[governance] RE: From Confusion to Clarification

[Carolina Rossini]

A mid-term solution could be a wiki or pad with a list of topics and
editable. So organizations can list the publications they wish and feel
represent a good statement regarding a topic.

I feel that if we funnel it through a small number of authors , it will go
no where.
On Nov 29, 2014 1:29 PM, "Milton L Mueller" <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> Wolfgang:
> This is a charmingly Kleinwachterian approach to things, but forgive me if
> I dissent.
>
> I think each of the different viewpoints of civil society can be, and
> already are, represented by CS organizations' own publications. The idea
> that "Each of the six groups under the CSCG (IGC, BB, JNC, NCSG, Diplo,
> APC) could nominate four authors" to represent all of the spectrum of civil
> society just doesn't work. IGC is a mailing list containing a vast
> diversity of ideologies, who the heck would they nominate? At the other end
> of the spectrum, JNC is a single-ideology group, and to a lesser extent so
> is our IGP (Internet Governance Project). APC is already part of NCSG, BB,
> and IGC, do they get triple representation? Furthermore, as Andrea Glorioso
> correctly stated, the plethora of written materials churning out of this
> environment is already overwhelming, the last thing we need is more.
>
> If you want to do this right, then have an ideologically broad and diverse
> group select some of the best _existing_ publications, or excerpts from
> publications, that can summarize and explain the spectrum of viewpoints in
> civil society on IG issues. The selection of issues would also be
> important: some of us concentrate on very direct and more focused aspects
> of IG (e.g., names and numbers, routing, interconnection, standards) while
> others focus on much broader issues that go beyond IG alone (e.g., freedom
> of expression, access, economic policy) The point here would be to reveal
> and document the full ideological or policy diversity among us.
>
> However, even if you adopt that more reasonable approach, the danger of
> representing some views as hegemonic or accepted by all when they are not
> remains. We all get a bit irritated I think when Parminder tells us that
> our views are not really civil society views, and I can easily see this
> project leading to those kinds of debates. And I am not sure I see the
> point of clamoring to get represented in such a publication when we could
> be pushing our views directly into ongoing policy debates that actually
> matter.
>
> --MM
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I propose that we start to work on what I call a "Civil Society Internet
> > Governance Handbook".  This handbook would allow all CS groups within the
> > CSCG to present their own individual points of views so that everybody
> > knows what the positions are. The book could be structured into four main
> > chapters:
> >
> > 1.    Human Rights (Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy etc.)
> > 2.    Security (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime etc.)
> > 3.    Economic Development (Market domination, competition,
> > infrastructure development etc.)
> > 4.    Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols etc.)
> >
> > Each of the six groups under the CSCG (IGC, BB, JNC, NCSG, Diplo, APC)
> could
> > nominate four authors (one for each chapter). Each author would be free
> to
> > argue for her/his position (five to maximum teen pages). There is no need
> > for consensus. Every author would be free to present her/his radical,
> > moderate, liberal and whatsoever position on one of the four main issues.
> >
> > Such a compendium would help to bring more transparency into the process
> > and would enable a more fact based discussion in the IG events ahead of
> us.
> >
> > We could deliver this as an e-book (probably with an Annex with main
> official
> > texts as Tunis Agenda, Sao Paulo Principles, UN Resolutions etc.) until
> the
> > May 2015 Sessions in Geneva. In total this book would be around 250
> pages.
> > If we find a sponsor we could publish this for the New York event in
> > December 2015. Such a book would seen by the rest of the IG Community as
> > a helpful contribution, it would strengthen the role of CS in the
> emerging IG
> > multistakeholder mechanisms and would be also an input into the WSIS 10+
> > process.
> >
> > The chair of the CSCG (together with the co-chairs from the six groups)
> would
> > be the editor.
> >
> > Any comment?
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
>
>
>
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