[governance] FW: WSIS+10 Zero Draft

[michael gurstein]

My own particular involvement with Internet Governance issues began with the
intertwining of the community informatics approach and the various
discussions associated with the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS-Geneva and Tunis). 

As is its habit, the UN is now revisiting the Summit + 10 and is in the
process of creating various types of documentation including importantly a
review document on what has happened with respect to the original WSIS
outcomes and where, as a global Summit, agreements should be entered into
(at a meeting to be held in late 2014) to go on from here.

I'm attaching the current draft output document (apologies for the
highlighting.

One significant difference between now and the original summits is that
while the significance of the Internet has increased dramatically in the
interim in all shapes and forms, the specific interest in the creation of an
overall policy framework for the global deployment of the Internet has, in
key areas (including most of those of interest from a community informatics
perspective-the digital divide, digital inclusion, community empowerment
through ICT use and so on) for the most part disappeared and particularly
virtually all financial support for independent/CS research and
representation and even programming in these areas.(for an interesting
blogpost looking at this in my own country Canada see
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/digital-divide-canada-poor_n_4269171
.html?utm_hp_ref=canada

What this means is that whereas the Civil Society intervention in the WSIS
process was active and effective (including in support of a broad community
informatics approach) there is virtually no counterpart developments in
relation to this revisiting. (You will recall a flurry of notes etc. that I
posted here on this subject at the beginning of this year.)  I haven't yet
had a chance to go through these documents in detail but a quick review
suggests that, as I tried to say in my comments at the WSIS +10 meeting in
February, it is not enough simply to review what has gone on before and to
project it into the future it is also necessary to recognize where there has
been failure and where past successes have led to new and significant issues
which in turn need to be addressed.
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/making-happytalk-in-paris-disneylan
d-and-the-wsis-10-review/

I'm not sure if anything much can be done on this at this stage but for
those with an interest it is worth taking a look at these documents and for
those with even more interest the overall process is described at
http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/mpp/

M

 

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