[governance] Stakeholder Participation in the Enhanced Cooperation Meeting in Geneva

Tue May 8 04:08:13 EDT 2012

Dear Bill, Adam and all

The agenda is very basic. I will post it below. Parminder and I have
both been asked to speak.  APC will post our basic input here as soon as
we have had a chance to present it to members first.

Basically my idea is to shift the discussion towards the involvement of
civil society in EC and rather than just the usual involvement of
governments. My gut reaction to EC is that there is all this dispute
about the involvements from States and while this is kind of going
nowhere, there appears to be less cooperation and more concentration of
power among large companies, rich country governments, and established
IG 'institutions'.

I hope this will complement Parminder's input which I hope will focus on
the imbalances in governmental involvement from governments in the north
(who tend to say they don't want control, but they already have it) and
governments in the south (who say they want more control and who don't
have much at global level, and who are not demonstrating, consistently,
good use of the control they do have at national level - in my view).

A serious discussion on what governments responsibilities are and of
WHAT they need to be involved in would be useful in my view.

And then finally, and I would appreciate IGC input on this.. among APC
staff we have had a discussion of the parameters of EC. Is EC just
something we should be talking about at global level, or also at
national level.

I feel stongly that we need to take the discussion to EC in IG at
national level. And this should touch on global IG issues (how countries
engage, whether there is capacity building, consultation, etc. around
involvement in global issues/process) as well as on national IG issues.

Anriette

11:00-
13:00
Welcoming remarks by the Chair of the CSTD, Mr. Fortunato de la Peña
■ Address by: Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
■ Address by: Mr. Nigel Hickson, Vice President for Europe, ICANN
■ Address by: Mr. Markus Kummer, Vice President Public Policy, Internet
Society
■ Address by: Mr. Jimson Olufuye, Vice-Chairman, Africa Region, World
Information Technology and Services Alliance
■ Address by: Mr. Parminder Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change
■ Address by: Ms. Marilyn Cade, CEO, mCADE LLC
■ Address by: Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director, Association
for Progressive Communications
15:00-
18:00
General discussion

On 08/05/12 09:06, Adam Peake wrote:
> Could you give a pointer to the agenda.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:55 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch
> <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
> 
>     Just wondering if we want to do anything about this?  The draft
>     program has a couple of IGCers as speakers but no clarity on rules
>     of engagement for other attendees…?
> 
>     Best,
> 
>     Bill
> 
> 
>     On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:05 AM, William Drake wrote:
> 
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     As you know, there will be an enhanced cooperation consultation on
>>     18 May in Geneva, following the IGF consultations and MAG
>>     meeting. http://archive.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=6227&lang=1
>>     <http://archive.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=6227&lang=1>
>>      
>>     It would be very important that all stakeholders are able to
>>     intervene and contribute freely (but strategically) during this
>>     consultation, rather than have to sit silently on the sidelines or
>>     be relegated to collective brief interventions at the end of each
>>     session.  I imagine that ICC (business) and ISOC (TC) will be
>>     contacting the CSTD secretariat to make such a request.  On behalf
>>     of civil society, the IGC should do the same.
>>
>>     Assuming people agree with the proposition, may I suggest that the
>>     co-coordinators take a crack at drafting a one or two paragraph
>>     letter to Mongi to this effect?  Probably it would be better to do
>>     it sooner than later, as the secretariat would then need to pass
>>     the request along to governments etc…
>>
>>     Best,
>>
>>     Bill
>>
>>     ***************************************************
>>     William J. Drake
>>     International Fellow & Lecturer
>>     Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>     University of Zurich, Switzerland
>>     william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>
>>     www.mediachange.ch/people/william-j-drake
>>     <http://www.mediachange.ch/people/william-j-drake>
>>     www.williamdrake.org <http://www.williamdrake.org>
>>     ****************************************************
>>
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