[governance] WSIS 10+

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 04.08.14 12:18, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal wrote:
> Nota Bene: Wolfgang, I hope you noticed that I did not mention the 
> troubling fact that the US surveillance of all Internet users browsing 
> and emailing over the beautiful unified, un-fragmented Internet under 
> one single root-zone management, and of all phone users, including 
> president Rousseff, Chancellor Merkel, European diplomats, BRICS 
> diplomats, all diplomats, politicians, citizens, that were hostage of 
> the US surveillance paranoia and infernalia. We all pay for that.

Yes, we do all pay for that.

But then, what can we do to resolve this situation? The US secret 
services agencies will continue to do all of this, no matter what. This 
is why they exist. Most of them run on military style management, and 
obeying orders is mandatory there. The same can be said about the secret 
services of any other country. Or any special interests group.

My experience dealing with this kind of 'operations' is that your 
working route is publicity. Talk about it. Don't let them do it in 
secret. Cops hate being exposed. Let Internet users become aware what is 
going on. Don't waste your time politicizing it, in the sense of "those 
bad XYZ spying on us good ABC", because this is nonsense (and not true 
in general). If Internet users don't mind being subject of surveillance, 
who are we to force them?

If Internet users are so upset about this situation, they as individuals 
having (whatever - voting, buying, etc) power will act up and fix it.

Isn't this how democracy should function? :-)

Daniel


>
> So yes let's the CS write to USG and its digital champions. Let's 
> start to balance our role.
>
> That is something everyone has obviously in mind when considering the 
> fact that governments are no longer to be seen out of the IG game. One 
> good reason to have CS coming strong into the democratic 
> multistakeholder model, JNC and others are advocating.
>
> JC
>
> Le 4 août 2014 à 10:46, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang a écrit :
>
>> http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/UN-Adopts-Resolution-on-Bridging-Digital-Divide/852511
>>
>> Outlook India:
>> The resolution decided that the overall review will be concluded in 
>> December 2015 by a two-day General Assembly high-level meeting to be 
>> preceded by an inter-governmental preparatory process that also takes 
>> into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders of WSIS.  The 
>> intergovernmental negotiation process would begin in June 2015 and 
>> lead to an inter-governmentally agreed outcome document for adoption 
>> at the UNGA meeting. The process retains the ownership of the 
>> preparatory meetings and the final outcome document with member 
>> states alone. Mukerji said the resolution ensures that leaders, "at 
>> the highest possible level" will meet at the high-level plenary 
>> meeting in December next year to adopt the outcome of the 
>> intergovernmental negotiations.
>>
>> Wolfgang:
>> One of the big achievements in the WSIS process was that civil 
>> society got a voice in the process. A Milestone was the CS WSIS 
>> Declaratzion from December 2003 which was handed over to the 
>> president of the first summit, WSIS 1. It became an official 
>> document. The Tunis Agenda confirmed and enhanced the role of civil 
>> society. As you can see from the text above, ten years later this 
>> process is back in the hands of "governments only". The final outcome 
>> document will be with member states only by taking into account 
>> inputs from all relevant stakeholders (which sounds like a joke with 
>> the experiences of a enhanced communicartion and cooperation over the 
>> last ten years, including the UNCSTD WGs. Should civil society write 
>> a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Kin Moon?
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