[governance] Instituto Nupef on IBSA Rio recommendations

[Milton L Mueller]

A belated thank you for this response to the IBSA document. Good to know that Nupef refuses to be coopted. 
Is there a web site link to this statement?

Milton L. Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Internet Governance Project
http://blog.internetgovernance.org 




> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On
> Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 5:24 AM
> To: WSIS Internet Governance Caucus
> Subject: [governance] Instituto Nupef on IBSA Rio recommendations
> 
> Dear people,
> 
> Regarding the recent recommendations (attached as PDF) produced by the
> governments of India, Brazil and South Africa in the context of the IBSA
> initiative (www.ibsa-trilateral.org) and as a consequence of a meeting
> on Internet Governance held by IBSA in Rio de Janeiro on Sept.02, 2011,
>   Instituto Nupef has the following comments:
> 
> The document is presented as the result of an IBSA Multistakeholder
> meeting and all over the document the meeting is presented as the
> subject who puts forward the recommendations. We must clarify that there
> was no such multistakeholder meeting -  Nupef was invited to participate
> in the IBSA seminar as a Brazilian NGO which has views and experiences
> to share on the issues of Internet Governance. Nupef has never expected
> that a document would be produced after the meeting, there was no
> deliberation on concrete outcomes and no process that would lead to a
> production of a final document endorsed by those who were present. In
> our point of view, this subject in the text that presents the proposal -
> "the meeting" - doesn't exist;
> 
> Nupef is against the creation of a new body "located within the UN
> system" dedicated to undertake the roles described in the IBSA
> recommendations;
> 
> Nupef doesn't see how such body could "integrate and oversee the bodies
> responsible for technical and operational functioning of the Internet,
> including global standards setting;" and why this would be necessary;
> 
> Nupef recognizes that the IBSA recommendations might be an interesting
> starting point for a discussion if reformulated and improved, not only
> in its content but also in the process of its further development,
> including a wider range of civil society voices in an open,
> participatory and transparent process;
> 
> Nupef agrees that close collaboration and concrete action is needed in
> the field of Internet Governance and strongly suggests that existing
> dialogue spaces for civil society, government and private sector - such
> as the CGI.br - and existing communications spaces and structures - such
> as e-mail lists and foras that have been hosting this kind of
> collaborative reflection and action for several years - be the space for
> this exchange and deliberation.
> 
> Nairobi, 28-Sept-2011
> Graciela Selaimen
> Carlos A. Afonso (c.a.)
> Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> www.nupef.org.br
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