From jfcallo at ciencitec.com  Thu Jan  1 10:33:15 2015
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Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:33:15 +0000
Subject: [governance] Re: URGENT: Call for candidates to IGC
 co-coordinatorship
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Ilustre José Felix
Os agradezco vuestra proposición, todo para el avance de nuestro amado  
país, aprovecho de desearte un Feliz inicio y todo el éxito en este  
2015.
A tus ordenes
Atentamente
José Francisco Callo Romero


José Félix Arias Ynche <jaryn56 at gmail.com> escribió:

> Propongo como candidato a José F. Callo Romero, miembro de la lista
>
>
>
> *Cordialmente:         José Félix Arias Ynche*
> *                        Investigador Social Para El Desarrollo*
>
> 2014-12-29 1:07 GMT-05:00 Arsene TUNGALI (Yahoo) <arsenebaguma at yahoo.fr>:
>
>> Thank you Mawaki,
>>
>> I look forward to the poll. I take this opportunity to wish you a happy
>> and prosperous year ahead. Please do keep positive energy and work hard on
>> your cause.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> A
>> ------------------
>> Arsene Tungali,
>> Executive Director, Rudi International
>> www.rudiinternational.org
>>
>> Founder, Mabingwa Forum
>> www.mabingwa-forum.com
>> Phone:+243993810967
>>
>> ICANN Fellow | ISOC Member | Child Online Protection Advocate | Youth
>> Leader | Internet Governance.
>> Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
>>
>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>>
>> At 28 déc. 2014 17:41:26, Mawaki Chango<'kichango at gmail.com'> wrote:
>> I am confirming that we have received nominations for three candidates as
>> follows:
>>
>> - Analia Aspis
>> - Arsene Tungali
>> - Kawsar Uddin
>>
>> If there were other candidates left out from the above list, please let me
>> know. I'll directly get in touch shortly with the candidates in order to
>> prepare the poll which will be open sometime early January.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> This is a gentle reminder to let you know for those who are interested in
>>> running for the available position of IGC co-coordinator that you have
>>> until this coming Friday, 19 December midnight UTC, to nominate (with the
>>> acceptance of the nominee) or self-nominate.
>>>
>>> So far, I have received nominations of or from:
>>>
>>> - Analia Aspis
>>> - Arsene Tungali
>>> - Kawsar Uddin
>>>
>>> Please let me know if I have forgotten someone. For those still on the
>>> fence (such as Vincent Solomon, Akinremi Peter Taiwo or Kwasi
>>> Boakye-Akyeampong to mention but those who did explicitly show some
>>> interest), I only have one proverbial phrase for you: If I can do it, you
>>> can do it too! So please let me know if you have made up your mind in favor
>>> of a run.
>>> Please find below a recall of instructions I posted earlier for the
>>> candidates. Please make sure you send your candidacy materials to me.
>>>
>>> Self-nomination: You do not have to forward it here on the list. You can
>>> send it to me directly or to Deirdre: williams (dot) deirdre (at) gmail
>>> (dot) com
>>>
>>> Third-party nomination: Please make sure your prospective nominee accept
>>> your nomination and then you can forward us his or her name as above.
>>> Alternatively, you can make public nomination on the list inviting your
>>> prospective nominee to respond by accepting or declining. Another variant
>>> of the same is that you send us a private email with your prospective
>>> nominee cc'ed on it, asking him or her to accept or decline in a reply to
>>> all, etc.
>>>
>>> In any event, all nominees who will have accepted their nomination will
>>> be asked to provide the following information directly to me at kichango
>>> (at) gmail (dot) com (NOT to this list), which will then be uploaded and
>>> made public on the Caucus website by the time the poll starts.
>>>
>>> 1) Name
>>> 2) Country you affiliate yourself with (nationality or residence)
>>> 3) Organizational/Network affiliations in the context of CS/Academia or
>>> in the context of ICTs
>>> 4) Disclosure of Conflict of Interest, if any.
>>> 5) Short Biography (you may also provide a link to your personal website
>>> or your Linkedin page if you have one.)
>>> 6) Why you think you would make a good co-coordinator for the IGC
>>> 7) Vision for the IGC
>>> 8) A picture of you (no more than 50 Kb headshot).
>>>
>>> We would be grateful if you can keep your text in 300 words or less.
>>> As I said previously, we hope to receive all nominations by 19th
>>> December, midnight UTC
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> Now that the excitement of the new MAG is over it's time for us at the
>>>> IGC to have our own election. We need to elect a second Co-coordinator.
>>>> The results of the elections for new Co-coordinators a year ago  
>>>> gave Mawaki
>>>> a one year term. As he already suggested at several occasions including
>>>> during the election last year, he is not in position to serve two more
>>>> years. In other words, Mawaki does not intend to stand again.
>>>>
>>>> We invite members of the IGC to nominate candidates (please check with
>>>> them first about their willingness to serve), or to nominate themselves as
>>>> a co-coordinator to serve from 2015-2017.
>>>>
>>>> Nominations will be open until 19th December, midnight UTC.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mawaki Chango
>>>> Deirdre Williams
>>>> IGC Co-coordinators
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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From jfcallo at ciencitec.com  Thu Jan  1 10:41:32 2015
From: jfcallo at ciencitec.com (jfcallo at ciencitec.com)
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:41:32 +0000
Subject: [governance] Felicidades
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Ilustre José, así como miembros de esta lista.
Desde Lima, Perú, desear que este 2015, se concrete el avance y  
desarrollo en reducir el analfabetismo digital y que las  
Organizaciones depuren a tanto oportunista, que lo único que hacen es  
hacer negocios particulares y nada en favor de su comunidad.
Insto a ISOC que hasta la fecha no define la situación de Perú,  
faltando a sus políticas de respeto a la democracia y a los Derechos  
Humanos, he escrito mas de 3 cartas a Ted Mooney, quien viene haciendo  
oídos sordos. ¿Complicidad?, ¿es que no interesa que el Perú, este en  
el contexto de la red internacional?. ¿Qué es lo que pasa?, ¿no le  
interesa a la comunidad mundial de Internet, lo que pasa con ISOC-PERU?.
José Felix, algo mas tendremos que hacer para salis de este  
entrampamiento hay en ISOC, otro Burga bien entornillado que enarbola  
inclusión y solo es un simple ególatra y discriminador.
Feliz 2015
Atentamente
José F. Callo Romero
Comunicador Digital
Fundador de ISOC - PERU
Fundador de Internauta Perú
Lima - Perú




Vanda Scartezini <vanda at uol.com.br> escribió:

> Lo mismo a ti Jose y familia. 2015 lleno de realizaciones!
> Vanda Scartezini
> Polo Consultores Associados
> Av. Paulista 1159, cj 1004
> 01311-200- Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
> Land Line: +55 11 3266.6253
> Mobile: + 55 11 98181.1464
> Sorry for any typos.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/24/14, 10:13, "José Félix Arias Ynche" <jaryn56 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A toda la comunidad...mis felicidades por navidad y un venturoso año
>> nuevo... espero que todos la pasen bien y en compañía de sus
>> familiares.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cordialmente:         José Félix Arias Ynche
>>                        Investigador Social Para El Desarrollo
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From fulvio.frati at unimi.it  Fri Jan  2 10:48:03 2015
From: fulvio.frati at unimi.it (Fulvio Frati)
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:48:03 +0100
Subject: [governance] [Deadline approaching: 10 Jan] 11th Intl. Conf. on
 Open Source Systems (OSS2015)
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[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

 

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11th Intl. Conf. on Open Source Systems (OSS2015)

co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE2015)

 

Florence, Italy – 16-17 May 2015

http://www.oss2015.org 

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*** Theme: Open Frameworks: from Service to Cloud ***

 

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has had a disruptive effect on the
commercial software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals
create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. In
addition to the many standalone FOSS projects, FOSS is at the heart of
modern network-based computing infrastructures and can be found in the vast
majority of applications that run in these environments. 

 

Many organizations that have been known for developing proprietary software
are now actively involved with FOSS. FOSS adoption continues to grow among
businesses, governments, and other organizations. FOSS remains important for
educators and researchers, as well as an important aspect of e-government
and information society initiatives, providing access to high-quality
software and the code used to create it. 

 

Also, FOSS has taken the lead in a number of crucial ICT domains, like Cloud
Computing, where open source cloud stacks are widely adopted, and Big Data,
where a wealth of FOSS solutions is now being built around Hadoop.

 

The 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2015) will
celebrate a decade of advances in the use of free and open source software
by emphasizing areas and topics that will drive future use over the next
decade. This will be achieved through a combination of high-quality research
papers, tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, and invited talks.  OSS2015
will be co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software
Engineering as a way to cross-fertilize ideas. The theme for the 2015
edition will be "Open frameworks: from service to cloud", putting forward
the idea on how open source framework can develop the transition from
traditional IT services to cloud-based architectures.

