[governance] Invitation: WSIS Form workshop on governance

Wed May 11 23:21:20 EDT 2011

Hi

You can register for the remote participation at the link
http://wsisforum2011.pathable.com/index.html.

Thanks,
Jacob

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> 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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