[governance] IBSA - Tshwane Declaration

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Hi Bill

I think your response is a bit hasty. There are serious gaps.. e.g. the
lack of emphasis on multi-stakeholder participation pointed out by
Sivasubramanian, but overall I think the section on IG shows very
clearly that the IBSA government representatives took reactions at the
IGF to their proposal very seriously.

This is a very different text to what had been proposed, and clearly
indicates that there will be further discussion on the September
meeting's recommendations, which is what civil society organisations
from the three countries requested.

Multi-stakeholder participation in the observatory is not mentioned, but
it is also not excluded. My assumption is that this was an oversight,
rather than a deliberate attempt to make it 'intergovernmental'.

However, I think that the absence of multi-stakeholder participation as
a principle is very disappointing. It should have been mentioned upfront
in the section on global governance reform. There are other references
to participation from stakeholders.. but that is not enough.

Human rights text is fairly good, as is the IP text.

Need to still read the whole document carefully.

Anriette



On 19/10/11 18:24, William Drake wrote:
> 
> 
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 4:55 AM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> 
>> The leaders took note of the recommendations of the IBSA Workshop on
>> Global Internet Governance convened in Rio de Janeiro on 1-2 September
>> 2011 and resolved to jointly undertake necessary follow-up action. 
> 
> The leaders took no note of the global community's reactions to those
> recommendations during the Internet Governance Forum convened in Nairobi
> on 27-30 September 2011 and resolved to pretend it didn't happen.
> 
>> 55. The Leaders emphasized Internet Governance as a key strategic area
>> that requires close collaboration and concrete action. In this
>> context, it recommended the establishment of an IBSA Internet
>> Governance and Development Observatory that should be tasked to
>> monitor developments on global Internet Governance and provide regular
>> updates and analyses from the perspective of developing countries.
> 
> The leaders agreed that their initiative is really about IBSA rather
> than about the Internet, so global multistakeholder participation in the
> Observatory is not needed.

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