 

A central goal of OSS 2015 is to provide an international forum where a
diverse community of professionals from academia, industry, the public
sector, and diverse FOSS initiatives can come together to share research
findings and practical experiences. The conference also aims to serve as a
meeting place where people can identify new research ideas and techniques
for putting FOSS into widespread use.  

 

OSS 2015 will include research papers, industry papers, formal tool
demonstrations, lightning talks, new ideas, experience reports, and posters.
OSS 2015 also invites proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to
the doctoral symposium, and submissions of panel proposals.

 

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which are
published by Springer.

 

** Topics

 

We are seeking submissions across a broad range of topics, but are
particularly interested in those areas most likely to have an impact on
computing over the next decade, including computing infrastructure, data
management, and the Internet of Things. For practical experiences, we are
seeking submissions that describe FOSS applications in embedded systems
(IoT), health care, transportation, communications, and energy management.

 

Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

- FOSS technologies

 

    - FOSS in the cloud

    - FOSS for data management and analysis

    - Security of FOSS

    - Interoperability, portability, scalability of FOSS

    - Open standards, open data, open cloud, open hardware and open exhibits

    - FOSS in cloud-based applications

    - Architecture and design of FOSS

 

- Mobile and Embedded FOSS

 

    - Mobile Operating Systems

    - Open Source apps for mobile devices

    - Open Source app markets and software delivery platforms

    - Software metrics for Open Source mobile software

    - Energy efficiency in Mobile FOSS 

 

- FOSS Quality

 

    - Static and Dynamic FOSS testing

    - Formal FOSS verification

    - Detection of bad coding practices and adoption of coding conventions

    - OSS metrics: measuring FOSS performance, safety, and quality

    - FOSS performance

 

- FOSS Evaluation, adoption and use

 

    - Evaluation of FOSS software, including comparisons with proprietary
software, in industry and government

    - Use and acceptance of FOSS; organizational policies

    - The role of FOSS-oriented foundations

    - Dissemination, redistribution and crowdsourcing of FOSS systems

    - Expanding scientific research and technology development methods
through openness

    - Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development 

 

-FOSS practices and methods

 

    - New experiences with FOSS development tools and practices

    - Knowledge and documentation management in FOSS  

 

- Economic, organizational and social issues related to FOSS

 

    - Economic analysis of FOSS

    - Maturity models of FOSS

    - FOSS in public sector

    - FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing

    - Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS 

 

- FOSS and education

                - Teaching FOSS to people of all ages and backgrounds

                - Use of FOSS in education

                

-FOSS platforms and toolkits

                - FOSS Data processing and storage platforms

                - FOSS environments for cloud computing

                - FOSS business intelligence toolkits

                - FOSS business packages (CRM, ERP, HRM)

                - FOSS collaboration and communication environments

                

** Important Dates

 

- Paper Submission due: January 10, 2015

- Notification to Authors: February 14, 2015

- Camera ready due: February 28, 2015

 

** Authors Instructions

 

Papers submitted to OSS 2015 must not have been published elsewhere and must
not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under
consideration for OSS 2015.

 

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the Springer Formatting
Guidelines (LNCS)
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). You may
utilize the templates provided in our website. Submissions must be in PDF
format with a limit of 10 pages for each paper.

 

All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please
remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship or
affiliations. Authors of accepted papers will be therefore be required to
sign a copyright transfer (as well as register for and attend the
conference).

 

When your paper is finished, submit it using EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2015) according to the
submission deadlines.

 

** Organizing Committee

 

* General Chair

- Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Program Chairs

- Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

- Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

* Regional Publicity Chairs

- Moataz Ahmed, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

- Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
USA

- Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia

- Francesco Zavatarelli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Organizing Chairs

- Fulvio Frati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

- Nadia Fusar Poli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Web Chair

- Fulvio Frati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Program Committee

- Chintan Amrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands

- Luciano Baresi, DEIB – Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy

- Francesco Di Cerbo, SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, France

- Jonas Gamalielsson, University of Skovde, Sweden

- Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

- Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden

- Abram Hindle, University of Alberta, Canada

- Netta Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland

- Stefan Koch, Bogazici University, Turkey

- Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brasil

- Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

- Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

- Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- John Noll, Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland

- Mauro Pezzè, University of Lugano, Switzerland

- Stephane Ribas, INRIA, France

- Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Italy

- Steve Schmid, Open Technology Foundation, Australia

- Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

- Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

- Megan Squire, Elon University, USA

- Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero – University of Limerick, Ireland

- Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

- Davide Tosi, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy

- Stefano Zacchiroli, Université de Paris Diderot, France

 

 

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From ian.peter at ianpeter.com  Sun Jan  4 17:04:02 2015
From: ian.peter at ianpeter.com (Ian Peter)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:04:02 +1100
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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Worth reading. Puts a lot of the debate about internet freedom into the context of free trade vs protectionism.

Ian Peter

From: Dave Farber via ip 
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To: ip 
Subject: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)

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Subject: DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
To: "Dave" <dave at farber.net>
Cc: 


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty


Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
Evgeny Morozov
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty
Saturday 3 January 201519.04 EST


Recent reports that China has imposed further restrictions on Gmail,Google’s flagship email service, should not really come as much of a surprise. While Chinese users have been unable to access Gmail’s site for several years now, they were still able to use much of its functionality, thanks to third-party services such as Outlook or Apple Mail. 

This loophole has now been closed (albeit temporarily – some of the new restrictions seem to have been mysteriously lifted already), which means determined Chinese users have had to turn to more advanced circumvention tools. Those unable or unwilling to perform any such acrobatics can simply switch to a service run by a domestic Chinese company – which is precisely what the Chinese government wants them to do. 

Such short-term and long-term disruptions of Gmail connections are part of China’s long-running efforts to protect its technological sovereignty by reducing its citizens’ reliance on American-run communication services. After North Korea saw its internet access blacked out temporarily in the Interview brouhaha – with little evidence that the country actually had anything to do with the massive hacking of Sony – the concept of technological sovereignty is poised to emerge as one of the most important and contentious doctrines of 2015. 

And it’s not just the Chinese: the Russian government is pursuing a similar agenda. A new law that came into effect last summer obliges all internet companies to store Russian citizens’ data on servers inside the country. This has already prompted Google to close down its engineering operations in Moscow. The Kremlin’s recent success in getting Facebook to block a page calling for protests in solidarity with the charged activist Alexey Navalny indicates that the government is rapidly re-establishing control over its citizens’ digital activities. 

But it’s hardly a global defeat for Google: the company is still expanding elsewhere, building communications infrastructure that extends far beyond simple email services. Thus, as South American countries began exploring plans to counter NSA surveillance with a fibre optic network of their own that would reduce their reliance on the US, Google opened its coffers to fund a $60m undersea cable connecting Brazil to Florida.


The aim was to ensure that Google’s own services run better for users in Brazil, but it is a potent reminder that extricating oneself from the grasp of America’s tech empire requires a multidimensional strategy attuned to the fact that Google today is not a mere search and email company – it also runs devices, operating systems, and even connectivity itself. 

Given that Russia and China are not known for their commitment to freedoms of expression and assembly, it is tempting to view their quest for information sovereignty as yet another stab at censorship and control. In fact, even when the far more benign government of Brazil toyed with the idea of forcing American companies to store user data locally – an idea it eventually abandoned – it was widely accused of draconian overreach.


However, Russia, China and Brazil are simply responding to the extremely aggressive tactics adopted by none other than the US. In typical fashion, though, America is completely oblivious to its own actions, believing that there is such a thing as a neutral, cosmopolitan internet and that any efforts to move away from it would result in its “Balkanisation”. But for many countries, this is not Balkanisation at all, merely de-Americanisation. 

US companies have been playing an ambiguous role in this project. On the one hand, they build efficient and highly functional infrastructure that locks in other countries, creating long-term dependencies that are very messy and costly to undo. They are the true vehicles for whatever is left of America’s global modernisation agenda. On the other hand, the companies cannot be seen as mere proxies for the American empire. Especially after the Edward Snowden revelations clearly demonstrated the cosy alliances between America’s business and state interests, these companies need to constantly assert their independence – occasionally by taking their own government to court – even if, in reality, most of their interests perfectly align with those of Washington. 

This explains why Silicon Valley has been so vocal in demanding that the Obama administration do something about internet privacy and surveillance: if internet companies were seen as compromised parties here, their business would collapse. Just look at the misfortunes of Verizon in 2014: uncertain of the extent of data-sharing between Verizon and the NSA, the German government ditched its contract with the US company in favour of Deutsche Telekom. A German government spokesman said at the time: “The federal government wants to win back more technological sovereignty, and therefore prefers to work with German companies.”


