[governance] Internet as a commons/ public good

[Lee W McKnight]

Hi,

I agree with use of Mawaki's text as a starting point.

Lee

PS: A few further suggested edits below. Or, these can wait til a procedure, as Parminder and Norbert have discussed, is established.

We recognise the Internet to be <DELETE not only> a global network of networks comprised of computing devices and processes, <DELETE but also>  <ADD and an emergent and emerging social reality. In that sense, it is an intricate combination of hardware, software, protocols, human intentionality enabling new kind of social interactions and transactions, which is brought together by a common set of design principles, and <DELETE stirred by> policies established through due democratic processes. <DELETE While t> <ADD The design principles and policies that constitute its governance <DELETE should> ensure its stability, functionality and security, <DELETE they must also> <ADD and> aim at preserving and enhancing the global commons and global public good character of the Internet [which has made previous innovations possible*]. Therefore, in the face of the growing danger for the Internet experience to be reduced to closed or proprietary online spaces, we urge that the preservation and enhancement of the Internet's global commons and public good dimensions be at the forefront of global Internet governance agenda going forward.




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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Norbert Bollow [nb at bollow.ch]
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:22 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; parminder
Subject: Re: [governance] Internet as a commons/ public good

Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> Can we perhaps adopt some kind of a rough procedure - maybe an online
> vote - to get the sense of the house first on whether people at all
> want any kind of text on 'commons and public goods nature of the
> Internet' adopted or not....
>
> and then when, and if, we know that such is the general will of the
> group, we can proceed to drafting the text, and then put it up for a
> consensus/ rough consensus call... or alternatively, we can directly
> put the Mawaki's text, with a few possible modifications in the next
> few days to the consensus/ rough consensus process.
>
> Just for your consideration

I believe that there is precedent for using online polls as part of
the implementation of the process of making a "rough consensus call".

If (outside of the specific kind of context of IGC decision-making
processes) the objective is to simply get some informal feedback, to
learn something about how many IGC members feel strongly in one or the
other way about a given question, anyone can use a survey tool like for
example moreganize.com to conduct a poll.

Greetings,
Norbert

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