[governance] Invitation: WSIS Form workshop on governance

Wed May 11 14:57:57 EDT 2011

This is excellent. Will there be remote participation?

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:51 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
> While I gather the level of meatspace participation by IGF types will be
> rather low next week in Geneva, all those who are making the trip would be
> most welcome to attend a workshop I've organized in the WSIS Forum.  There
> will be remote participation available as well through the forum
> site http://wsisforum2011.pathable.com/index.html (it seems you have
> register for this), a twitter feed, and so on.
> The workshop will be held in the Governing Body Room (seems appropriate)
> of The International Labor Organization from 9:00-10:30 Tuesday 17 May 2011.
>  The idea is to contribute to the inchoate debate on what kinds of
> institutional structures would be most appropriate in tackling key global
> governance issues going forward.  For example, rather than just saying on
> political/normative grounds that we prefer multistakeholderism or
> intergovernmentalism, it would be useful to draw on the relevant analytical
> literatures and practical experiences to arrive at some principled bases for
> selecting institutional arrangements that are optimized to particular
> functional problems.  This would seem to be of particular relevance at a
> time when parties are proposing new or revised global governance
> arrangements on various fronts, e.g. enhanced cooperation, the IANA
> contract, the COE initiative on crossborder Internet harm, the governance of
> the Internet of Things, the debate on revising the International Telecom
> Regulations to cover the Internet, the development agenda discussion,
> current intellectual property and digital trade initiatives, even the DC on
> Rights and Principles initiative for that matter.  What models are best
> suited to which of these issue-sets?
>
> Description follows:
> Institutional Choice in Global Communications Governance
>
> The contemporary global communications order is characterized by a
> significant increase in the number and variety of governance
> arrangements.  Traditional multilateralism has been supplemented by
> plurilateral, regional, and bilateral intergovernmentalism; and by
> unilateralism, co-regulation, industry self-governance,
> multistakeholder governance, and the coordinated convergence of independent
> practices.  These ordering mechanisms vary greatly in terms of the
> collective action problems they address and the institutional attributes
> they possess.
>
> How do we conduct a principled evaluation of alternative models’ relative
> merits and potential “fit” with current and emerging governance
> challenges?  What are their respective strengths and weaknesses in terms of
> cross-cutting objectives like equity, efficiency,
> transparency, accountability, inclusiveness, development-friendliness,
> and public interest orientation?  Are there any generalizable lessons that
> they could learn from one another?  How well do today’s mechanisms cohere
> into an strong and effective global governance architecture?  This
> workshop will seek to advance the holistic assessment of these and related
> questions and to assess them in relation to key cases of contemporary ICT
> global governance.
>
> Speakers
>
> Dr. William J. Drake  [organizer & moderator]
> International Fellow, Media Change & Innovation Division
> Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research
> University of Zurich, Switzerland
>
> Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen
> Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications
> South Africa
>
> Mr. Alvaro Galvani
> Head, Division of Information Society, Ministry of External Relations
> Government of Brazil
>
> Mr. Markus Kummer
> Vice President of Public Policy, The Internet Society
> Switzerland
>
> Prof. Michael Latzer
> Chair, Media Change & Innovation Division
> Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research
> University of Zurich, Switzerland
>
> Ms. Nermine El Saadany
> Director of International Relations Division, Ministry of Communications and
> Information Technology
> Government of Egypt
>
> Mr. Thomas Schneider
> Deputy Head of International Relations Service, Federal Office of
> Communications
> Government of Switzerland
>
> We are hoping for a lively interactive discussion with no serial talking
> head presentations of pre-prepared speeches and ample time for interventions
> from the floor and remote.  So if this is of interest, please do join us.
> I might add that this workshop is linked to a similarly constructed one I've
> proposed for Nairobi, although that one would have a somewhat different
> panel-line up and focus a bit more narrowly on global
> IG. http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2011View&wspid=178  It
> should be interesting and instructive to address roughly the same issues in
> the two different venues with two different audiences…
> Best,
> Bill
>
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>
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> William J. Drake
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> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
> University of Zurich, Switzerland
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