[governance] Brainstorming [Improvements to IGC Coordination on IG Policies] #Working Groups
Charity Gamboa
charityg at diplomacy.edu
Sat Sep 15 00:47:15 EDT 2012
I can work on groups pertaining to capacity building or anything that would
lean on education. Thanks!
Charity
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> As you can imagine, we are constantly faced with the challenges of
> improving the manner in which we coordinate advocacy in policy areas
> pertaining to Internet Governance. Following the current evaluation of the
> IGC, we will issue another Survey to generate suggestions on how we can
> improve out internal coordination as the IGC. Things like developing
> positions on Policy areas.
> The IGC has following consensus developed positions on certain areas such
> as Freedom of Expression, Remote Participation, Human Rights etc. Noting
> that with critical forums looming namely, the IGF and other forums that
> will require global input from the IGC, I have put together some thoughts.
> Let me have your comments.
>
>
> *Background*
>
> Following the recent Survey conducted by the IGC there is consensus that
> there is a need to enhance the coordination of advocacy of critical
> Internet Governance issues in key Forums aside from the IGF. As such, we
> would like to gather your views about how we are going to go about
> achieving the same.
>
>
> The WGIG 2005 Report had identified 4 Public Policy Clusters namely[1]<#139ad738dd8aa2f7__ftn1>
> :-
>
> a) (a) Issues Relating to Infrastructure and Management of Critical
> Internet Resources, including administration of domain name systems and
> Internet Protocol Addresses, Administration of the root server system,
> technical standards, peering and interconnection, telecommunications
> infrastructure, including innovative and convergent technologies, as well
> as multilingualization;
>
> b) (b) Issues relating to the use of the Internet including spam,
> network security and cyber crime;
>
> c) (c.) Issues that are relevant to the Internet but have an impact
> much wider than the Internet such as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and
> International Trade;
>
> d) (d.) Issues relating to the developmental aspects of Internet
> Governance in particular capacity building in developing countries.
>
> The WGIG then highlighted critical policy areas for the attention of the
> WSIS[2] <#139ad738dd8aa2f7__ftn2>. The Table below illustrates the Policy
> Cluster as well as the policy issues.
>
> *No.*
>
> *#*
>
> *POLICY AREAS*
>
> *POLICY CLUSTER*
>
> 1
>
> Administration of the Root Zones, Files and Systems
>
> a
>
> 2
>
> Interconnection Costs
>
> a
>
> 3
>
> Allocation of Domain Names
>
> a
>
> 4
>
> IP Addressing
>
> a
>
> 5
>
> Multilingualism
>
> a
>
> 6
>
> Internet Stability, Security and Cyber Crime
>
> b
>
> 7
>
> Spam
>
> b
>
> 8
>
> Intellectual Property Rights
>
> c
>
> 9
>
> Meaningful Participation in Global Policy Development
>
> a, b, c, d
>
> 10
>
> Capacity Building
>
> A,b,c,d
>
> 11
>
> Freedom of Expression
>
> A,b,c,d
>
> 12
>
> Data Protection and Privacy Rights
>
> A,b,c,d
>
> 13
>
> Consumer Rights
>
> A,b,c,d
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Working Groups*
>
> Having read the feedback from the Survey that was done by Norbert Bollow
> some time ago, it is clear that it is far more beneficial to develop
> positions on key issues prior to deciding which forums the IGC is going to
> engage in. The Working Groups will mean that interested IGC subscribers
> can volunteer their names to be part of the Working Group. They can also
> volunteer to lead the Groups. For now it will be good if we agreed on a
> model for coordination, enlist volunteers etc.
>
>
> *Focus of Working Groups*
>
> Working Groups can be tasked to do the following in each of their Policy
> Areas, namely:-
>
>
> 1. *Create a repository of all submissions and Statements
> made by the IGC or other Civil Society organizations: *This can be
> done by going through the ListServe Archives, UN Publications etc;
> 2. *Identify the issues:* What the issues are? Have these
> been addressed? Recommendations
> 3. *Identify Forums for Advocacy:* presentation of the IGC
> position
> 4. *Preparation of an Information Paper : *summary of issues,
> advocacy options
> 5. *Generating Discussion:* Generating Discussion with the
> IGC and assisting the IGC in formulating consensus position in the policy
> area
>
> There are a few options available to the IGC and that is whether we would
> like to have Working Groups that is based on the Policy Clusters could mean
> something like this. Please note that the Policy Clusters are far more
> expansive and include things like International Trade and issues tabled for
> discussions in relation to the WCIT.
>
>
>
> *Model 1*
>
> *Working Group*
>
> *Policy Cluster Description*
>
> *Policy Areas*
>
> A
>
> Issues Relating to Infrastructure and Management of Critical Internet
> Resources, including administration of domain name systems and Internet
> Protocol Addresses, Administration of the root server system, technical
> standards, peering and interconnection, telecommunications infrastructure,
> including innovative and convergent technologies, as well as
> multilingualization
>
>
>
>
>
> #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
>
> B
>
> Issues relating to the use of the Internet including spam, network
> security and cyber crime;
>
>
>
> #6, #7
>
> C
>
> Issues that are relevant to the Internet but have an impact much wider
> than the Internet such as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and
> International Trade
>
> #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13
>
> d
>
> Issues relating to the developmental aspects of Internet Governance in
> particular capacity building in developing countries
>
> #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13
>
>
>
> * *
>
> *Model 2*
>
> To have 13 Working Groups to specifically work in the following policy
> areas.
>
> *No.*
>
> *#*
>
> *POLICY AREAS*
>
> *POLICY CLUSTER*
>
> 1
>
> Administration of the Root Zones, Files and Systems
>
> a
>
> 2
>
> Interconnection Costs
>
> a
>
> 3
>
> Allocation of Domain Names
>
> a
>
> 4
>
> IP Addressing
>
> a
>
> 5
>
> Multilingualism
>
> a
>
> 6
>
> Internet Stability, Security and Cyber Crime
>
> b
>
> 7
>
> Spam
>
> b
>
> 8
>
> Intellectual Property Rights
>
> c
>
> 9
>
> Meaningful Participation in Global Policy Development
>
> a, b, c, d
>
> 10
>
> Capacity Building
>
> A,b,c,d
>
> 11
>
> Freedom of Expression
>
> A,b,c,d
>
> 12
>
> Data Protection and Privacy Rights
>
> A,b,c,d
>
> 13
>
> Consumer Rights
>
> A,b,c,d
>
>
>
> * *
>
> ------------------------------
>
> [1] <#139ad738dd8aa2f7__ftnref1> Report of the Working Group on Internet
> Governance 2005, Chateau de Bossey in
> http://www.wgig.org/docs/WGIGREPORT.pdf
>
> [2] <#139ad738dd8aa2f7__ftnref2> ibid
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Suva
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>
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>
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