However, to grasp the full extent of America’s hypocrisy on the issue of information sovereignty, one needs to look no further than the ongoing squabble between Microsoft and the US government. It concerns some email content – relevant to an investigation – stored on Microsoft’s servers in Ireland. American prosecutors insist that they can obtain such content from Microsoft simply by serving it a warrant – as if it makes no difference that the email is stored in a foreign country. 

In order to obtain it, Washington would normally need to go through a complex legal process involving bilateral treaties between the governments involved. But now it wants to sidestep that completely and treat the handling of such data as a purely local issue with no international implications. The data resides in cyberspace – and cyberspace knows no borders! 

The government’s reasoning here is that the storage issue is irrelevant; what is relevant is where the content is accessed – and it can be accessed by Microsoft’s employees in the US. Microsoft and other tech giants are now fighting the US government in courts, with little success so far, while the Irish government and a handful of European politicians are backing Microsoft. 

In short, the US government insists that it should have access to data regardless of where it is stored as long as it is handled by US companies. Just imagine the outcry if the Chinese government were to demand access to any data that passes through devices manufactured by Chinese companies – Xiaomi, say, or Lenovo – regardless of whether their users are in London or New York or Tokyo. Note the crucial difference: Russia and China want to be able to access data generated by their citizens on their own soil, whereas the US wants to access data generated by anybody anywhere as long as American companies handle it. 

In opposing the efforts of other countries to reclaim a modicum of technological sovereignty, Washington is likely to run into a problem it has already encountered while promoting its nebulous “internet freedom” agenda: its actions speak louder than its words. Rhetorically, it is very hard to oppose government-run digital surveillance and online spin in Russia, China or Iran, when the US government probably does more of it than all of these countries combined.


Whatever motivates the desire of Russia and China to exert more control over their digital properties – and only the naive would believe that they are not motivated by concerns over domestic unrest – their actions are proportional to the aggressive efforts of Washington to exploit the fact that so much of the world’s communications infrastructure is run by Silicon Valley. One’s man internet freedom is another man’s internet imperialism. 

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From pouzin at well.com  Sun Jan  4 22:13:20 2015
From: pouzin at well.com (Louis Pouzin (well))
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 04:13:20 +0100
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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Well written and articulate piece. It's quite disturbing that the bulk of
internet savvies still don't dig or admit the US redneck colonization,
quite obvious since ICANN creation. With them rhetorics is a waste. Only
active opposition by all means makes sense, like China does (see article
below). Ok, a diplomacy channel is valuable to keep contact points in times
of crises.

Another insightful reading:
Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Eurasian Integration vs. the Empire of Chaos
December 16, 2014.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175935/tomgram%3A_pepe_escobar%2C_eurasian_integration_vs._the_empire_of_chaos/

Louis.
- - -

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

>
> Worth reading. Puts a lot of the debate about internet freedom into the
> context of free trade vs protectionism.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>  *From:* Dave Farber via ip <ip at listbox.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 05, 2015 6:45 AM
> *To:* ip <ip at listbox.com>
> *Subject:* [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via
> Evgeny Morosov)
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Mark Stahlman via Digital Life" <dl at listbox.com>
> Date: Jan 4, 2015 1:02 PM
> Subject: DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via Evgeny
> Morosov)
> To: "Dave" <dave at farber.net>
> Cc:
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty
>
>   Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?Evgeny
> Morozov <http://www.theguardian.com/profile/evgeny-morozov>
>   Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their
> citizens' onlinUS that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital
> sovereignty
> Saturday 3 January 201519.04 EST
> [snip]
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From suresh at hserus.net  Sun Jan  4 23:02:05 2015
From: suresh at hserus.net (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:32:05 +0530
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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Oh, all the USA has pellagra vitamin deficiency that causes a red, scaly rash on their necks?

When opposition takes the form of blind hatred, yes, rhetoric is a complete waste.

--srs (iPad)

> On 05-Jan-2015, at 08:43, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com> wrote:
> 
> Well written and articulate piece. It's quite disturbing that the bulk of internet savvies still don't dig or admit the US redneck colonization, quite obvious since ICANN creation. With them rhetorics is a waste. Only active opposition by all means makes sense, like China does (see article below). Ok, a diplomacy channel is valuable to keep contact points in times of crises.
> 
> Another insightful reading:
> Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Eurasian Integration vs. the Empire of Chaos
> December 16, 2014.
> http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175935/tomgram%3A_pepe_escobar%2C_eurasian_integration_vs._the_empire_of_chaos/
> 
> Louis.
> - - -
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Worth reading. Puts a lot of the debate about internet freedom into the context of free trade vs protectionism.
>>  
>> Ian Peter
>>  
>> From: Dave Farber via ip
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 6:45 AM
>> To: ip
>> Subject: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
>>  
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Mark Stahlman via Digital Life" <dl at listbox.com>
>> Date: Jan 4, 2015 1:02 PM
>> Subject: DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
>> To: "Dave" <dave at farber.net>
>> Cc: 
>> 
>> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty
>> 
>> Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
>> 
>> Evgeny Morozov
>> Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ onlinUS that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty
>> Saturday 3 January 201519.04 EST
>> [snip]
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Mon Jan  5 03:17:29 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:47:29 +0530
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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On Monday 05 January 2015 03:34 AM, Ian Peter wrote:
> Worth reading. Puts a lot of the debate about internet freedom into 
> the context of free trade vs protectionism.

If one is to believe what is written here is correct, one has to treat 
US and US delegations at global IG forums in the same way as China's or 
Russia's are treated. In fact, treated much worse, as Morozov also 
shows, a Chinese and Russian gov is the biggest threat to their 
respective national Internets but hardly a fraction of a threat to the 
global Internet as the US gov is.

But what is the reality? Has it been missed anyone here? What do we see 
at all global forums? And btw whose initiative is the NetMundial 
Initiative? We can of course make ourselves believe what Fadi says that 
it is the 'mother of bottom up initiatives', but everyone knows that the 
NM initiative, like the initial Net Mundual meeting, took shape in the 
deep strategic parts of the US establishment and is meant to serve its 
interests - and it will serve its interest, no doubt.

The US issued threats and sanctions against North Korea even when it is 
hardly yet proven that the latter was behind the Sony episode. What 
about the enormous intrusions that Snowden shows us as US having caused 
against practically the entire world - and intrusions of the worst 
possible kinds. But of course no one can issue threats and sanctions 
against the US - they are the big boss of the world. In the 
circumstances, the civil society needs to make the choice - it would 
resist and oppose this biggest power with respect to, and the biggest 
threat to, the global Internet, of which one of the most important 
planks is of course a strong global governance system for the Internet, 
which can check US's power. Or instead play the US's game, with perhaps 
the apology that the US's power is just too great to be resisted and 
instead one must try and get whatever little gains one can by playing 
along with it. Not worth the idealism that one expects from civil 
society, but that is not what many other people seem to think.


