[governance] FW: [IP] India proposes UN "takeover" of Internet

[Izumi AIZU]

I quite agree with Anriette's observation below.

IGC should  push the multi-stakeholder policy dialogue
as the overarching outcome of Tunis Agenda on Internet Governance
and enhance or improve this, not the other way around.

izumi

2011/10/31 Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>:
> Just giving other stakeholder groups the opportunity to give inputs is
> not enough and will not ensure effective multi-stakeholder
> participation. Good that there is a proposal to have a working group to
> discuss this.. but the overall structure and decision-flow proposed ends
> up with the GA and it is therefore by definition not multi-stakeholder.
>
> This might be OK for some of the decisions clustered in the rough scope
> of work for this committee.. but not for most of the work it appears to
> want to take on.
>
> I agree with Jeremy that the status quo is not working, but I don't see
> this committee being as open to civil society influence as you seem to
> think it might be. Similar modalities in the OECD is not achieving that
> degree of influence for civil society, and I don't see that this will
> either.
>
> Perhaps, with a much, much narrower and more focused scope of work such
> a committee could constitute an improvement on current
> 'intergovernmental' processes in the UN and the GAC.
>
> Anriette
>
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