[governance] Text of Parminder's input - WSIS + 10 Review
Baudouin SCHOMBE
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2015-12-19 13:32 GMT+01:00 ahmed eisa sudan <ahmed22digital at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:18 PM, willi uebelherr <
> willi.uebelherr at riseup.net> wrote:
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>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> on the IGF-list "Governance" I have read a note about the speech by
>> Parminder on the "WSIS + 10 Review" conference. This text I have appended
>> to it, because it is very short.
>>
>> Very short can be very helpful. But only then, if we want to speak about
>> the truth in concentrated form. We find in the IGF list many short
>> concentrations to the situation in the Internet. And not only from Louis
>> Pouzin.
>>
>> I don't know the other speeches from this meeting. But this text from
>> Parminder have no substance. It is a postulation for "Governance" without
>> to say, who do it and how they will do it and for what interest they will
>> act. Nearly all concepts and conceptual relations are not clear defined.
>> But used. It is a grass island in a swamp.
>>
>> The core questions are clear. Who control the intercontinental
>> telecommunication, how they do it, for what interests they act. But before,
>> we should be clear, what we ourselves want. We have to be clear in our own
>> perspectives and visions. Only then we have a reference position in the
>> reflection of the real existing structures and relations.
>>
>> many greetings, willi
>> Coro, Venezuela
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> UN General Assembly's High Level Meeting on WSIS + 10 Review
>> 16th December, 2015
>> Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change/Just Net Coalition
>>
>> It is a great honour to address this parliament of the world.
>>
>> Madam President, Excellencies, Delegates and Colleagues:
>>
>> The Internet is fundamentally transforming our world. These changes will
>> be no less far-reaching than those of the industrial revolution.
>>
>> The question then is: is the world today politically more mature, than it
>> was in that distant past, to be able to better guide this transformation
>> towards our common goals? More specifically; can the ideals of equity,
>> social justice, human rights, democracy and sustainability, this time
>> around, be a part of the very design of the emerging social structures?
>>
>> Unfortunately, the early indications in this regard are not too good. The
>> post millennial period during which the Internet has begun to underpin most
>> social systems is also the time of one of the fastest ever increases in
>> inequality across the world. This, when the Internet is supposed to be a
>> socially egalitarian technology!
>>
>> The Internet has been called the new nervous system of our society. Data
>> is variously referred to as the new oil or the new currency. Just today, I
>> read a World Economic Forum report which said that “Data could become a new
>> ideology!”. Monopoly Internet platforms today mediate crucial social
>> activities, driven by algorithms about which no one knows what and whose
>> interests they serve. Such vital elements of society cannot remain
>> ungoverned, left to unregulated market forces, and to the powerful.
>>
>> But the past decade after the World Summit on the Information Society has
>> regrettably failed to provide an adequate governance response to the many
>> critical social, economic, political and cultural issues associated with
>> the Internet.
>>
>> As we move into the next decade from here, Madam President, permit me to
>> appeal to this august gathering to urgently address the imperative of global
>> governance of the Internet.
>>
>> We can begin with three things.
>>
>> First of all, we must give up the idea of Internet exceptionalism, of
>> seeing the Internet as somehow so uniquely trans-national, bottom-up, and
>> private sector-led that it cannot, and perhaps, need not, be governed. The
>> Internet is no more transnational than climate change; no more bottom-up
>> than education, health and livelihood practices; and no more private
>> sector-led than trade and intellectual property. All of these areas have
>> dedicated global governance mechanisms in the UN system. And so should the
>> Internet!
>>
>> Next; the fully justified fear of possible statist abuse of the Internet
>> has to be addressed by putting robust checks and balances into its
>> governance mechanisms, and not by being in denial about the Internet's
>> myriad and complex governance needs.
>>
>> And thirdly, Madam President, a so-called tension between multilateralism
>> and multistakeholderism must be resolved - through the test of democracy.
>> The Internet should indeed be served by evolutionary forms of participatory
>> governance. But the basics of democracy do not change: People, directly or
>> through their representatives, alone can make public policy and law.
>> Neither business nor technical experts can claim special, exalted roles in
>> public policy decisions. Such a trend, as parts of civil society have noted
>> with concern, is an unfortunate anti-democratic development in Internet
>> governance today.
>>
>> In conclusion: The world urgently needs a well-defined democratic
>> mechanism for global governance of the Internet, which fully embraces the
>> technical, social and political opportunities of a new, networked world.
>> Such a mechanism is required inter alia as an anchor point, and a meta-
>> support agency, for the governance of larger information society changes
>> that are taking place across all sectors.
>>
>> My esteemed colleagues, left to itself the digital-network phenomenon
>> will certainly be appropriated by the powerful and will result in an even
>> more unequal and unfair world, as early trends show.
>>
>> Our digital future depends on what the United Nations does, or does not
>> do, now.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
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