[governance] Netmundial - some questions

[Deirdre Williams]

In the two days left to us before the meeting begins I think we might
generate not a statement but rather a list of questions which the meeting
needs to address and if possible answer.


 I asked, on the Netmundial document, for definitions, because it seems
clearer and clearer to me that we are all using the term “multistakeholder”
but we do NOT all mean the same thing by it.


 I should also like a clear statement on the “ownership” of the Netmundial
meeting: initially it was a meeting called by Brazil, then it became a
meeting called by Brazil and ICANN, recently it acquired twelve governments
as co-hosts … so whose meeting is it? That matters a lot.


 Then considering Garth's comments on Saturday in the Netmundial – Remote
Participation thread

“ I just completed a fast scan of the meaning of stakeholder implicit in
the NETmundial document and posted it as a “whole page” comment to that
introduction page.  I found that stakeholders are not anyone who
self-identifies as such. They are qualified into collective categories of
organizations that are then “represented.”  It would be consistent with
that implicit assumption to aggregate individuals into “hubs” (or as ICANN
does, into internal “communities”).  But it’s not good “Internet” if the
choice to connect doesn’t rest at the level of the individual.”

and Karl's discussion a week or so ago on the issue of “we and me” I would
like to know what is being proposed in terms of establishing and protecting
the balance between the rights of the group and the rights of the
individual. As “civil society” (another term which needs a definition) our
interests should tip in favour of “we” - after all we call ourselves
“society” - but “civil society”, at least as I understand it, is a coming
together of individuals with highly diverse needs and affiliations – for
the society to work the members must be satisfied, as they surrender some
of their freedoms to the needs of the group, that their individual
necessities have also been considered.


 And yes – there needs to be clarification about process. Not only do we
need to ask for clarification but also it would be excellent if we had some
proposals ready to make in terms of this – probably too big a task for two
days?


 Do other people share the 4 concerns listed above – there is already
discussion about the last one? Any other ideas?

Deirdre

-- 
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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