[governance] IGF and Enhanced Cooperation

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Lee

The problem with this is that we are not likely to get government
participation, and, I really believe that we do need to get particularly
developing country government voices. If the EC meeting overlaps with
the ministerial we are more likely to get gov participants.

We have very good participation in the human rights pre-event we
convened last year.

But a post IGF civil society meeting could still be a very good idea..
to focus on the views and debates among civil society on EC.

Anriette


On 29/05/2012 16:53, Lee W McKnight wrote:
> If I may make a suggestion:  
> 
> Saturday Nov. 10th is a travel day for folks returning from IGF 2012. Rather than jam into a crowded schedule  before the event, invite people to stick around after IGF 2012, for an extraordinary session on enhanced cooperation in Internet Governance. A through discussion of Parminder's views and others could be among those featured; we need some controversy to drum up interest. 
> 
> That session whatever it is called would of course be loosely associated with, but not sanctioned by IGF. Hence there is no need to run by the MAG except as a courtesy. It could be hosted by IGC and staffed by attending CS groups.
> 
> We  would of course invite the technical and business communities, governments, and international organizations, each in their respective roles ; ). But seeing as it is an unofficial event, everyone can relax since nothing official can happen. 
> 
> Except perhaps some endorsement of Wolfgang's Internet Declaration, and/or IRP's 10 Internet Rights and Principles. For examples of two possible outcomes. (And because of the fear/worry we might actually do/say something, we can expect a reasonably MSH attendance. Even if the event itself is explicitly CS putting its foot down and insisting we will not be left out of the discussion/definition of enhanced cooperation.)
> 
> The beauty of this in my opinion is noone can object to folks getting together on a Saturday, and being extra nerdy and trying to make sense of the inscrutable.   
> And IGC need ask noone's permission. We would need a venue and someone or some virtual committee to volunteer to pull together. Since the CSTD thing May 18 seems to be agreed to have been a waste of time, why not show folks how CS - enhances cooperation.
> 
> I'm only volunteering my 2 cents, and to remotely participate from sunny Syracuse. 
> 
> Lee
> 
> PS: The worst headline we can anticipate is 'People threaten to provide oversight to the Internet' or some such, so politically speaking I think we can get away with this.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Roland Perry [roland at internetpolicyagency.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:54 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGF and Enhanced Cooperation
> 
> In message <463E2160-45C0-42EE-AE0F-810B41F955F1 at acm.org>, at 07:40:58
> on Tue, 29 May 2012, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> writes
>> And we were told quite specifically by the hosts that their Ministerial
>> had NOTHING to do with the IGF, so it makes no sense to let that stand
>> in the way of anything.
> 
> Any diary clash that prevents an important stakeholder group from
> attending should be taken into consideration.
> 
> It's irrelevant whether or not the clashing event is part of the same
> process. eg If there was a special intersessional ICANN GAC meeting that
> Monday, which is certainly not part of the IGF, it would be rude to
> arrange an event to clash with it.
> --
> Roland Perry
> 
> 

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