AW: [governance] Quick update on WGEC meeting day 1

Thu May 1 04:51:32 EDT 2014

Thanks Avri,

I participated remotely and it was indeed a clear demonstration of the unwillingness by some governments to move towards rough consensus. It is not a big surprise that those governments more or less ignore the new quality Netmundial has reached. They hate the New Mundial model because they feel this will undermine their role. Staying there in the queue and waiting until a civil society person as made some critical remarks is not the role an ambassador in Geneva wants to play. They accept the involvement of non-governmental stakeholders in Internet Governance only as long as they have the leadership (this is their "respective role"). Sharing of decision making, as proposed by the WGIG working definition from 2005, is not their approach. 

This respective role language goes back to the 2003 Geneva WSIS Declaration of Principles. Already the Tunis Agenda in 2005 went one step beyond this classical division of labour (but repeated also the Geneva language). And now we have 2014 and language from Sao Paulo. What counts? 

My impression is that - in combination with the IANA transition - we will move towards a long lasting battle about what is the right multistakeholder model. We have to be very careful not to loose the momentum from Sao Paulo. The efforts by the Group of 77 in New York to get a 3rd WSIS Summit in 2015 is a clear signal that a large number of governments believe that the UN/WSIS multistakeholder model with governments in the final decision making role is the better place. And WSIS 10+ is more or less in the hands of governments (UNGIS). Insofar the WSIS 10+ High Level Event (June 10 - 13 2014) in Geneva will be important and Civil Society should remember its CS WSIS structures and procedures to bring as much as possible "NetMundialism" into this meeting. Unfortunately it is parallel to EURODIG in Berlin, so a lot of Europeans will miss WSIS 10+. 

What about starting to think about a Net Mundial II in 2019? This would help to keep some of the working mechanism of Net Mundial Sao Paulo alive and give a perspective (and an alterantive to WSIS 10+ and beyond). Net Mundial could become something like the olympics which takes place in a four or five year cycle with the annual world championship (IGF) in between. 

Wolfgang          

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Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von joy
Gesendet: Do 01.05.2014 05:27
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Avri Doria; Bits bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Betreff: Re: [governance] Quick update on WGEC meeting day 1

Thanks so much for this update Avri - a very deft summary.
I am really sorry I could not attend this meeting of the Working Group.
The originally agreed meeting dates for later in May, which I could
attend, were changed and the new dates clashed with a long-standing
personal commitment in New Zealand, so I have given my apologies.
I'm fully supportive of the strong civil society stance you're on record
as taking.
Joy

On 1/05/2014 10:19 a.m., Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well day one came and went.
>
> We reviewed some of the recommendation that had not yet been reviewed,
> and once again got hung up on the fundamental differences:
>
> - Enhanced cooperation is only about governments
> - Enhanced cooperation is about all stakeholders.
>
> - Para 32 says all there is to say about Respective Roles and
> Responsibilities
> - Para 32 needs to be revisited to match reality.
>
> - WGEC needs to deliver a consensus report
> - WGEC can come out with a report that reports the varying models
>
> - We trust the chair and he can write a chapeau discussing the
> differences of viewpoint.
> - we like the chair, but he is just human, we need to write up our own
> viewpoints.
>
> - we should go back to our hotels and write up a brief (several line)
> opinion of Enhanced Cooperation and Multistakeholderism
> - we don't need to do this but should continue working on trying to find
> the item(s) we can reach consensus on.
>
> (I expect most groups have been doing the homework just in case there is
> a quiz)
>
>
> The Sessions are broadcast live.  I do not know if there are archived
> recording, but there probably are - I will check.  The CSTD secretariat
> has come a long way in the short year this WG has been working.  From a
> first meeting where streaming was not possible, to a meeting 11 months
> later, with streaming and remote participation for absent WG members -
> not that any did participate as far as I know.
>
> Process wise, Observers are allowed to comment but only in a 15 minute
> slot just before breaks.
>
> While we had brief reports on NETmundial, the IGF, ITU activities etc,
> these were not discussed as there were those who argued that these were
> not immediately relevant to the work of the WGEC which has its own
> mandate. The chair concurred.
>
> Tomorrow is another day.
>
> avri
>
> (a cs nominated member of the wgec)
>

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