[governance] CS Speakers for Baku

Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 18:40:51 EDT 2012


yes it took me by surprise as well Mawaki. :O

Sala

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Robert Guerra <rguerra at privaterra.org>wrote:

> To be honest, in my opinion, the process to select speakers for the main
> opening session has seemed ad-hoc at best.
>
> Would have expected a far more deliberate process along the lines that the
> caucus reviews, recommends and nominates persons for the MAG.
>
> Robert
> --
> R. Guerra
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>
> On 2012-10-31, at 6:09 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > ... Still, I'm not sure I understand the process that got us
> > nominating people and end up with a name that was never mentioned here
> > (this is nothing personal). Were there other CS groups that had been
> > running the same nomination process? Is this at the discretion of the
> > Secretariat? And what happens now to the idea of collectively prepared
> > discourse or talking points, and to Milton's good start on that?
> >
> > Just asking.
> >
> > mawaki
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Nnenna <nne75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think Carlos and Valentina make a great pair.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> N
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Nnenna  Nwakanma |  Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG  |  Consultants
> >> Information | Communications | Technology and Events | for Development
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> >> nnenna at nnenna.org| @nnenna | Skype - nnenna75 | nnennaorg.blogspot.com
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca>
> >> To: william.drake at uzh.ch; glaser at cgi.br
> >> Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:32 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Re: [governance] CS Speakers for Baku
> >>
> >> :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Carlos A. Afonso
> >>
> >> William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> escreveu:
> >> My apologies to Carlos, I cut and paste from someone else's email
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 31, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Hartmut Richard Glaser wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Correct name is => Carlos Alberto Afonso ...
> >>
> >> ==========================================
> >> On 31/10/12 17:04, William Drake wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> The secretariat has invited Carlos Alfonso for the opening session and
> >> Valentina Pellizzer for the closing session.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >> Sorry for not following this up earlier. Just too many things to do.
> >>
> >> Though I said we may run a poll, I guess Carlos is already our de facto
> >> speaker,
> >> and Nnnena seems to have received good support and fulfills the gender
> >> balance
> >> and also from developing region.
> >>
> >> And as Ginger rightly suggested both speakers will take up the talking
> >> points
> >> into their text, with some degree of, of course, their own words to be
> >> added.
> >>
> >> May I ask you if this is our rough consensus?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>
> >> izumi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2012/10/11 William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>:
> >>
> >> it's what they're sending registrants
> >>
> >> On Oct 11, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Katy P wrote:
> >>
> >> What? When did this happen?
> >>
> >> On Oct 11, 2012 8:24 AM, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> In light of the host country's jaw dropping decision to publicly
> >> disseminate all participants' passport numbers, I hope whoever we have
> >> speaking in the opening an closing will emphasize the centrality of
> personal
> >> privacy protection in Internet governance.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Oct 10, 2012, at 5:10 AM, Nnenna wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 On each of the points below.  I am currently in the Côte d'Ivoire
> >> Internet Governance Forum and my drafting capacity is limited.
>  However, I
> >> would like to see a line that extends "Multistakeholderism" down to
> active
> >> national participation of all stakeholders. AFAIK, in as much as in some
> >> countries, the government is weighing in, in ways that may appear
> >> overbearing, in others, the decision-makers are actually note
> interested or
> >> think it is an NGO thing.
> >>
> >> Can we have a "Development Agenda" paragraph? I am also thinking that
> >> "Participation" may also need to be a paragraph of its own
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Nnenna
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Nnenna  Nwakanma |  Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG
> >>  |  Consultants
> >> Information | Communications | Technology and Events | for Development
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> >> nnenna at nnenna.org| @nnenna | Skype - nnenna75 | nnennaorg.blogspot.com
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
> >> To: 'Ginger Paque' <ginger at paque.net>; "governance at lists.igcaucus.org"
> >> <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:07 PM
> >> Subject: RE: [governance] CS Speakers for Baku
> >>
> >>
> >> From: gpaque at gmail.com [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ginger
> Paque
> >>
> >> I think that both points are important... I would say 'in addition to'
> not
> >> 'rather than'. Whom we choose sends a signal as sometimes as
> significant as
> >> their words, and we tend to know their general positions as well as
> speaking
> >> abilities when we nominate them.
> >>
> >> Ginger and colleagues:
> >> Yes, of course it is "in addition to" not "rather than" - but has there
> >> been any substantive discussion yet? Frankly I think what they say is
> more
> >> important than who we choose, but agree that in some cases "the medium
> is
> >> the message."  At any rate we are long on "who" and rather short on
> "what"
> >> at the moment, so…
> >>
> >> let me throw out three short statements on issues that I passionately
> >> believe should be addressed. In doing so, I will make an attempt to
> address
> >> them in a way that takes into account the differences among us and hope
> >> others do so in the same spirit. Other candidate topics would include
> IPR,
> >> development…I defer to others there.
> >>
> >> Human rights
> >> CS believes that the absence of gatekeepers and the open, global
> >> communication enabled by the Internet realizes the promise of Article
> 19 of
> >> the UN UDHR. To erect (national) legal barriers to the free flow of
> >> information is a bad idea and contrary to the individual human right to
> >> freedom of expression. We therefore oppose efforts to create "national
> >> Internets," or to block and filter internet access in ways that deny
> >> individuals access to applications, content and services of their
> choice.
> >> All attempts to deem certain forms of communication and information
> illegal
> >> and remove them must follow established, transparent processes of law
> and
> >> should not involve prior restraint.
> >>
> >> Security and Securitization
> >> CS opposes efforts to militarize the Internet, or any actions that would
> >> foster a destructive and wasteful cyber arms race among governments
> and/or
> >> private actors. We consider the surreptitious use of exploits and
> malware
> >> for surveillance or attacks to be criminal regardless of whether they
> are
> >> deployed by governments, private corporations or organized criminals.
> We are
> >> skeptical of efforts to subordinate the design and use of information
> and
> >> communication technology to "national security" agendas. We believe that
> >> Internet security will be achieved primarily at the operational level
> and
> >> that national security and military agendas often work against rather
> than
> >> for users' security needs.
> >>
> >> Multistakeholderism
> >> Global governance institutions should not be restricted to states, so CS
> >> welcomes the additional participation in global policy making that
> >> multi-stakeholder processes provide. But CS cautions that
> multi-stakeholder
> >> participation is not an end in itself.  Opening up global governance
> >> institutions to additional voices from civil society and business does
> not
> >> by itself ensure that individual rights are adequately protected or
> that the
> >> best substantive policies are developed and enforced. In the informal
> spaces
> >> created by MS institutions, it is possible that powerful governmental
> and
> >> corporate actors can make deals contrary to the interests of Internet
> users.
> >> MS processes must incorporate and institutionalize concepts of due
> process,
> >> separation of powers and user's inalienable civil and political rights.
> >>
> >> Milton L. Mueller
> >> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> >> Internet Governance Project
> >> http://blog.internetgovernance.org
> >>
> >>
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