[governance] Follow-up on principles, pre-event, ECTF, WG: need for focus by IGC

[Norbert Bollow]

Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> >
> > While I'm in strong agreement with the view that "now is the time to
> > just do it", I would say that pretty much by definition, Enhanced
> > Cooperation can't be done without active involvement of at least some
> > governments.
> 
> That seems like a pretty lacking definition.

Lacking or not, this notion "Enhanced Cooperation" that we're talking
about is from the Tunis Agenda [1] (an international soft law
instrument, i.e. it's a text that a lot of governments have
negotiated and explicitly agreed to, even if it isn't considered
international law), where it is introduced in para 69 as follows:

  "We further recognize the need for enhanced cooperation in the
  future, to enable governments, on an equal footing, to carry out
  their roles and responsibilities, in international public policy
  issues pertaining to the Internet, but not in the day-to-day
  technical and operational matters, that do not impact on
  international public policy issues."

[1] http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html

I'm absolutely not opposed to enhancing cooperation among civil
society actors etc (although some are reasonably well-coordinated
already, for example ACTA was defeated in the European Parliament
not by chance but after a lot of hard, well-coordinated work), but the
problem that I'm right now seeking to address (an Internet-Draft with
a specific proposal will probably be out next week or so) is a specific
need for "Enhanced Cooperation" that specifically governments have,
IMO quite legitimately, expressed.

> Today we have a variety of examples of how large-scale grassroots
> and civic pressure can define a framework for cooperation and drive
> government involvement, rather than waiting for government
> inovlvement before something can happen.

Do you have any examples where the result is successful cooperation
between governments, with the governments cooperating in ways that are
informed by truly open multistakeholder dialogue?

Greetings,
Norbert

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