[governance] Invitation: WSIS Form workshop on governance

Wed May 11 15:54:05 EDT 2011

If each of in our regions make the request known through the ITU
Pacific Rep, or ITU Asia etc, they can raise our request for remote
participation. I will ask Gisa from this end.

Sala

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
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