[governance] IGC Principles

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Parminder:
 
It is in this regard that I had hoped that some focussed outreach activity could put us in an ongoing contact with other civil society groups and coalitions. I right now see know no practical way to go ahead with this, but that does put the responsibility of maintaining some kind of such outreach on the coordinators. 

Wolfgang:
The letter to the president of the 66th UN General Assembly with regard to the China-Russia Code of Conduct proposal was a good restart to reach out to other CS groups. In Nairobi we discussed that the IGC should start a discussion on its own set of IG principles; "inspired" by the principles proposed by COE, OECD, OSCE, NATO, G 8, IBSA, Shanghai Group, EU, US etc. As you have probably noticed some private sector groups have now also presented a list of principles. And the British Foreign Minister Hague has reinvented the wheel recently in London when he proposed "seven principles" and launched a "London Agenda" which will probably duplicate the IGF/EURODIG/IGFAsP/... process. I see that the start of such a "Civil Society Memorandum of Understanding on Internet Governance Principles" (CS-MoU-IGP) could become a useful excersise which at a certain stage would allow us also outreach to other CS organisations. Remember the succesful CS collaboration around the Geneva Declaration in 2003. I do not see any reason why we should not achieve a reasonable document - supported by 50+ CS organisations, which could be presented as a preliminary draft in May 2012 to the WSIS week in Geneva and on September 2012 to the 7th IGF in Baku.
 
Wolfgang
 
 
BTW, there was no (visible or documented) discussion around the Internet at the recent G 20 meeting in Cannes, althoug a number of G 20 participants have tabled global Internet initiatives in the previous months. Here is an article from a G 20 publication from Ronald Deibert from Toronto (who was also a speaker in a previous GIGANET meeting)
http://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/g20cannes2011-deibert.pdf
 
 
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