AW: [governance] Internet G8 meeting

[McTim]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> Thanks Parminder and Avri.  Here's a consolidated draft with Avri's edits.
>
>     Basic courtesy stuff.....
>
>     We understand that the French Presidency of the G8 proposes to hold a G8
>     Internet meeting, immediately prior to the G8 Summit in ........,with a
> view
>     to prepare or influence the agenda for the G8 Summit regarding key
> global
>     Internet issues. We also understand that many heads of states of G 8
>     countries are expected to attend this meeting. The meeting is especially
>     important since in the past G 8 has set up the global agenda on many key
>     issues, especially in the information society arena.
>
>     We are very concerned about the manner in which the G 8 Internet meeting
> is
>     being organised which is ignoring current best practice in public policy
> making.
>     It also jettisons the principle of multistakeholder participation that
> has evolved
>     globally, especially in the area of Internet governance. It appears that
> the G8
>     meeting is organized by large Industry with access given only to
> industry and
>     government actors.  We have also understood that there is a linkage
> between
>     donations and invitations.
>
>     Big businesses already have a disproportionately large influence on
>     government bureaucracies. For governments to sanction a dedicated
> meeting
>     with top G8 leaders and officials to plan the global agenda for Internet
> related
>     policies is inappropriate. What is required is a discussion that
> includes civil
>     society actors

<insert>
and the Internet technical community
</insert>





, who will bring to the table the concerns of global
> public interest
>     derived from a diversity of people's, of many sections of society,
> interests and
>     concerns.
>
>     It is also pertinent to state here that since the Internet is
> essentially a
>     global phenomenon, policies framed together by the most powerful
> nations,
>     quite likely, will become the default global norm. This is most true for
>     architectural and economic issues, while the global impact on other
> areas
>     will also be substantial. It is therefore appropriate that G 8 countries
>     engage with the same, and other issues, of Internet policies at the more
>     democratic global forums where all countries

dlete "countries" above

and insert "stakeholders"

and I will be happy with the draft as edited by Avri.



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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