parminder


> Ian Peter
> *From:* Dave Farber via ip <mailto:ip at listbox.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 05, 2015 6:45 AM
> *To:* ip <mailto:ip at listbox.com>
> *Subject:* [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism 
> (via Evgeny Morosov)
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Mark Stahlman via Digital Life" <dl at listbox.com 
> <mailto:dl at listbox.com>>
> Date: Jan 4, 2015 1:02 PM
> Subject: DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's Imperialism (via 
> Evgeny Morosov)
> To: "Dave" <dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber.net>>
> Cc:
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty
>
>
>   Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
>
> Evgeny Morozov <http://www.theguardian.com/profile/evgeny-morozov>
> Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their 
> citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more 
> aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty
> Saturday 3 January 201519.04 EST
>
> Recent reports thatChina has imposed further restrictions on Gmail, 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/29/google-gmail-blocked-china-great-firewall>Google’s 
> flagship email service, should not really come as much of a surprise. 
> While Chinese users have been unable to access Gmail’s site for 
> several years now, they were still able to use much of its 
> functionality, thanks to third-party services such as Outlook or Apple 
> Mail.
>
> This loophole has now been closed (albeit temporarily – some of the 
> new restrictions seem to have been mysteriously lifted already), which 
> means determined Chinese users have had to turn to more advanced 
> circumvention tools. Those unable or unwilling to perform any such 
> acrobatics can simply switch to a service run by a domestic Chinese 
> company – which is precisely what the Chinese government wants them to 
> do.
>
> Such short-term and long-term disruptions of Gmail connections are 
> part of China’s long-running efforts to protect its technological 
> sovereignty by reducing its citizens’ reliance on American-run 
> communication services. AfterNorth Korea saw its internet access 
> blacked out 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/22/north-korea-suffers-internet-blackout>temporarily 
> in the/Interview/brouhaha – with little evidence that the country 
> actually had anything to do with the massive hacking of Sony – the 
> concept of technological sovereignty is poised to emerge as one of the 
> most important and contentious doctrines of 2015.
>
> And it’s not just the Chinese: the Russian government is pursuing a 
> similar agenda. A new law that came into effect last summer obliges 
> allinternet companies to store Russian citizens’ data on servers 
> inside the country 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/19/russia-digital-soveriegnty-nsa-surveillance>. 
> This has already promptedGoogle to close down its engineering 
> operations 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-engineering-office-russia>in 
> Moscow. The Kremlin’s recent success in gettingFacebook to block a 
> page calling for protests in solidarity with the charged activist 
> Alexey Navalny 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/30/-sp-verdict-alexei-navalny-kremlin-critic-galvanises-russia-opposition>indicates 
> that the government is rapidly re-establishing control over its 
> citizens’ digital activities.
>
> But it’s hardly a global defeat for Google: the company is still 
> expanding elsewhere, building communications infrastructure that 
> extends far beyond simple email services. Thus, as South American 
> countries began exploring plans to counter NSA surveillance with a 
> fibre optic network of their own that would reduce their reliance on 
> the US,Google <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/google>opened its 
> coffers to fund a $60m undersea cable connecting Brazil to Florida.
>
> The aim was to ensure that Google’s own services run better for users 
> in Brazil, but it is a potent reminder that extricating oneself from 
> the grasp of America’s tech empire requires a multidimensional 
> strategy attuned to the fact that Google today is not a mere search 
> and email company – it also runs devices, operating systems, and even 
> connectivity itself.
>
> Given that Russia and China are not known for their commitment to 
> freedoms of expression and assembly, it is tempting to view their 
> quest for information sovereignty as yet another stab at censorship 
> and control. In fact, even when the far more benign government 
> ofBrazil toyed with the idea of forcing American companies to store 
> user data 
> locally<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/brazil-dilma-rousseff-internet-us-control>– 
> an idea it eventually abandoned – it was widely accused of draconian 
> overreach.
>
> However,Russia <http://www.theguardian.com/world/russia>, China and 
> Brazil are simply responding to the extremely aggressive tactics 
> adopted by none other than the US. In typical fashion, though, America 
> is completely oblivious to its own actions, believing that there is 
> such a thing as a neutral, cosmopolitan internet and that any efforts 
> to move away from it would result in its “Balkanisation”. But for many 
> countries, this is not Balkanisation at all, merely de-Americanisation.
>
> US companies have been playing an ambiguous role in this project. On 
> the one hand, they build efficient and highly functional 
> infrastructure that locks in other countries, creating long-term 
> dependencies that are very messy and costly to undo. They are the true 
> vehicles for whatever is left of America’s global modernisation 
> agenda. On the other hand, the companies cannot be seen as mere 
> proxies for the American empire. Especially after the Edward Snowden 
> revelations clearly demonstrated the cosy alliances between America’s 
> business and state interests, these companies need to constantly 
> assert their independence –occasionally by taking their own government 
> to 
> court<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-lawsuit-documents-fine-user-data-refusal>– 
> even if, in reality, most of their interests perfectly align with 
> those of Washington.
>
> This explains why Silicon Valley has been so vocal in demanding that 
> the Obama administration do something about internet privacy and 
> surveillance: if internet companies were seen as compromised parties 
> here, their business would collapse. Just look at the misfortunes of 
> Verizon in 2014:uncertain of the extent of data-sharing between 
> Verizon and the NSA, the German government ditched its contract with 
> the US company <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28047877>in favour 
> of Deutsche Telekom. A German government spokesman said at the time: 
> “The federal government wants to win back more technological 
> sovereignty, and therefore prefers to work with German companies.”
>
> However, to grasp the full extent of America’s hypocrisy on the issue 
> of information sovereignty, one needs to look no further than 
> theongoing squabble between Microsoft and the US government 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/14/privacy-is-not-dead-microsoft-lawyer-brad-smith-us-government>. 
> It concerns some email content – relevant to an investigation – stored 
> on Microsoft’s servers in Ireland. American prosecutors insist that 
> they can obtain such content from Microsoft simply by serving it a 
> warrant – as if it makes no difference that the email is stored in a 
> foreign country.
>
> In order to obtain it, Washington would normally need to go through a 
> complex legal process involving bilateral treaties between the 
> governments involved. But now it wants to sidestep that completely and 
> treat the handling of such data as a purely local issue with no 
> international implications. The data resides in cyberspace – and 
> cyberspace knows no borders!
>
> The government’s reasoning here is that the storage issue is 
> irrelevant; what is relevant is where the content is accessed – and it 
> can be accessed by Microsoft’s employees in the US. Microsoft and 
> other tech giants are now fighting the US government in courts, with 
> little success so far, while the Irish government and a handful of 
> European politicians are backingMicrosoft 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/microsoft>.
>
> In short, the US government insists that it should have access to data 
> regardless of where it is stored as long as it is handled by US 
> companies. Just imagine the outcry if the Chinese government were to 
> demand access to any data that passes through devices manufactured by 
> Chinese companies – Xiaomi, say, or Lenovo – regardless of whether 
> their users are in London or New York or Tokyo. Note the crucial 
> difference: Russia andChina 
> <http://www.theguardian.com/world/china>want to be able to access data 
> generated by their citizens on their own soil, whereas the US wants to 
> access data generated by anybody anywhere as long as American 
> companies handle it.
>
> In opposing the efforts of other countries to reclaim a modicum of 
> technological sovereignty, Washington is likely to run into a problem 
> it has already encountered while promoting its nebulous “internet 
> freedom” agenda: its actions speak louder than its words. 
> Rhetorically, it is very hard to oppose government-run digital 
> surveillance and online spin in Russia, China or Iran, when the US 
> government probably does more of it than all of these countries combined.
>
> Whatever motivates the desire of Russia and China to exert more 
> control over their digital properties – and only the naive would 
> believe that they are not motivated by concerns over domestic unrest – 
> their actions are proportional to the aggressive efforts of Washington 
> to exploit the fact that so much of the world’s communications 
> infrastructure is run by Silicon Valley. One’s man internet freedom is 
> another man’s internet imperialism.
>
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From joao.caribe at me.com  Mon Jan  5 05:16:05 2015
From: joao.caribe at me.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Jo=E3o_Carlos_R=2E_Carib=E9=22?=)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:16:05 -0200
Subject: [governance] [bestbits] FW: [IP] NETmundial Initiative
 Announces Formation of its Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad
 Global Community Consultation Phase | NETmundial
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Interesting or Concerning ? 

I did a little search about Mr Lu Wei and found some concerning informations:

ICAN 50 open session speech - https://www.icann.org/news/multimedia/301

Note from GIP Platform about IANA transition - http://giplatform.org/resources/gip-summary-report-icann-50
[..]The High Level Government Meeting addressing ICANN’s accountability and the transition of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions, and chaired by the UK minister Ed Vaizey, came under the spotlight. The mere presence of China’s highest-level cyberspace official, Lu Wei, Minister of Cyberspace Affairs Administration, was a clear signal that China is interested in playing a strong role in the transition process. Although his address however mostly followed the known Chinese positions asking for an intergovernmental supervision of ICANN, he also mentioned the greater participation of his country (and various Chinese communities) in ICANN and argued that the candidates for the working groups on ICANN’s internationalisation should be determined quickly, in accordance with the number of Internet users of each country.[..]

China's cyberspace admin. chief visits Facebook, Apple, Amazon
http://www.iloveafrica.com/2014/12/10/VIDE1418182021367254.shtml

[..]Lu Wei, Minister of China’s Cyberspace Affairs Administration, was in the US to attend a Chinese-American Internet conference, at which China pushed for a louder voice in the management of the Internet... a voice which was obviously heard loud and clear by the founder of Facebook.[..]


Em 26/12/2014, às 22:16, Izumi AIZU escreveu:

> I see at least two names from China as very interesting or significant: Minister Lu Wei and Jack Ma of Alibaba, both were central figures at the World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, China last month. Their participation in this Multistakeholder venture is a good sign.
> 
> I also hope our Civil Society colleagues actively engage and advance our core values.
> 
> Of course, there are certain or uncertain elements that are troublesome, but I like to remain constructive, critical, but more positive.
> 
> And Happy holidays and New Year to all!!
> 
> Izumi
> 2014/12/25 3:21 "Lee W McKnight" <lmcknigh at syr.edu>:
> FYI and happy holidays!
> 
> 
> Lee
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From ymshana2003 at gmail.com  Mon Jan  5 07:33:08 2015
From: ymshana2003 at gmail.com (ymshana2003)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:33:08 +0200
Subject: [governance] [bestbits] FW: [IP] NETmundial Initiative
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This is a very interesting development during 2014. It is 10 years since the Policy for Internationalization of the Domain Names system 'processed'.
The inclusion of China, Russia and other major players who used various characters was the main aim for the policy in technical thinking... OR..was it NOT...? <I was there during this period>

NOW...10 years later, and after significant developments to make the Internet a powerful resource...suddenly ...this scramble for it governance becomes a Big Issue...

