[governance] Re: WGEC Meeting (Currently Underway) #WGEC

Wed Nov 6 13:52:41 EST 2013

Hi Anja  - just to say that I did refer to the ideas in this paper
during the WGEC meeting this morning, though the quality of remote
participation made indepth discussion problematic.
Cheers
Joy
On 7/11/2013 6:25 a.m., Anja Kovacs wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> A lot of the discussion in the WGEC this morning seems to have been
> about whether a new mechanism is needed or whether existing mechanisms
> should be expanded and improved upon.
>
> The Internet Democracy Project believes that we might need a bit of
> both, though even new mechanisms should be issue-specific, rather than
> being umbrella mechanisms that deal with all kinds of topics. Neither
> the status quo nor a unitary solution but a decentralised democratic
> and multistakeholder model of global Internet governance is the way
> forward.
>
> In terms of where moving forward should then happen for different
> issues, we believe that much of the work of locating such venues has
> already been done in the context of the WSIS Action Lines, and rather
> than starting again from scratch, this work should now be built upon,
> and the Action Lines revived and reformed to make sure that their
> potential also bears fruit.
>
> Our ideas are outlined in this short paper:
> http://internetdemocracy.in/reports/a-third-way-proposal-for-a-decentralised-democratic-internet-governance-involving-all-stakeholders/
>
>
> Any feedback and further ideas of course most welcome, including offlist.
>
> Best regards,
> Anja
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6 November 2013 17:22, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
> <mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     Firstly, I would like to wish all the CS WGEC members best of luck
>     in their meetings and deliberations.
>
>     Here are some personal views. Noting para 19 of the Secretary
>     General's 2011 on Enhanced Cooperation on Public Policy Issues
>     pertaining to the Internet,
>     see: http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/a66d77_en.pdf where
>     it states that the Tunis Agenda "recognizes the need for enhanced
>     cooperation in Internet Related international public policy making
>     but not in the day to day operational and technical matters that
>     do not have an impact on international public policy issues."
>
>     Today as the WGEC continues its discussions, there is a notable
>     shift. The global community appears to have mixed reactions with
>     the Tunis Agenda and its relevance. The NRO facilitated a Workshop
>     [No. 145] at the IGF recently on Enhanced Cooperation where civil
>     society, technical community, private sector, intergovernmental
>     representatives showed practical examples of enhanced cooperation.
>     Suffice to say there are many practical examples of enhanced
>     cooperation, we only need to dialogue with each other and across
>     communities and constituencies to find out.
>
>     Of greater concern to me is that civil society holistically as it
>     funnels through appointments to the MAG, CSTD needs to coordinate
>     a framework for selection. No person should arbitrarily decide the
>     process of selection without discussion with the coalition of
>     stakeholders within civil society. This framework should be tight
>     and representatives to the MAG, CSTD should be held accountable to
>     all not just their flavour of the month group. As we prepare to
>     make an announcement soon for calls for NomCom volunteers for MAG
>     selection, we will also revisit and make calls for noteworthy
>     remarks of fantastic work done and/or issues that people may have
>     with current MAG representatives from civil society.
>
>     Kind Regards,
>     Sala
>
>
>
>     Sent from my iPad
>
>     On Nov 7, 2013, at 12:08 AM, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro
>     <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
>     <mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>>     Dear All,
>>
>>     Most of you are aware that the WGEC meeting is currently
>>     underway. You can follow the event via Twitter #WGEC
>>
>>     The Transcripts are available in real time,
>>     see: http://streamtext.net/player?event=Day1
>>
>>     Samantha Dickinson is tweeting live, see @sgdickinson and you can
>>     pull the storyboard. There is a good discussion going on about
>>     enhanced cooperation. There is interesting discussion on whether
>>     the Chair's summary reflects the diversity of the input.
>>
>>     Kind Regards,
>>     Sala
>>
>>
>>     Sent from my iPad
>
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