[governance] Invitation: WSIS Form workshop on governance

Avri Doria avri at ella.com
Wed May 11 15:10:06 EDT 2011 

Hi,

As someone else who cannot come to Geneva, I hope so.  I expect ITU would be as attentive to the need to remote participation as the IGF and other organization involved in Internet governance.

a.

On 11 May 2011, at 14:57, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> --Please note new email address--
>> 
>> ***************************************************
>> William J. Drake
>> International Fellow
>> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>> University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> william.drake at uzh.ch
>> www.williamdrake.org
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