[governance] Invitation: National IG Mechanisms - Looking at Some Key Design Issues

[michael gurstein]

You are cordially invited to Workshop discussing National IG Mechanisms -
Looking at Some Key Design Issues to be held on Day 3--Nov. 8, 14.30 to
16.00.

Such is the unique nature of the Internet that its governance often calls
for institutional innovations. The proposed workshop will look at a range of
national level IG mechanisms across the world. While the discussion will
refer to good models and practices in different countries, it will not be
organized around simple show-casing of different national IG mechanisms. The
discussion will centre around key contexts, requirements, challenges and
possibilities. It will be directed towards examining key institutional
design issues, functions and outcomes with regard to national level IG
mechanisms with the purpose to help countries make appropriate decisions in
their specific contexts.

Some of these are;
- How should the national commons of Internet resources be managed?
- What kinds of mechanisms are appropriate for technical matters, what for
those that are partly technical and partly social, and what for larger
public policy matters, requiring more political responses?
- Should there be a common single mechanism to address all the above kinds
of issues, or different ones? How to coordinate different mechanisms, and
different parts of the national governance machinery dealing with different
aspects or kinds of IG issues? 

- How to ensure meaningful participation of all stakeholders in a manner
that focuses on public interest?
- How can the surplus from domain name registration fees etc collected by
national IG agencies be employed for public interest purposes, especially,
for taking up Internet related research.

Organiser(s) Name: 
Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore - Civil Society
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - National level governance body
Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences - Academic
Insitution
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training
(CCIRDT), Vancouver, BC CANADA - Civil Society
Instituto NUPEF , Rio de Janeiro - Civil Society
IT for Change, Bangalore - Civil Society

Carlos Afonso, Insituto NUPEF, Board Member, Brazilian Steering Commitee
Emily Taylor, Independent Consultant, Formerly with NOMINET
Alice Munya, Chairperson, Kenya Internet Steering Commitee
Victor Tishchenko, Institute of Advanced Systems, Russian Academy of
Sciences,
Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society,
Moderator, Michael Gurstein, Centre for Community Informatics Research,
Development and Training, Canada

Concise Description of Workshop: 

Such is the unique nature of the Internet that its governance often calls
for institutional innovations. The proposed workshop will look at a range of
national level IG mechanisms across the world. While the discussion will
refer to good models and practices in different countries, it will not be
organized around simple show-casing of different national IG mechanisms. The
discussion will centre around key contexts, requirements, challenges and
possibilities. It will be directed towards examining key institutional
design issues, functions and outcomes with regard to national level IG
mechanisms with the purpose to help countries make appropriate decisions in
their specific contexts.

Some of these are;
- How should the national commons of Internet resources be managed?
- What kinds of mechanisms are appropriate for technical matters, what for
those that are partly technical and partly social, and what for larger
public policy matters, requiring more political responses?
- Should there be a common single mechanism to address all the above kinds
of issues, or different ones? How to coordinate different mechanisms, and
different parts of the national governance machinery dealing with different
aspects or kinds of IG issues? 

- How to ensure meaningful participation of all stakeholders in a manner
that focuses on public interest?
- How can the surplus from domain name registration fees etc collected by
national IG agencies be employed for public interest purposes, especially,
for taking up Internet related research.

Organiser(s) Name: 
Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore - Civil Society
Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - National level governance body
Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences - Academic
Insitution
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training
(CCIRDT), Vancouver, BC CANADA - Civil Society
Instituto NUPEF , Rio de Janeiro - Civil Society
IT for Change, Bangalore - Civil Society

Carlos Afonso, Insituto NUPEF, Board Member, Brazilian Steering Commitee
Emily Taylor, Independent Consultant, Formerly with NOMINET
Alice Munya, Chairperson, Kenya Internet Steering Commitee
Victor Tishchenko, Institute of Advanced Systems, Russian Academy of
Sciences,
Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society,
Moderator, Michael Gurstein, Centre for Community Informatics Research,
Development and Training, Canada


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