The QUESTION is. ...Why so if we knew where the home of the Internet is.?

Time to NEGOTIATE is now before the Governance issue becomes political at 100% ...assuming it has not reached thst far....

Y 2k-15 Greetings

Yassin

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From joly at punkcast.com  Mon Jan  5 13:44:30 2015
From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:44:30 -0500
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] FW: [IP] NETmundial Initiative
 Announces Formation of its Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad
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Note Fadi's comments, in NYC having just returned from China, about a "seat
at the table".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFk-fcuTEM

​and then the NMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvH2FTAM2y8​

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:16 AM, "João Carlos R. Caribé" <joao.caribe at me.com>
wrote:

> Interesting or Concerning ?
>
> I did a little search about Mr Lu Wei and found some concerning
> informations:
>
> ICAN 50 open session speech - https://www.icann.org/news/multimedia/301
>
> Note from GIP Platform about IANA transition -
> http://giplatform.org/resources/gip-summary-report-icann-50
> [..]The High Level Government Meeting addressing ICANN’s accountability
> and the transition of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions, and chaired
> by the UK minister Ed Vaizey, came under the spotlight. The mere presence
> of China’s highest-level cyberspace official, Lu Wei, Minister of
> Cyberspace Affairs Administration, was a clear signal that *China is
> interested in playing a strong role in the transition process*. Although
> his address however mostly followed the known Chinese positions asking for
> an intergovernmental supervision of ICANN, he also mentioned the greater
> participation of his country (and various Chinese communities) in ICANN and
> argued that the candidates for the working groups on ICANN’s
> internationalisation should be determined quickly, in *accordance with
> the number of Internet users of each country*.[..]
>
> China's cyberspace admin. chief visits Facebook, Apple, Amazon
> http://www.iloveafrica.com/2014/12/10/VIDE1418182021367254.shtml
>
> [..]Lu Wei, Minister of China’s Cyberspace Affairs Administration, was in
> the US to attend a Chinese-American Internet conference, at which China
> pushed for a louder voice in the management of the Internet... a voice
> which was obviously heard loud and clear by the founder of Facebook.[..]
>
>
> Em 26/12/2014, às 22:16, Izumi AIZU escreveu:
>
> I see at least two names from China as very interesting or significant:
> Minister Lu Wei and Jack Ma of Alibaba, both were central figures at the
> World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, China last month. Their
> participation in this Multistakeholder venture is a good sign.
>
> I also hope our Civil Society colleagues actively engage and advance our
> core values.
>
> Of course, there are certain or uncertain elements that are troublesome,
> but I like to remain constructive, critical, but more positive.
>
> And Happy holidays and New Year to all!!
>
> Izumi
>  2014/12/25 3:21 "Lee W McKnight" <lmcknigh at syr.edu>:
>
>>  FYI and happy holidays!
>>
>>
>> Lee
>>  ------------------------------
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>> *Subject:* [IP] NETmundial Initiative Announces Formation of its
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>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-announces-formation-its-inaugural-coordination-council-and
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From bzs at world.std.com  Mon Jan  5 14:07:04 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:07:04 -0500
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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Something which strikes me in that article is that it makes the point
that the link between the Sony breaches and N Korea hasn't been
established but asserts that the US govt took down N Korea's internet
connection as if it were established fact.

Barring supporting evidence or admission what's more likely is they
were taken down by pranksters/miscreants who tend to attack anything
which is in the news.

I tend to doubt that's how the US govt is likely to deal with a
foreign power, it would be silly, except perhaps as a preventative
measure (to block some attack in progress.)

And I also doubt it would have much affect on N Korea.

So, no evidence, and it doesn't even make sense.


P.S. Did N Korea threaten harm to theater-goers if the film opened or
not? There's some suspicion the threat was a hoax tho they seemed to
retract the threat later.

This is all like tap-dancing on quicksand.

-- 
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From mousavi.sa48 at gmail.com  Mon Jan  5 19:50:13 2015
From: mousavi.sa48 at gmail.com (S.Aliakbar Mousavi)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:50:13 -0500
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] FW: [IP] NETmundial Initiative
 Announces Formation of its Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad
 Global Community Consultation Phase | NETmundial
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Thanks Mr. MacFie for sharing Mr. *Fadi Chehadé*'s comments after returning
from China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFk-fcuTEM
He said that:

"China has now made clear announcement that they are now supporting ICANN,
legitimized ICANN, legitimized the root of ICANN, *legitimized the fact
that we want one single Internet".*

I have a question for him, related to those comments and not related to
NETmondial.

My question for Mr. Chehadé is that what about Iran، its *National Internet
project*, and the executive order for separating Internet and Intranet
traffic in the country?

The exact its online version is below:
http://www.matma.ir/documents/10180/13021/bakhshname12.png?t=1386407838000

I would like to ask Mr.Chehadé to travel Iran and raise the same concern to
come up with the same statement and one single Internet in Iran as well.

http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/11/internet-reportthe-national-information-network-national-internet/
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/01/china-iran-internet/

Best wishes,
Ali
(Aliakbar Mousavi)




On 5 January 2015 at 13:44, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> Note Fadi's comments, in NYC having just returned from China, about a
> "seat at the table".
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFk-fcuTEM
>
> ​and then the NMI
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvH2FTAM2y8​
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:16 AM, "João Carlos R. Caribé" <
> joao.caribe at me.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting or Concerning ?
>>
>> I did a little search about Mr Lu Wei and found some concerning
>> informations:
>>
>> ICAN 50 open session speech - https://www.icann.org/news/multimedia/301
>>
>> Note from GIP Platform about IANA transition -
>> http://giplatform.org/resources/gip-summary-report-icann-50
>> [..]The High Level Government Meeting addressing ICANN’s accountability
>> and the transition of NTIA’s stewardship of the IANA functions, and chaired
>> by the UK minister Ed Vaizey, came under the spotlight. The mere presence
>> of China’s highest-level cyberspace official, Lu Wei, Minister of
>> Cyberspace Affairs Administration, was a clear signal that *China is
>> interested in playing a strong role in the transition process*. Although
>> his address however mostly followed the known Chinese positions asking for
>> an intergovernmental supervision of ICANN, he also mentioned the greater
>> participation of his country (and various Chinese communities) in ICANN and
>> argued that the candidates for the working groups on ICANN’s
>> internationalisation should be determined quickly, in *accordance with
>> the number of Internet users of each country*.[..]
>>
>> China's cyberspace admin. chief visits Facebook, Apple, Amazon
>> http://www.iloveafrica.com/2014/12/10/VIDE1418182021367254.shtml
>>
>> [..]Lu Wei, Minister of China’s Cyberspace Affairs Administration, was
>> in the US to attend a Chinese-American Internet conference, at which China
>> pushed for a louder voice in the management of the Internet... a voice
>> which was obviously heard loud and clear by the founder of Facebook.[..]
>>
>>
>> Em 26/12/2014, às 22:16, Izumi AIZU escreveu:
>>
>> I see at least two names from China as very interesting or significant:
>> Minister Lu Wei and Jack Ma of Alibaba, both were central figures at the
>> World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, China last month. Their
>> participation in this Multistakeholder venture is a good sign.
>>
>> I also hope our Civil Society colleagues actively engage and advance our
>> core values.
>>
>> Of course, there are certain or uncertain elements that are troublesome,
>> but I like to remain constructive, critical, but more positive.
>>
>> And Happy holidays and New Year to all!!
>>
>> Izumi
>>  2014/12/25 3:21 "Lee W McKnight" <lmcknigh at syr.edu>:
>>
>>>  FYI and happy holidays!
>>>
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Dave Farber via ip <ip at listbox.com>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 24, 2014 10:58 AM
>>> *To:* ip
>>> *Subject:* [IP] NETmundial Initiative Announces Formation of its
>>> Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad Global Community Consultation
>>> Phase | NETmundial
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-announces-formation-its-inaugural-coordination-council-and
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Tue Jan  6 03:52:30 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:22:30 +0530
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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On Tuesday 06 January 2015 12:37 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
> Something which strikes me in that article is that it makes the point
> that the link between the Sony breaches and N Korea hasn't been
> established but asserts that the US govt took down N Korea's internet
> connection as if it were established fact.

