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

Anja Kovacs anja at internetdemocracy.in
Thu Nov 7 02:31:17 EST 2013 

That's great, Joy! I managed to follow the afternoon session through the
transcript, but unfortunately missed the morning session.

It's a real pity the quality of remote participation was so bad though,
especially as I think you were perhaps the most vocal voice from civil
society defending multistakeholderism. Otherwise it was the message of
multilateralism that came through most strongly. Hope the quality of the
remote participation will have dramatically improved today, so that the
meeting can do full justice to your important inputs.

Thanks and best regards,
Anja



On 7 November 2013 00:22, joy <joy at apc.org> wrote:

>  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> 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> 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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