AW: [governance] Landmark decision by ITU Council on proposal for public consultation and open access
Brett Solomon
brett at accessnow.org
Sat Jul 14 15:53:35 EDT 2012
+1
We see this as a broader rejection of openness more than a commitment to
it, despite the ITU's "landmark" announcement language. For those
interested see our short blog response to ITU decision:
https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/itu-governing-council-to-post-some-planning-materials-rejects-open-access
I note also Public Knowledge's response:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-disappointed-itu-documents-remain
Brett
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> 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".
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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...
>>
>>
>>
>> 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...
>>
>>
>>
>> M
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> Izumi,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>>
>>
>> Alejandro Pisanty
>>
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>> Desde: izumiaizu at gmail.com [izumiaizu at gmail.com] en nombre de Izumi AIZU
>> [iza at anr.org]
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Izumi
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012?7?14???? Michael Gurstein gurstein at gmail.com:
>>
>> 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....
>>
>> http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2012/46.aspx
>>
>> M
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>> >> Izumi Aizu <<
>> Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo
>> Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
>> Japan
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