700, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>
> There seems to be agreement that the IGC should respond (and I concur 
> with this).  I would like to invite Wolfgang or Parminder to volunteer 
> to write a first draft.  If they do not have time, I should be able to 
> put something together as a draft based on their contributions to the 
> list.
>
While I can try to put together some text, i am not sure what really do 
we want to say. If it is *only* an appeal to make the G 8 meeting more 
multistakeholder, as I have argued earlier, I am not interested. For me, 
our communication should clearly make the point that in any discussion 
on the kind of issues that the G8 meeting is taking up, all countries 
must be included on an equal footing. And this is best done in a UN 
forum rather than at such meeting of most powerful nations. We can refer 
to the inherently global nature of the Internet and how policy decisions 
taken by the most powerful countries by default largely become 
applicable to the whole world.

We can then refer to the institutional forms that have been mandated by 
the WSIS - enhanced cooperation and the IGF, and refer to subsequent UN 
Gen Assembly  resolutions that the two processes are complementary. Thus 
any global public policy development should not only involve all 
countries and all stakeholders, it should also  always and continually 
remain connected to the IGF as the agora where public opinion on key IG 
issues is formed and shared. Something to this effect.

Now, if these elements look ok, I can do some drafting. Thanks, Parminder

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