[governance] Networkworld: ICANN Sets Up A Coalition to address new Internet governance challenges

[michael gurstein]

Thanks for the endorsement Bill, but you left out what I consider to be a
crucial element which is that that support should not be done simply by
attempting to incorporate/co-opt civil society within ICANN (as seems to be
the current direction) but rather to provide a means for the independent
support of an independent, broadly based and inclusive Civil Society-not an
easy task to accomplish but not I think, impossible. 

 

A useful example with some (but not total) relevance is the support that OSI
provided for CSISAC at the OECD, which among other things, allowed for the
hiring of a (part-time) CS coordinator and some (limited) funds for
selected/expert CS participation in various OECD substantive
activities/events. BTW one of the reasons that this worked to the degree
that it did was that the funding went (indirectly) to CSISAC and the
co-ordinator reported to the Steering Committee rather than for example, the
funding being given to one or another of the organizational members of
CSISAC who then had the responsibility for (opportunity to) pick and choose
re: how the funds were spent (which inevitably leads to suspicion and bad
feeling).

 

Of course, the OECD is quite a different space from the IG one but various
groupings within CS including notably a lot of the current parties in the IG
CS space have managed to cooperate and accomplish quite a great deal as a
result, in large part, of the (quite modest) financial support provided by
OSI.

 

M,

 

From: William Drake [mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch] 
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:38 AM
To: Governance; michael gurstein
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Subject: Re: [governance] Networkworld: ICANN Sets Up A Coalition to address
new Internet governance challenges

 

On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:27 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:





Many are uneasy with this but if ICANN wishes to occupy that role (and given
their privileged financial position as gatekeeper/rent extractor they are in
a position to present themselves for this) then they have an interest
in/responsibility for supporting the weakest link in that multi-stakeholder
Internet ecology i.e. Civil Society.

 

I can endorse the second lat of the sentence, and we have communicated this
to Fadi and senior staff in some detail.  They say they get it.

 

Bill

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