[governance] Invitation: WSIS Form workshop on governance
Imran Ahmed Shah
ias_pk at yahoo.com
Wed May 11 16:45:27 EDT 2011
Thanks to Dr. William Drake
I would like to join the workshop from Pakistan Remotely.
Thanks
Imran Ahmed Shah
On Thu, 12 May 2011 00:54 PKT Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>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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