What is certainly an established fact is that the US has announced 
sanctions against North Korea specially in relation to this episode , 
see 
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/01/02/obama-orders-sanctions-on-north-korea-over-sony-hack/ 
.

Further, Obama has warned that US's response would “take place at a time 
and in a manner of our choosing.”

However reprehensible the North Korean regime is, it is unacceptable 
that US should officially use such war like language for a yet to be 
proven allegation. (What about its own 'proven' attacks on Iranian 
nuclear reactors, and against practically everyone, that Snowden tells 
us about.) If any other country uses the same language against the US - 
that a response will take place at a time and in a manner of our 
choosing -  it is quiet likely that the US will declare that one as a 
terrorist state and begin suffocating it economically, and even justify 
drone attacks as it pleases.

Another important factor; the US is the main party that refuses to get 
into talking about a global cyber security treaty, of any kind 
whatsoever, bec it apparently does not want any global constraints upon 
its own global cyber adventures...

And this is the country that many of us here allow to lead the global 
Internet regime.... And allow it to keep the world hyper confused about 
everything Internet governance, from the need of global forums for 
Internet norms and policies to an IANA transition process that is made 
to order to confuse and mislead, unless of course it is me who has an 
exceptionally poor IQ..

parminder

> Barring supporting evidence or admission what's more likely is they
> were taken down by pranksters/miscreants who tend to attack anything
> which is in the news.
>
> I tend to doubt that's how the US govt is likely to deal with a
> foreign power, it would be silly, except perhaps as a preventative
> measure (to block some attack in progress.)
>
> And I also doubt it would have much affect on N Korea.
>
> So, no evidence, and it doesn't even make sense.
>
>
> P.S. Did N Korea threaten harm to theater-goers if the film opened or
> not? There's some suspicion the threat was a hoax tho they seemed to
> retract the threat later.
>
> This is all like tap-dancing on quicksand.
>


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From bzs at world.std.com  Tue Jan  6 14:02:13 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 14:02:13 -0500
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
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I don't think you have an "exceptionally poor IQ" :-)

But there is a whiff of moral nihilism inherent in this.

That said the problem we continue to run up against is no effective
international dispute resolution process. Even if we were to assume
the worst the DPRK is accused of were true, or Iran for that matter
(much of which is quite believable if for no other reason than they
boast about it) what is the resolution process? Beyond a group of
probably reasonable people agreeing to issue a statement sympathizing
with one side or another?

And, not surprisingly, we run into the same lack in cyber-matters.

So it devolves to exercises of raw power, justified or not, with all
the inherent dangers and unexpected consequences thereof.

To my thinking that's the real problem.

On January 6, 2015 at 14:22 parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) wrote:
 > 
 > On Tuesday 06 January 2015 12:37 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > Something which strikes me in that article is that it makes the point
 > > that the link between the Sony breaches and N Korea hasn't been
 > > established but asserts that the US govt took down N Korea's internet
 > > connection as if it were established fact.
 > 
 > What is certainly an established fact is that the US has announced 
 > sanctions against North Korea specially in relation to this episode , 
 > see 
 > http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/01/02/obama-orders-sanctions-on-north-korea-over-sony-hack/ 
 > .
 > 
 > Further, Obama has warned that US's response would ,Ab��(Btake place at a time 
 > and in a manner of our choosing.,Ab��(B
 > 
 > However reprehensible the North Korean regime is, it is unacceptable 
 > that US should officially use such war like language for a yet to be 
 > proven allegation. (What about its own 'proven' attacks on Iranian 
 > nuclear reactors, and against practically everyone, that Snowden tells 
 > us about.) If any other country uses the same language against the US - 
 > that a response will take place at a time and in a manner of our 
 > choosing -  it is quiet likely that the US will declare that one as a 
 > terrorist state and begin suffocating it economically, and even justify 
 > drone attacks as it pleases.
 > 
 > Another important factor; the US is the main party that refuses to get 
 > into talking about a global cyber security treaty, of any kind 
 > whatsoever, bec it apparently does not want any global constraints upon 
 > its own global cyber adventures...
 > 
 > And this is the country that many of us here allow to lead the global 
 > Internet regime.... And allow it to keep the world hyper confused about 
 > everything Internet governance, from the need of global forums for 
 > Internet norms and policies to an IANA transition process that is made 
 > to order to confuse and mislead, unless of course it is me who has an 
 > exceptionally poor IQ..
 > 
 > parminder
 > 
 > > Barring supporting evidence or admission what's more likely is they
 > > were taken down by pranksters/miscreants who tend to attack anything
 > > which is in the news.
 > >
 > > I tend to doubt that's how the US govt is likely to deal with a
 > > foreign power, it would be silly, except perhaps as a preventative
 > > measure (to block some attack in progress.)
 > >
 > > And I also doubt it would have much affect on N Korea.
 > >
 > > So, no evidence, and it doesn't even make sense.
 > >
 > >
 > > P.S. Did N Korea threaten harm to theater-goers if the film opened or
 > > not? There's some suspicion the threat was a hoax tho they seemed to
 > > retract the threat later.
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 > > This is all like tap-dancing on quicksand.
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From kichango at gmail.com  Tue Jan  6 17:19:23 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 22:19:23 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
Message-ID: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>

Dear IGC Fellow Members,

I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
coordinator.

The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
as co-coordinator for our activities.

For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
subscribed to the IGC list.)

If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
(please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
if you have not but think you should have.)

Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
Warm regards,

Mawaki

=====================================
Mawaki Chango, PhD
Founder
DIGILEXIS
http://www.digilexis.com
m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
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From ca at cafonso.ca  Tue Jan  6 18:39:14 2015
From: ca at cafonso.ca (Carlos A. Afonso)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:14 -0200
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Received and voted. Thanks, Mawaki.

[]s fraternos

--c.a.

On 01/06/2015 08:19 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:
> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
> 
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements,
> accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose
> our next new coordinator.
> 
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016.
> For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms.
> Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
> 
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
> 
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I
> can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted
> one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you
> don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can
> check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your
> invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your
> invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)
> 
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
> 
> Mawaki 
> 
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com <http://www.digilexis.com/>
> m.chango at digilexis.com
> <mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com> | _kichango at gmail.com
> <mailto:kichango at gmail.com>_ 
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From coffin at isoc.org  Tue Jan  6 19:01:09 2015
From: coffin at isoc.org (Jane Coffin)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 00:01:09 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Same.

From: "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca<mailto:ca at cafonso.ca>>
Reply-To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>>, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca<mailto:ca at cafonso.ca>>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 18:39
To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>>
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015

Received and voted. Thanks, Mawaki.

[]s fraternos

--c.a.

On 01/06/2015 08:19 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:
Dear IGC Fellow Members,
I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements,
accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose
our next new coordinator.
The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016.
For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms.
Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
subscribed to the IGC list.)
If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I
can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted
one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you
don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can
check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your
invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your
invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)
Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
Warm regards,
Mawaki
=====================================
Mawaki Chango, PhD
Founder
DIGILEXIS
http://www.digilexis.com <http://www.digilexis.com/>
m.chango at digilexis.com<mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com>
<mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com> | _kichango at gmail.com<mailto:_kichango at gmail.com>
<mailto:kichango at gmail.com>_
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From soekpe at gmail.com  Tue Jan  6 20:50:06 2015
From: soekpe at gmail.com (Sonigitu Ekpe)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 02:50:06 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Dear Mawaki,

Greetings and a blissful new year.

I have not received a voting link.

Best.

Sonigitu Ekpe

Mobile +234 805 0232 469    Office + 234 802 751 0179
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
> coordinator.
>
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
> if you have not but think you should have.)
>
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
>
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From shailam at yahoo.com  Tue Jan  6 23:03:05 2015
From: shailam at yahoo.com (shailam at yahoo.com)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:03:05 -0800
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Hi Mawaki
Happy Mew Year 
I have not received the voting link !
Please forward to me
Shaila .


Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 6, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
> 
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new coordinator.
> 
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
> 
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are subscribed to the IGC list.)
> 
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)
> 
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
> 
> Mawaki 
> 
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | kichango at gmail.com 
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
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From judith at jhellerstein.com  Tue Jan  6 23:18:33 2015
From: judith at jhellerstein.com (Judith Hellerstein)
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Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Wed Jan  7 01:43:12 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:13:12 +0530
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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References: <B4418CFBBB404646A063F2FB593B15D8@Toshiba>	<CA+EjHYoP=FWV6dwRXViOY1f2HDtYMmjmHvTXy46seEQk--WE2A@mail.gmail.com>	<AD9E48AD-9048-4775-BCA7-2ADD4810B847@hserus.net>	<21674.57560.115766.146423@world.std.com>	<54ABA24E.5040001@itforchange.net> <21676.12597.402296.624573@world.std.com>
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On Wednesday 07 January 2015 12:32 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
> I don't think you have an "exceptionally poor IQ" :-)
>
> But there is a whiff of moral nihilism inherent in this.

