[governance] News from this week's MAG call?

Thu Aug 8 04:14:27 EDT 2013

Great news that Bali IGF is on! Very much look forward...

Troubled to hear there is a pre-event high level leaders meeting of ICT 
minsters and CEOs to discuss Multi-stakeholder cyber-ethics 
principles...... The thing appears corporate dominated if not 
exclusively for them, apart from ministers...

Till last year, the pre event used to be a ministerial event.... now we 
have a ministers plus CEO event, and that too deciding on cyber ethics 
principles..

(BTW, it was this high level meeting to which invitations were being 
sought to be sold as a fund raising strategy described in the 
problematic document ...... So really, if a big corporation is afraid 
that cyber ethics may tend towards, say open standards, or strict 
privacy principles, one could just quickly buy up some seats at the 
table where the discussion and perhaps finalisation of principles will 
take place.  Fact is, I really still do not know how much funding has 
actually been generated against those promises, and if those promised 
quid pro quos still hold. We were told that this question will be raised 
and an answer obtained in the MAG meeting, but i dont see anything about 
it in the MAG meeting minutes . )

This is not acceptable... CS groups must write to the organisers against 
this... When Sarkozy announced an e- G8 forum that was to be  a 
pre-event to the G 8 meeting on important Internet issues, and he 
invited just business CEOs along with government delegates, CS, 
including the IGC, wrote against this  ( 
http://igcaucus.org/open-letter-president-sarkozy-eg8-meeting-plan 
)..... (This was widely covered in the French press, and as a result, I 
think they did invite some civil society persons)

Civil society deserves a place at policy deliberation tables much before 
big corporates do.....

BTW, in the latter part the statement says " For the time being, I have 
received already the list of name, position, organization, contact 
number, and location/email address of around 40 CEOs of various Internet 
Business/Civil Society organizations to joint the HLLM, proposed and 
sent by ICC Basis officials (Ms. Ayesha Hassan and her staffs). "

Well, it speaks of CEOs of CS (civil society) organisations, but then in 
a list that has been sent to them by ICC? Has any civil society 
organisation/ network also been approached?

Lets tell them, we dont believe in the CEO thing, and we believe in CS 
reps selected by CS networks for such meetings etc...

And if indeed CS persons will be there, we need parity with other groups 
in terms of numbers - although, sorry, we cannot donate...

parminder

PS: Looks like confirming the suspicion that when push comes to shove, 
MSism tends to become corporate biggies sharing power with governments, 
and the rest is basically a charade of minions playing the MS cheering 
game...

On Wednesday 07 August 2013 08:40 PM, Adam Peake wrote:
> See
>
> http://mail.intgovforum.org/pipermail/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org/2013-August/000171.html
>
> you know the MAG list archive is now open?  Archive<http://mail.intgovforum.org/pipermail/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org/>
>
> In case the attachment doesn't open from the archived email, text copied below.
>
> Adam
>
>
> STATEMENT BY SARDJOENI MOEDJIONO (MAG MEMBER) ON THE VIRTUAL MAG MEETING, ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 2013
>   
> Mr. Markus Kummer, Mr. Chengetai Masango, and all MAG Member,
>
> After a series of long and comprehensive discussions and preparations, including our previous virtual MAG Meeting on
> Wednesday, July 31st, 2013, and further discussions/ dialogs between the Global Internet Community including Mr. Chengetai Masango who joined the meeting via teleconference from Geneva and New York with Minister of Communication and Information Technology (CIT) Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Tifatul Sembiring, at his office on Monday, August 5th, 2013 – Indonesia is now confirm and pronounces ready to be the host country of the 8th Meeting of IGF 2013 in Bali as planned. We, the Indonesian Internet Governance Forum (ID-IGF) Multi-Stakeholder Organizing Committee is confidence, well-positioned and prepared to host the Global IGF 2013 in Bali, 22-25 October 2013.
>
> In addition, there is also a pre-event High Level Leaders Meeting (HLLM) on October 21st, 2013, which invites ICT Ministers and CEOs from over the world to discuss the Global – Multi-Stakeholder Cyber Ethics Principles. The topic and agenda of the HLLM is being discussed, and we are going to send the Term of Reference (TOR) to the invitees soon.
>
> I invite MAG Members to approach and invite their ICT Ministers in their regions to joint the HLLM on October 21st, 2013. Please send me the complete list of their name, position, country, contact number, and location/email address, so we can invite the Ministers.
>
> For the time being, I have received already the list of name, position, organization, contact number, and location/email address of around 40 CEOs of various Internet Business/Civil Society organizations to joint the HLLM, proposed and sent by ICC Basis officials (Ms. Ayesha Hassan and her staffs).
>
> Some aspects required to prepare the Global Internet Forum that will be held in Bali, including the funding sources availability have been thoroughly prepared.
>
> Minister of CIT and all bodies at the Ministry of CIT will do their best and take all necessary actions so that the Host Country Agreement (HCA) can be immediately signed by Indonesia and the UN, given that it is the essential element of the IGF 2013 Bali.
>
> Today, a letter was sent to the UNDESA from the Ministry of CIT conforming that HCA is agreed in principle and will be signed formally by August 20th, 2013, after the end of the Major Indonesian National Holiday of Idul Fitri 1434H/2013.
> The Global Internet Community ond organizations support the IGF 2013 Bali in a very positive and relieving. To that end, the Government of Indonesia and the ID-IGF Multi-stakeholder Organizing Committee thank the Internet Community, regional and global for their support so that the IGF 2013 Bali could be executed as planned.
>
> We invite the global Internet leaders and all stakeholders (Government, Business/Private Sector, and Civil Society) to joint us in IGF 2013 Bali to discuss relevant issues in cyber space especially matters concerning the global-multistakeholder cyber ethical principles that we are all share to achieve a safer, peace, and harmony cyber space for all.
>
> I thank you very much for attention and support.
>   
> END
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:12 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:42:50 -0700 (PDT)
>> Nnenna<nne75 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> The next MAG call will be Tuesday next week at 13h00 UCT (GMT)
>>>
>>> Hopefully, by then,we will begin to know:
>>> 	1. If Indonesia is still HC
>>>
>>> 	2. If Bali is still the venue
>>> 	3. If the dates are still maintained
>> Has that call taken place?
>>
>> If so, I'd be very interested in an update, especially on the funding
>> situation.
>>
>> (In particular, I'm interested in any news that allows me to somehow
>> get an idea about how reliable the information is that the Bali IGF
>> is going forward.)
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>>
>> -- 
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