[governance] Government involvement in Internet governance on November 4

[Baudouin SCHOMBE]

Hello
With regard to the African experience, if that is more complex. Delegations
to these meetings are constantly changing depending on whether the
government changes or is revised. In most cases, these are people without
any skill or when the report went to the hierarchy is not published or made
​​available to others. The principle of "multistakeholder" suffers in
some countries
where there is no framework for consultation or not respected.
The height of the problems in africa any initiative should be brought to the
attention of the authorities, specifically with regard to ICT.
 This is why we insist so much for the support and strengthening of national
IGF.

SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN

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2011/10/26 Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>

> Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:
>
> > Involving governments in the management of Internet is one of the
> > worst ideas, ever.
>
> I agree, although I'd describe the reasons differently than you do.
> (I have a feeling that we might be very much in agreement, just
> inclined to express things differently.)
>
> From my perspective, the key problem with involving governments in
> core technical Internet governance and management is that they don't
> understand the technical and architectural concerns nor the processes
> for building technical consensus. I'd very much like to see government
> representatives with this important background knowledge becoming
> involved in all the various Internet governance institutions. In fact,
> with the exception of ICANN where the government representatives are
> fenced into their own little walled garden called GAC, in all the
> other core Internet governance fora there's nothing to hinder the
> effective participation of government representatives besides their
> lack of knowledge and capacity, i.e. the goverments' failure to hire
> people as their representatives who are able to interact in these fora
> competently and effectively.
>
> What is terrible is the idea of giving governments increased authority
> over the Internet without them having the prerequisite understanding,
> respect for technical consensus building processes and ability to
> effectively participate there. Governance by governments who are
> ignorant in this respect would result in the governments making either
> "political" decisions that are technically and systemically bad,
> likely resulting in severe degradation of fundamental human rights
> such as freedom of expression, and/or decisions that unreasonably
> favor the interests of big corporations who would spend significant
> money on lobbying for that to happen.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
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