[governance] Instituto Nupef on IBSA Rio recommendations

[Carlos A. Afonso]

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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