[governance] Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Jun 27, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> There will certainly continue to be situations where the organizers of
> some important committee have no difficulty in knowing where to go to
> for getting representatives of the technical community which is at the
> heart of running the Internet's core infrastructure. They also know to
> go to ICC BASIS for business representatives.
> 
> But where do they go for getting civil society represented???
> 
> In my view, the lack of credible broadly accepted civil society
> coordination entity cannot continue for much longer without long-term
> damage to the influence of civil society as a whole.

This is exactly what the Civil Society Coordination Group was formed for last year.  Besides all the usual suspects (including IGC), it was explicitly designed to be broad enough to include other civil society networks (including representatives who would NEVER join the IGC - CIVICUS agreed to join, for example).  Due to the excitement over NETmundial, further development of the Coordination Group has taken a back seat, but it really does deserve attention again.  There was a survey about this earlier in the year (see http://lists.igcaucus.org/arc/governance/2014-02/msg00214.html), and Ian Peter who chaired the group had posted about it most recently on 26 March (http://lists.igcaucus.org/arc/governance/2014-03/msg00514.html).

It's quite important, so I suggest rather than trying to get the IGC to fill a role for which is not suited, we look back at where the Coordination Group was at, and get it into shape for the next time it's needed.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet lawyer, ICT policy advocate, geek
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