[governance] Meeting with EC/EP: short report

[parminder]

On Monday 12 November 2012 05:42 PM, Tijani BEN JEMAA wrote:
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> Parminder and Marie Georges,
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> The meeting was organized as a round table where everyone take the 
> floor for a short time to express him/herself. All was about the 
> internet governance but we didn’t take a specific item, and discussed it.
>
> As for the “Intermediate international standards”, they were presented 
> as a third layer between the international general principles and the 
> national laws. They described it to be more simplified and more 
> acceptable for all the countries so that they may be applied by all at 
> the national level. My reaction to this concept was that I find it is 
> a good idea to elaborate more simple and more precise standards, but I 
> don’t think it will be a third layer; the so-called “intermediate 
> standards” can only be the same layer as the international general 
> principles since they will be international agreements, and their use 
> at the national level will still depend on the willing of the 
> governments.
>

Dear Tijani,

Thanks for the clarification. I mostly agree with your views. However, 
there may be some use in developing some more practical and accessible 
principles for IG from larger accepted international principles like 
human rights. Such principles can directly inform public policies 
related to the Internet, which in turn can help shape the development of 
the Internet as per global public interest, and not the interests of the 
most powerful.

However, the real issue is; how should these Internet principles , or 
principles for Internet related policies, (the so called third layer) be 
developed. Should plurilateral bodies of rich countires do it for the 
whole world, as OECD and CoE have done recently . Or should this be done 
through processes that equally involve all countries, with greatest 
possible participation of all stakeholders. I would expect civil 
society, and IGC, to take a clear view on this issue.

parminder
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> *Tijani BEN JEMAA*
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> Executive Director
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> Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (*FMAI*)
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> *De :*parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 novembre 2012 22:00
> *À :* governance at lists.igcaucus.org; tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn
> *Objet :* Re: [governance] Meeting with EC/EP: short report
>
> On Saturday 10 November 2012 03:32 AM, tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn 
> <mailto:tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn> wrote:
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>     Dear all,
>
>     Sorry for the late report: No Internet access in the meeting rooms.
>
>     snip
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>     The European parliamentarians expressed their support to all those
>     issues, and introduced a concept of intermediate international
>     standards accepted by all and easily applicable, to be between the
>     international general principals such as the human rights
>     declaration and the national laws.
>
>
> Very interested to know what kind of international standards they were 
> referring to that fall in between " general principals such as the 
> human rights declaration and the national laws". Can someone throw 
> some light on the nuances involved here.
>
> parminder
>
>
> Dioplo Foundation emphasized the importance of the Governments’ 
> commitment to support the IGF and its multi-stakeholder model
>
> The meeting was held in a warm and friendly ambience.
>
> Y.J. PARK and Tijani BEN JEMAA
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> Tijani BEN JEMAA
> Executive Director
> Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations
> Phone: +216 70 825 231
> Mobile: +216 98 330 114
> Fax: +216 70 825 231
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