Not at all. That is one one thing you can hardly ever accuse me of :)
>
> That said the problem we continue to run up against is no effective
> international dispute resolution process.
What about the International Court of Justice. In my view, with the 
digital encompassing a largely boundary-less world, there should be a 
separate digital bench of the ICJ. (Some organisations have suggested 
this as a part of the new institutional landscape that we need for 
global IG). But for that we need to develop international law bec ICJ 
applies international law - for which we need venues to legitimately 
develop international law..... Which is something many of us have been 
struggling for a long time, including in this space.

>   Even if we were to assume
> the worst the DPRK is accused of were true, or Iran for that matter
> (much of which is quite believable if for no other reason than they
> boast about it) what is the resolution process? Beyond a group of
> probably reasonable people agreeing to issue a statement sympathizing
> with one side or another?

The above is a clear plan of action, not just a vacant statement of 
outrage and sympathy. (and my proof against allegation of moral nihilism 
:) ) My view is that civil society should be working on such plans, to 
promote global public interest. But a lot of them seem to have other 
plans, for instance, joining up with big business like at the WEF to 
block development of international law and norms in this area...

parminder
>
> And, not surprisingly, we run into the same lack in cyber-matters.
>
> So it devolves to exercises of raw power, justified or not, with all
> the inherent dangers and unexpected consequences thereof.
>
> To my thinking that's the real problem.
>
> On January 6, 2015 at 14:22 parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) wrote:
>   >
>   > On Tuesday 06 January 2015 12:37 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
>   > > Something which strikes me in that article is that it makes the point
>   > > that the link between the Sony breaches and N Korea hasn't been
>   > > established but asserts that the US govt took down N Korea's internet
>   > > connection as if it were established fact.
>   >
>   > What is certainly an established fact is that the US has announced
>   > sanctions against North Korea specially in relation to this episode ,
>   > see
>   > http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/01/02/obama-orders-sanctions-on-north-korea-over-sony-hack/
>   > .
>   >
>   > Further, Obama has warned that US's response would ,Ab���take place at a time
>   > and in a manner of our choosing.,Ab���
>   >
>   > However reprehensible the North Korean regime is, it is unacceptable
>   > that US should officially use such war like language for a yet to be
>   > proven allegation. (What about its own 'proven' attacks on Iranian
>   > nuclear reactors, and against practically everyone, that Snowden tells
>   > us about.) If any other country uses the same language against the US -
>   > that a response will take place at a time and in a manner of our
>   > choosing -  it is quiet likely that the US will declare that one as a
>   > terrorist state and begin suffocating it economically, and even justify
>   > drone attacks as it pleases.
>   >
>   > Another important factor; the US is the main party that refuses to get
>   > into talking about a global cyber security treaty, of any kind
>   > whatsoever, bec it apparently does not want any global constraints upon
>   > its own global cyber adventures...
>   >
>   > And this is the country that many of us here allow to lead the global
>   > Internet regime.... And allow it to keep the world hyper confused about
>   > everything Internet governance, from the need of global forums for
>   > Internet norms and policies to an IANA transition process that is made
>   > to order to confuse and mislead, unless of course it is me who has an
>   > exceptionally poor IQ..
>   >
>   > parminder
>   >
>   > > Barring supporting evidence or admission what's more likely is they
>   > > were taken down by pranksters/miscreants who tend to attack anything
>   > > which is in the news.
>   > >
>   > > I tend to doubt that's how the US govt is likely to deal with a
>   > > foreign power, it would be silly, except perhaps as a preventative
>   > > measure (to block some attack in progress.)
>   > >
>   > > And I also doubt it would have much affect on N Korea.
>   > >
>   > > So, no evidence, and it doesn't even make sense.
>   > >
>   > >
>   > > P.S. Did N Korea threaten harm to theater-goers if the film opened or
>   > > not? There's some suspicion the threat was a hoax tho they seemed to
>   > > retract the threat later.
>   > >
>   > > This is all like tap-dancing on quicksand.
>   > >
>   >
>   >
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From remmyn at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 02:40:23 2015
From: remmyn at gmail.com (Remmy Nweke)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 23:40:23 -0800
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
Message-ID: <-5474218373577558485@unknownmsgid>

Dear Mawaki
Compliments of the season too and all.
Please note I am yet to get voting invite.
Thanks
Remmy Nweke
@ITRealms

Sent from my Windows Phone
------------------------------
From: Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
Sent: 06/01/2015 23:20
To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015

Dear IGC Fellow Members,

I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
coordinator.

The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
as co-coordinator for our activities.

For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
subscribed to the IGC list.)

If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
(please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
if you have not but think you should have.)

Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
Warm regards,

Mawaki

=====================================
Mawaki Chango, PhD
Founder
DIGILEXIS
http://www.digilexis.com
m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
Skype: digilexis
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From daniel at digsys.bg  Wed Jan  7 03:03:49 2015
From: daniel at digsys.bg (Daniel Kalchev)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:03:49 +0200
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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References: <B4418CFBBB404646A063F2FB593B15D8@Toshiba>	<CA+EjHYoP=FWV6dwRXViOY1f2HDtYMmjmHvTXy46seEQk--WE2A@mail.gmail.com>	<AD9E48AD-9048-4775-BCA7-2ADD4810B847@hserus.net>	<21674.57560.115766.146423@world.std.com>	<54ABA24E.5040001@itforchange.net> <21676.12597.402296.624573@world.std.com>
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On 06.01.15 21:02, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> So it devolves to exercises of raw power, justified or not, with all
> the inherent dangers and unexpected consequences thereof.
> 
> To my thinking that's the real problem.

Yes. That is the real problem. The US for some reason think they are the
elected Government of the Earth. Or, if this is not the case, they are
apparently under the impression that a divine force has given them the
rule over the kingdom Earth.

Internet (governance) is just one of the facets.

Unfortunately, the possible ways to wake up from this will hurt a lot of
people.

Daniel

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From ymshana2003 at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 03:21:31 2015
From: ymshana2003 at gmail.com (ymshana2003)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:21:31 +0200
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Thank you. 
I have my constitutional right as a member of this group.
Good luck to the incumbents. 
Yassin


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From: Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> 
Date:07/01/2015  00:19  (GMT+02:00) 
To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org> 
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015 

Dear IGC Fellow Members,

I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new coordinator.

The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.

For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are subscribed to the IGC list.)

If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)

Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
Warm regards,

Mawaki 

=====================================
Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
Founder
DIGILEXIS
http://www.digilexis.com
m.chango at digilexis.com | kichango at gmail.com 
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From norbertglakpe at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 03:54:49 2015
From: norbertglakpe at gmail.com (Norbert Komlan GLAKPE)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:54:49 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <D0D1E164.1F8BE%coffin@isoc.org>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
 <54AC7222.5070601@cafonso.ca> <D0D1E164.1F8BE%coffin@isoc.org>
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Hi Mawaki,
Thanks for to great job you did.

Received and voted too.

Norbert GLAKPE

2015-01-07 0:01 GMT+00:00 Jane Coffin <coffin at isoc.org>:

>  Same.
>
>   From: "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca>
> Reply-To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>,
> "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca>
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 18:39
> To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
>
>   Received and voted. Thanks, Mawaki.
>
>  []s fraternos
>
>  --c.a.
>
>  On 01/06/2015 08:19 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:
>
> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>  I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements,
> accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose
> our next new coordinator.
>  The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016.
> For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms.
> Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>  For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>  If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I
> can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted
> one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you
> don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can
> check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your
> invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your
> invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)
>  Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
>  Mawaki
>  =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com <http://www.digilexis.com/>
> m.chango at digilexis.com
> <mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com <m.chango at digilexis.com>> |
> _kichango at gmail.com
> <mailto:kichango at gmail.com>_ <kichango at gmail.com%3E_>
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
>
>
>
>
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From andersj at elon.edu  Wed Jan  7 06:22:37 2015
From: andersj at elon.edu (Janna Anderson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:22:37 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CALLeeavNVPBPBvOc-koJzOdbBVNRcn3r9az=RDKkK3B3Bd+DTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <D0D280EF.51EEB%andersj@elon.edu>

Mawaki,

Thank you for your work. I also did not receive the voting link.

