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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

So Jeremy - I am sure these common grounds exist. The question is how to
operationalize them.

Jeremy Malcolm [21/11/12 16:45 +0800]:
>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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