AW: [governance] Landmark decision by ITU Council on proposal for public consultation and open access

Sivasubramanian M isolatedn at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 14:02:54 EDT 2012 

While I welcome ITU's decision to partially open up, I wish to pose the
question that bothers me at the moment :  Why is the ITU becoming so nice
all of a sudden?

And I share Fahd Batayneh's caution on this development.

Sivasubramanian M.
 On Jul 14, 2012 10:14 PM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> During the WGIG time some academics - as Alejandro will remember - started
> to call for a general becnhmnarking of all - intergovernmental and
> international - organisations according to criteria like openess,
> transparency, legitimacy, accountability, membership, acess, diversity,
> bottom up PDP etc. The analysis was never done. Would be a good subject for
> Baku or a new "Dynamic Coalition on Transparency and Accountybility of
> International Internet Organisations".
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> wolfgang
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> Von: michael gurstein [mailto:gurstein at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Sa 14.07.2012 15:48
> An: 'Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch'; governance at lists.igcaucus.org; 'Izumi
> AIZU'
> Betreff: RE: [governance] Landmark decision by ITU Council on proposal for
> public consultation and open access
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> Good point Alejandro... to extend it a bit, I'm wondering whether we might
> rather begin a process of adopting the Open Government Partnership
> principles and process http://www.opengovpartnership.org/ here as
> benchmarks and something that the IGC might look to promote with other of
> the agencies with which it is in contact (the IGF being one...
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> The ICANN A&T Review may be rather more robust than the OGP one at this
> stage but the longer term OGP process is gathering a significant head of
> steam and including international agencies within that process would be, I
> think, a significant step for forward for CS overall (no reason we couldn't
> include both as part of the review/benchmarking process you are suggesting,
> which BTW would make an excellent Master's thesis or extended research
> essay for some appropriate grad student...
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> From: Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch [mailto:apisan at unam.mx]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 11:55 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Izumi AIZU; Michael Gurstein
> Subject: RE: [governance] Landmark decision by ITU Council on proposal for
> public consultation and open access
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> Izumi,
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> a creative approach, and one which would speak for consistency in this
> community, would be to set up a benchmark and see how far the ITU complies
> with it as the process takes place over the coming months.
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> One particularly relevant benchmark would be the Accountability and
> Transparency Review of ICANN or related documents, mostly the updates on
> how ICANN  has taken measures to comply with the recommendations of the
> ATRT. See if non-governmental participants have access to key documents,
> access to discussions, the ability to organize themselves, and impact on
> decisions.
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> We all know that ICANN needs to improve in all these aspects but it's a
> good benchmark. I've once graded several organizations related to WSIS.
> It's a complex exercise in evaluation but it can be done in a way that
> yields a few very clear results.
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> Yours,
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> Alejandro Pisanty
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> Enviado el: viernes, 13 de julio de 2012 14:49
> Hasta: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Michael Gurstein
> Asunto: Re: [governance] Landmark decision by ITU Council on proposal for
> public consultation and open access
>
> Wow. Any comments for IGC to react to this decision? Welcome statement?
>
> Further plan of action?
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> Izumi
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> 2012?7?14???? Michael Gurstein gurstein at gmail.com:
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> Landmark decision by ITU Council on proposal for public consultation and
> open access to key conference document: Online public platforms will be
> created to enable multi-stakeholder consultation....
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> http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/46.aspx
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