[governance] Important concept

[Norbert Bollow]

McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Kerry Brown <kerry at kdbsystems.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > http://blog.cira.ca/2013/12/the-panel-on-the-future-of-global-internet-cooperation/
> >
> > "In the political world, the term ‘governance’ is loaded, and
> > carries with it ideas of power and authority, certainly not the
> > same meaning that we in the Internet world have given it. Are the
> > terms coordination and administration more helpful moving forward?"
> 
> I have always felt so.
> 
> > The above statement really struck a chord with me. It gets at the
> > heart of the current tension between governments, commercial, and
> > civil society interests. If we changed to speaking about
> > coordination and administration rather than governance it may may
> > facilitate more productive conversations from all the concerned
> > parties.
> 
> The I*'s used those words (the 4 C's) Collaboration, Communication,
> Cooperation and Coordination around admin of tech resources during
> WSIS. It didn't seem to catch on as a meme outside of the folk who
> were actually doing the 4 C's.
> 
> Doesn't mean we can't try again.

What about those aspects and public interest concerns which are part of
Internet Governance in the sense of the WGIG/Tunis Agenda working
definition, but which don't fit into “coordination and administration”
or into “Collaboration, Communication, Cooperation and Coordination
around admin of tech resources”?

Greetings,
Norbert

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