[bestbits] Re: [governance] Ad hoc Best Bits strategy meeting tomorrow lunchtime
Izumi AIZU
iza at anr.org
Wed Oct 23 05:28:30 EDT 2013
Jeremy, thanks for taking the lead and agree with you to have more strategic
engagement of CS on its own.
However, MAG meeting is scheduled tomorrow exactly at the same time and
I have to be there. If it finished earlier, then I will join the rest of
the meeting.
best,
izumi
2013/10/23 Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
> Apologies, I can't join these meetings this week.
>
> There's one issue I'd like to raise: Civil society's engagement with ITU
> on Internet policy. My view is we should stop attending these rather
> ad-hoc sessions with them. Only serves to support their very superficial
> approach to multi-stakeholder processes. Until ITU Council embraces CS
> participation in all aspects, from agenda setting to speaking in the final
> processes, we gain nothing except to give them a bit of PR. I believe :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
>
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> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Will be there if it does'nt clash with a workshop I am moderating. In any
>> case, I can send you some thoughts privately.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:06 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
>> wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
>>
>>> will try to be there.
>>>
>>> wolfgang
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von Jeremy Malcolm
>>> Gesendet: Mi 23.10.2013 10:57
>>> An: Bits bestbits at lists.bestbits.net; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>> Betreff: [governance] Ad hoc Best Bits strategy meeting tomorrow
>>> lunchtime
>>>
>>> I haven't had a chance to write about the technical community meeting
>>> that took place at lunchtime today, but it felt (to me) like an astonishing
>>> power-grab in progress - they are forming a new coalition that will create
>>> a "grassroots" campaign, with the pre-determined objective of reasserting
>>> the primacy of "the" multi-stakeholder model against "government-centric"
>>> models.. The summit has been downplayed - it is now no longer a summit but
>>> just a "meeting", and Brazil has been told that its objectives should not
>>> be to create solutions. Chris Disspain stressed that the meeting is "not
>>> the end game", and that "we seem to have the reins of that meeting, we need
>>> to keep hold of those reins." The overall approach really chilled me - it
>>> was like the WCIT campaign on steroids, asserting a clear leadership role
>>> for the technical community, and at a time like this, it is totally
>>> misplaced and ill-advised.
>>>
>>> So, firstly, we need to strategise urgently about our response. This
>>> will need to happen in private, so - sorry to lurkers from other
>>> stakeholder groups - those in Bali will be having a private meeting
>>> tomorrow from 1-2:30pm in room Uluwatu 2, also known as Bilateral 6.
>>> Thanks to Gene and Matthew for suggesting and helping arrange the meeting.
>>>
>>> Second, can we launch our letter on the summit a little early? I'll ask
>>> the meeting tomorrow to make a final call, but for those who are not in
>>> Bali, please let me know whether you have any objection to us opening this
>>> for endorsements tomorrow, rather than on Friday:
>>>
>>> We, the undersigned organizations and individuals from around the world,
>>> committed to the development of an open Internet and its use for advancing
>>> human rights, express our hope and expectation that the Internet governance
>>> summit in Brazil in 2014 incorporate a multistakeholder model of agenda
>>> setting, participation and decision making from its inception.
>>>
>>> This requires:
>>> The event should discuss what Internet governance architecture is
>>> required to support an inclusive, people-centric, development-oriented
>>> information society. We believe that this requires at the very minimum that
>>> such a structure is democratic, in that it should be inclusive of all
>>> countries and all stakeholders, and that it protects and promotes human
>>> rights.
>>> The full participation of civil society stakeholders in planning and in
>>> the meeting should be guaranteed and resourced.
>>> A strengthened Internet Governance Forum could play a role in the future
>>> Internet governance arrangements to be discussed at the event, and it
>>> should be linked with the CSTD WGEC process as appropriate.
>>> The event should extend beyond good will speeches or presentations of
>>> good intentions and seek to produce actionable outputs in line with the
>>> initial motivations for organizing the summit, to which all stakeholders
>>> will commit. Modalities should be developed to allow all stakeholders,
>>> including remote participants, to participate on an equal footing from the
>>> preparatory process to final outputs.
>>> We stress that opening doors for more stakeholders to attend meetings
>>> is not sufficient. Multistakeholderism has been used with a variety of
>>> meanings, sometimes only referring to a very limited kind of openness and
>>> consultation. If the goal is to achieve an open, inclusive and
>>> participatory debate, more is needed to ensure meaningful civil society
>>> participation.
>>>
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