[governance] Internet G8 meeting

Fri May 6 05:23:45 EDT 2011

This is an important information and extreme relevance. Thank you Wolf
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2011/5/4 "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>

> Hi everybody
>
> the Clinton administration introduced the Cyber-Issues into the G 7 and UN
> with its Global Information Infrastructure Initiative (GII) from 1994 (which
> enlarged the US National Information Infrastructure Initiative (NII) from
> September 1993. Al Gore himself presented the idea of the GII (which did not
> include issues like DNS management) to the ITU Development Conference in
> Buenos Aires in 1994.
> http://habitat.igc.org/ics/gii-itu/wtdc-bad.html.
>
> Later Al Gore presented this to a G 7 summit in Brussels in 1995, where
> also a so-called "Global Business Round Table" took place in parallel (which
> led later to the establishmend of the Global Business Dialogue on
> eCommerce/GBDe). After the Brussels meeting the G 7 (later the G 8)
> continued to work on this issue which finally produced the G 8 Okinawa
> Declaration from 2000 when the G 8 established to Digital Opportunity Task
> Froce (DotForce).
> http://www.undp.sk/uploads/Okinawa%20charter.pdf
>
> The G 8 DotForce Initiative was countered by an ECOSOC ministerial meeting
> in 2001 (a lot of UN member states felt excluded from the G7/8 process in
> Okinawa) and the UN established the UN ICT Task Force (UNICTTF). The Bush
> administration had the cyberissues not on its priority list so the G 8
> DotForce became irrelevant and was later more or less integrated into the
> UNICTTF, which struggled after 2002 to become relevant in the WSIS process.
> UNICTTF did play a role in the beginning of WSIS, but lost its momentum
> later. The mandate ended in 2005 and it was substituted by the Global
> Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) which is nothing more than a paper
> tiger with no real identity and function.
>
> With regard to the forthcoming G 8 meeting in Deauville, this is indeed a
> top down, closed and exclusive event which irgnores totally all results of
> the Internet Governance debate of the last decade. This should be widely and
> loudly critisized. We discussed this with the French GAC representative in
> Strasbourg and he explained us that the governmental people in France doing
> ICANN and IGF issues, are widely disconnected from the sherpas, nominated by
> the president, to prepare the Deauville summit. This is a very serious
> point, at least in my eyes.
>
> In the ICANN Studienkreis meeting last week in Budapest, the discussion
> went one step further, flagging the issue that there is generally a deep gap
> within (nearly all) governments between governmental agencies/ministeries
> dealing with Cybersecurity and departments dealing with the Internet
> Economy, with Human Rights in Cyberspace and generally with Internet
> Governance (ICANN/IGF etc.). As a result one and the same government talks
> with different voices and takes different positions in different bodies.
>
> One conclusion from this is to call for governments to bring their house in
> order and to reach a higher level of inter-agency coordination before they
> enter into a multistakeholder dialogue. Otherwiese they undermine the trust
> of the non-governmental stakeholders into governmental actions if one
> representative of a government supports multistakeholderism in one
> institution, but another body of the same government ingnores totally the
> multistakeholder principle when planning events like the forthcoming one in
> Paris/Deauville.
>
> We should not forget that the WSIS/WGIG Internet Governance definition,
> which gives all stakeholder a role and calls for shared policy and rules
> development and decision making, was adopted by the heads of states of 190+
> UN member states in Tunis in November 2005. Governments of the world
> commited themselves to the multistakeholder approach in Internet Governance.
> The French government, host of the G 8, obviously ignores this. Somebody
> should tell this to the president of this republic.
>
> Wolfgang
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