[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:
>
> 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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> *Tijani BEN JEMAA*
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> Executive Director
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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*
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> Executive Director
>
> 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
> <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:
>
> 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
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> Fax: +216 70 825 231
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