AW: Re: [governance] EU internet governance: Franco-German alliance

Lorena Jaume-Palasí lorena at collaboratory.de
Mon Jul 14 14:48:08 EDT 2014 

JC it was a mere fyi, no endorsement at all
Best,
Lorena



Von Samsung Galaxy Note gesendetJFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> hat geschrieben:Lorena,

I certainly fully support the work accomplished by the French Senate. However, these propositions should be considered within the perspective of the WSIS MSism. It is a proposition by Governements. We need in parallel a position by the European industry, and one by the European people to be fully constructive. 

We just had the 15th Libre Software Meeting ( http://2014.rmll.info): it shown that time is probably near when Libre Networking can emerge with a technically advanced vision of the Internet Use toward the second multitechnology transparent/innovation oriented motivation of the initial IEN 48 project that has been delayed by the "statUS-quo" strategy. This comes at a time this strategy has been revisited by the RFC 6852 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6852) assigning an fragmented economic mission to the technology, to the interest of "global communities". 

I think ICANN participates from the "Being Unilaterally Global" BUG. To help ICANN survive, it must have organized competition; otherwise we will be in a mess once EU, Russia, China, etc. States and people stop trusting its ability to "Be Unilaterally Global". An opposition US/EU is certainly possible (the NTIA has said it will not accept a State led solution: this is only the position of one State on 193. Our own concern is at our own VGN (virtual glocal netwok) level. This means villages, cities, regions, trades, languages. While big blocks opposes over ICANN and NTIA, we can build at our own level. From the reactions of Libre Software Meeting people to my (French) slides, I would say this is not yet the begining, but now very near from it.

In the French document German and Europe's people have been interviewed. It might be time that our Libre people network together at technical level. The US business has top down fragmented the internet. May be could we federate it back in a geographical/professional bottom-up EU move?

jfc


At 13:24 14/07/2014, Lorena Jaume-Palasi wrote:
fyi - regards,
Lorena

http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-enterprise/eu-internet-governance-franco-german-alliance-303421 

A new report from the French Senate outlines a strategy for greater European internet governance spearheaded by the Franco-German alliance. Only then can the EU compete with US’s online hegemony. EurActiv France reports.

In a report published on 9 July, the French Senate proposed a new form of internet governance for Europe. The senators called on the EU to play a key role in ensuring that internet governance is independent and democratic.

According to Senator Gaëtan Gorce, head of the Senate’s mission, appropriately titled New role and new strategy for the European Union in the global governance of the internet, “the Snowden affair came as a blessing”, because it exposed the companies which store huge amounts of personal data. The revelations shook up public opinion, and people realised the importance of healthy internet governance.

The US is the global leader of the digital sector: 36 of the 50 top digital media companies are American.

>> Read: EU challenges US hegemony in global internet governance

“Internet governance has become a geopolitical issue. It is a new global battleground,” said Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly.

Reforming internet governance

The report contains 62 proposals aimed at “establishing a national and European strategy to secure our place on the digital world stage,” said Morin-Desailly. The Senate wants to improve internet governance through “an international treaty open to all states and an online ratification process for internet users.” It also wants to transform the Internet Governance Forum into a World Internet Council, which would control the conformity of decisions regarding internet governance.

The report also proposes to restructure the ICANN, a non-profit organisation that coordinates the Internet's global domain name system. It would become the World ICANN (WICANN), conform to international law instead of Californian law, and be accountable to the World Internet Council. An independent and accessible appeal mechanism would be set up to allow revision of WICANN decisions.

>> Read: French concerns over geographical indications will hamper TTIP talks

On 26 June, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Axelle Lemaire, took an assertive stance against the ICANN. In a press release, she said that she did not see the ICANN as “a suitable body to discuss internet governance.”

Europe must make itself heard

The authors of the report claimed that Europe is not vocal enough in discussions about internet governance. It supports a previous report by Catherin Morin-Desailly, The European Union, digital colony? (December 2013). In it, Morin-Desailly stressed that Europe had fallen behind: “Europe’s position is shrinking. Two years ago 12 European companies featured in the world’s top-hundred largest high-tech companies, but now there are only eight.”

Morin-Desailly wants the EU to “take its digital destiny into its own hands and make it a top political priority”. She believes that the EU should “build a European industrial strategy to gain more control over our data and convey our values". It would be linked to digital diplomacy “with a clear doctrine and financial means” in order to promote European values online.

Franco-German partnership

There is a lack of political will. Paris could spearhead the action, but it needs allies. The senators believe that the France-German partnership could be the engine behind Europe’s ambitions of internet governance.

A Franco-German alliance based on data-security is possible because of Germany’s interest in the area. The report proposes two concrete industrial projects: a mobile operating system and a secure and open European Cloud.

Gaëtan Gorce said it is in the EU’s interests to “affirm its principles and not to be shy,” emphasising the need to “speak as one and be coherent".
Anne-Claude Martin I EurActiv.fr - article translated from French


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