[governance] Re: Need for strategic planning (was Re: Why Cell Phones Went Dead...)

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 21/11/12 16:13, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> I's say that it's plausible to expect people to talk about what they're
> thinking and doing anyway (independently of the IGF), with specific
> emphasis on the aspects which are most related to the IGF theme.
>
> Now I have observed a near-total lack of engagement with the big-picture
> global-public-interest objective that constituted the official IGF
> theme.
>
> I interpret that as an indication of widespread (among the entire
> community of IGF participants) overall lack of strategic thinking on
> achieving the big-picture objectives that are clearly in the global
> public interest.

Put another way, those who don't want the IGF (or the ITU, or some new
body to operationalise enhanced cooperation) to be developing globally
applicable public policy principles for the Internet, should not thereby
deny the /need/ to develop such principles in certain areas, and the
fact that it is not only possible to do so, but indeed it already
happens (in ICANN, the Human Rights Council, etc).  I would love for the
technical community, in particular, to admit (as WGIG found 8 years ago)
that there /are/ globally applicable public policy principles that need
developing, besides those that they themselves do or could develop
already.  It is then only a short step to accepting that more 
appropriate multi-stakeholder structures and processes are needed to
support the development of such policies in areas where institutional
gaps exist.

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