AW: [governance] Internet G8 meeting

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Mon May 9 04:52:37 EDT 2011 

Ian's edit works for me...

Perhaps we can get ICC/BASIS to sign on to this statement as well?

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> My only problem with the text is that it tells them what we think they
> should do without telling them why it would be advantageous to do it another
> way. So its not likely to draw a great deal of attention.
>
> To this end I would add another paragraph – perhaps after the “it is also
> pertinent” paragraph, along the lines of
>
>
> The issues we face with internet governance and internet developments are
> global in nature, and adequate solutions to the problems we face will need
> to involve all countries, as well as a wide range of business, civil society
> and technical interests. All of these inputs are essential to any sensible
> and effective developments in this area, and we urge a more holistic
> involvement of this wide range of key players.  Only in this way will we be
> able to develop adequate solutions.
>
> Ian Peter
> ________________________________
> From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Organization: Consumers International
> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:29:14 +0800
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Avri <avri at acm.org>
> Subject: Re: AW: [governance] Internet G8 meeting
>
>    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, 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 are present at an equal
>      footing. In this connection, there is the World Summit on the
> Information
>      Society mandated set of processes for dealing with pressing global
> Internet
>      related issues. Multistakeholder participation is an important part of
> these global
>      IG related processes. We see the proposed G 8 Interent meeting a
> significant
>      step backwards both for global democracy and for multistakeholder
>      participation.
>
>      We therefore request you, and other G 8 leaders, to make the proposed G
> 8
>      Internet meeting genuinely multistakeholder, following the model of the
> UN
>      IGF. We are impressed with the solid support provided by the G 8
> countries
>      for upholding a multistakeholder model for the IGF. The strong support
> that
>      many of G8 countries, including your own, have shown for full
> multistakeholder
>      participation makes this current decision to limit discussion to vested
> interests
>      of governments' industry partners is baffling and is unacceptable to
> many of
>      the users of the Internet.
>
>      closing and salutations.....
> --
>
>
>
> Dr Jeremy Malcolm
>  Project Coordinator
>  Consumers International
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