[governance] Organising for multiple forums
Ian Peter
ian.peter at ianpeter.com
Tue May 31 03:01:25 EDT 2011
Folks,
I¹m starting a new thread here, following from the many comments that have
been brought up here following particularly from e-G8 that we need to
organise to be able to represent civil society in more than one forum in
future as regards internet governance issues.
Wheras previously our main emphasis in Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) has
been on IGF, we now need adapt to the fact the IGF is no longer the only
forum or perhaps even the main one where internet governance issues (in
a wider understanding of the term, not a narrow ICANN/NRO one) are being
discussed.
In future there will be e-G8, eG20, IGF, and perhaps other UN affiliated or
more subject specific forums where there is a need for civil society
perspectives on internet governance to be presented and co-ordinated.
To me IGC, because of its wide representation and openness to differing
perspectives, is the obvious body to take on this wider and much larger
task. However, it is not capable at present of stretching that far for a
number of reasons.
So I do think we need to put some effort into changing our organisation to
give it the capability to represent civil society on internet governance
matters in multiple forums and through multiple voices.
I do not believe that we could undertake this necessary task without at
least a part time employee and some minimal travel for funding. In order to
receive such funding, we may also need to have a more formal structure or at
least an affiliation with a more formally constructed body able to provide
the administrative functions on our behalf.
I believe we will need to commence to act soon in this direction if we are
to fulfil our mandate in the broader internet governance arena. So I am
opening up this topic to get a general feeling as to how we might proceed
and whether people have specific suggestions. We may need some sort of task
force to work on this.
Just opening this up for general discussion. To me the priorities are
* a structure able to receive funding
* a funding source for at least part time secretarial functions and some
travel
* a realisation that the game is changing and we have to change too
That¹s my initial thoughts.
Ian Peter
From: Amali De Silva <amalidesilva at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 19:04:44 -0700 (PDT)
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>, Jeremy
Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum
Civil society plees for representation have been heard NYT article - needs
an organized input for future meetings - to echo others on this list ..
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/technology/30tech.html?pagewanted=1&ref=te
chnology
Amali De Silva - Mitchell ( personal note )
Vancouver Canada
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--- On Wed, 5/25/11, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>
> From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Received: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 2:22 AM
>
> Not sure that I would argue about abandoning e-G8 I think its quite useful
> if imbalanced, and is opening up some lines of communication with some
> excellent interventions and some good attendees.
>
> I¹d rather discuss how we could make IGF as relevant by attracting the same
> calibre of attendees. IGF government attendees are usually way down the
> picking line; the business reps are not quite CEOs of large players such as
> Paypal, Google and Facebook and similarly our civil society reps are not
> quite Jimmy Wales, John Perry Barlow etc.
>
> In other words, IGF has failed to attract high profile opinion leaders. If it
> continues as a second rate forum it will probably just fade away and no-one
> will notice. Which would be a pity IGF is far more balanced, strives to
> achieve global and balanced inputs, and could be a really relevant and useful
> vehicle.
>
> From our point of view, I am interested in how we can strengthen our inputs by
> involving and communicating with some of the higher profile civil society
> people who are not so involved with us at present.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
>
> From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Organization: Consumers International
> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:32:00 +0800
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Roland Perry
> <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum
>
> On 25/05/11 14:16, Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <B97535D24829433AB1D5ECAC3B6AA468 at userPC>, at 06:53:13 on Wed, 25
>> May 2011, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com
>> <http://ca.mc1123.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gurstein@gmail.com> > writes
>>
>>
>>> Who is the host for next year's meeting?
>>>
>>
>> According to Wikipedia:
>>
>> "Each calendar year, the responsibility of hosting the G8 rotates through
>> the member states in the following order: France, United States, United
>> Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada."
>>
>
> We could go further than we have, and argue that there should be no e-G8 next
> year, even if it were opened to broader participation, since it is duplicative
> and it distracts attention from other fora in which civil society's resources
> are already thinly enough spread.
>
>
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