[governance] Meeting with EC/EP: short report

Jovan Kurbalija jovank at diplomacy.edu
Tue Nov 13 08:03:34 EST 2012


It is fine. This slight ambiguity is tolerable. Regards, Jovan

On 11/13/12 1:56 PM, Tijani BEN JEMAA wrote:
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> Thank you Jovan for your precision.
>
> By “Dioplo Foundation emphasized the importance of the Governments’ 
> commitment to support the IGF and its multi-stakeholder model” I meant 
> supporting IGF and its multi-stakeholder model by all means including 
> their active participation in the substance. If it wasn’t clear, I 
> apologize.
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> *De :*governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org 
> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] *De la part de* Jovan 
> Kurbalija
> *Envoyé :* mardi 13 novembre 2012 11:55
> *À :* governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> *Objet :* Re: [governance] Meeting with EC/EP: short report
>
> Thank you, Tijani, for a very useful summary.  I have just one 
> clarification on my statement. While I agree that governments should 
> /support/ the multistakeholder model, my main point is that we must 
> ensure more /government participation /in the IGF.
>
> In Internet governance, governments are the 'new kids on the block', 
> while in other international regimes, it was civil society and 
> business that had to carve out a space in existing inter-governmental 
> arrangements (e.g. climate change, human rights, food security). 
> Therefore, business, civil society, and the technical community face 
> the challenge and responsibility of ensuring substantive government 
> participation in the IGF.
>
> My statement is supported by Diplo's pilot research project on the IGF 
> Language Corpus <http://www.diplomacy.edu/igflanguage/geography>, 
> which shows that only 28% of governments (54 out of 193 UN member 
> states) have spoken during the IGF process (preparatory and main 
> meetings) in the six meetings from 2006 to 2011; and even this has 
> declined over the last few years.
>
> Substantive government participation will be the make-or-break point 
> for the IGF and other Internet governance multistakeholder bodies. How 
> to achieve it? While it won't be easy, it's not an impossible task.
>
> Regards, Jovan
>
> *Jovan Kurbalija, PhD*
>
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> On 11/12/12 1:12 PM, Tijani BEN JEMAA wrote:
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>     Parminder and Marie Georges,
>
>     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.
>
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>     *Tijani BEN JEMAA*
>
>     Executive Director
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>     Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (*FMAI*)
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>     *Phone:*   +216 98 330 114
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>     *Mobile:*+216 41 649 605
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>     *De :*parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
>     *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 novembre 2012 22:00
>     *À :* governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>     <mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>; tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn
>     <mailto: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
>
>         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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