Best,
Janna

--
Janna Quitney Anderson
Director, Imagining the Internet Center
http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org
Professor Elon University School of Communications

From: Sonigitu Ekpe <soekpe at gmail.com<mailto:soekpe at gmail.com>>
Reply-To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>>, Sonigitu Ekpe <soekpe at gmail.com<mailto:soekpe at gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:50 PM
To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>>, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com<mailto:kichango at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015

Dear Mawaki,

Greetings and a blissful new year.

I have not received a voting link.

Best.

Sonigitu Ekpe

Mobile +234 805 0232 469    Office + 234 802 751 0179
 "LIFE is all about love and thanksgiving"


On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com<mailto:kichango at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear IGC Fellow Members,

I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new coordinator.

The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.

For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are subscribed to the IGC list.)

If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)

Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
Warm regards,

Mawaki

=====================================
Mawaki Chango, PhD
Founder
DIGILEXIS
http://www.digilexis.com<http://www.digilexis.com/>
m.chango at digilexis.com<mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com> | kichango at gmail.com<mailto:kichango at gmail.com>
Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
Skype: digilexis
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From remmyn at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 06:27:53 2015
From: remmyn at gmail.com (Remmy Nweke)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:27:53 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <54AC7222.5070601@cafonso.ca>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
	<54AC7222.5070601@cafonso.ca>
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Thanks Mawaki, just voted.
Remmy Nweke
@ITRealms

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Received and voted. Thanks, Mawaki.
>
> []s fraternos
>
> --c.a.
>
> On 01/06/2015 08:19 PM, Mawaki Chango wrote:
> > Dear IGC Fellow Members,
> >
> > I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> > back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> > pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements,
> > accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose
> > our next new coordinator.
> >
> > The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
> > me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016.
> > For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms.
> > Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
> >
> > For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> > invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> > subscribed to the IGC list.)
> >
> > If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> > you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> > months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I
> > can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted
> > one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you
> > don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can
> > check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your
> > invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your
> > invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)
> >
> > Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > Mawaki
> >
> > =====================================
> > Mawaki Chango, PhD
> > Founder
> > DIGILEXIS
> > http://www.digilexis.com <http://www.digilexis.com/>
> > m.chango at digilexis.com
> > <mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com> | _kichango at gmail.com
> > <mailto:kichango at gmail.com>_
> > Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> > Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> > Skype: digilexis
> > =====================================
>
>
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From compsoftnet at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 08:58:49 2015
From: compsoftnet at gmail.com (Akinremi Peter Taiwo)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:58:49 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Mawaki,

Great job.

Received and voted too.

Thanks
Peter
On Jan 6, 2015 11:20 PM, "Mawaki Chango" <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
> coordinator.
>
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
> if you have not but think you should have.)
>
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
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From chlebrum at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 09:22:28 2015
From: chlebrum at gmail.com (chlebrum .)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:22:28 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Mawaki

Just to say you I haven't receive any email for ballot. Could you send me
link or information for this?

Chantal Lebrument
​Courriel: c <lebrument at open-root.eu>hlebrum at gmail.com
Mob: +33 6 8369 5460

2015-01-06 23:19 GMT+01:00 Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>:

> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
> coordinator.
>
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
> if you have not but think you should have.)
>
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
>
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From ca at cafonso.ca  Wed Jan  7 09:51:43 2015
From: ca at cafonso.ca (Carlos A. Afonso)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:51:43 -0200
Subject: [governance] A BR view of multistkaholder processes...
Message-ID: <54AD47FF.1000803@cafonso.ca>

Just published in the IEEE Internet Computing journal:

http://online.qmags.com/IC0115?sessionID=BD7A2B7CBEF89C57D8F47874E&cid=3193795&eid=19210#pg76&mode2

The Origin and Evolution of Multistakeholder Models

Virgilio Almeida - Federal University of Minas Gerais
Demi Getschko - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Carlos Afonso - Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract: Various domains have adopted multistakeholder models (MSMs) to
address and deal with global challenges, such as sustainability,
environment, climate, and Internet governance. Here, the authors examine
the use of MSMs and their historical evolution, fundamentals, and
characteristics. They also present examples of how such models are used
in the global Internet governance ecosystem. Finally, the article
presents a series of research questions that can be tackled to improve
the efficiency of multistakeholder processes.

frt rgds

--c.a.

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From kichango at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 09:57:41 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:57:41 +0000
Subject: [governance] Re: IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CACTo+v_HZ3wEBsi3bUDGPfH=O_WyGBzpUa=RKMqAkUbTBPqNvA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
their ballot so far, here is the status:

1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system reports
you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account. I just
sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject line:
Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let us
know if you no longer have access to that email account.

2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.

3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.

4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have
hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the
IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the
full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let
me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to
the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?

5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as being
subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
the last 2 months?

I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
for your understanding.

Best,

Mawaki


On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
> coordinator.
>
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
> if you have not but think you should have.)
>
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
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From devonrb at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 11:42:10 2015
From: devonrb at gmail.com (Devon Blake)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:42:10 -0500
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAE1T72TS2K8c2eppw1_TBjn6snsAdcdfR1jeL1NOtbRw2d4ZUA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mawaki,
Happy new year, I have not received a ballot.
Devon

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>
> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
> coordinator.
>
> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>
> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>
> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
> if you have not but think you should have.)
>
> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
> Warm regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> DIGILEXIS
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
>
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-- 
Devon Blake
ICT and Development Consultant
4 Arlington Ave
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,Phone: Office 876-928-9902, Mobile, 876-483-2632

To be kind, To be helpful, To network
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From kichango at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 12:08:41 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 17:08:41 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CAE1T72TS2K8c2eppw1_TBjn6snsAdcdfR1jeL1NOtbRw2d4ZUA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAE1T72TS2K8c2eppw1_TBjn6snsAdcdfR1jeL1NOtbRw2d4ZUA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CACTo+v9p+0gjmA+RVjaSq8i93jOvQwgphpj15Cy7Wbk4DT9aLQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Devon,

Thanks. You are on the voting list and should have received the ballot. I
am sending you a reminder now.

For anyone who might still be looking for their ballot in their email, the
subject line is "Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator election"
You may want to try and run a search on your mail client to maximize the
chances that you locate your ballot.

Again, happy voting!

mC.


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Devon Blake <devonrb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mawaki,
> Happy new year, I have not received a ballot.
> Devon
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>
>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
>> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>> coordinator.
>>
>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
>> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
>> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
>> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>
>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>
>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
>> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>
>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>> =====================================
>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>> Founder
>> DIGILEXIS
>> http://www.digilexis.com
>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>> Skype: digilexis
>> =====================================
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>>      governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> To be removed from the list, visit:
>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>>
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>>      http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
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>>      http://www.igcaucus.org/
>>
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>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Devon Blake
> ICT and Development Consultant
> 4 Arlington Ave
> Kgn 2
> ,Phone: Office 876-928-9902, Mobile, 876-483-2632
>
> To be kind, To be helpful, To network
> *Earthwise ... For Life!*
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From ekenyanito at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 13:48:46 2015
From: ekenyanito at gmail.com (Ephraim Percy Kenyanito)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 21:48:46 +0300
Subject: [governance] ICT, Internet Rights and Post 2015 Development Agenda
Message-ID: <CAHwnKeH4u-5DSemM3+4itKHnYYS_4UOHbhxk2ODdCDy45g1WAA@mail.gmail.com>

Happy 2015,

Apologies for cross posting,

Just letting those in and around NYC, have time next week and are
interested in the Post 2015 process that the President of the 69th session
of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Sam Kutesa, is inviting
civil society representatives to a special interactive dialogue to be held
on Friday, 16 January, from 1:15 - 2:45 p.m. in the *Trusteeship Council
Chamber*.

If you have a valid UN Grounds Pass, you may attend the event without an
additional ticket. If you do not possess a UN Grounds Pass, please apply
for a Special Event Ticket by completing this online form by 13 January
2015: http://bit.ly/PGA-SETs

Please see attached to this email for further information.

The draft programmes and registration links for the *post-2015 preparatory
forum for major groups and other stakeholders*, to be held on 16 January,
and the *first post-2015 negotiating session*, to be held from 19-21
January, are now available on:

*UN FORMS AND INFORMATION*
*Stakeholder Preparatory Forum - 16 January 2015*
*To register, please click here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1alZ1t9FFOl92F1kxzBsJUSOn2tvt4Z3i87mwUg5C9OM/viewform?c=0&w=1>
(deadline
12 January 2014). The draft proposed agenda is available
here: http://bit.ly/16Jan-Proposed-Agenda
<http://bit.ly/16Jan-Proposed-Agenda> DESA-DSD and UN-NGLS are coordinating
a preparatory forum for major groups and other civil society stakeholders
to be held on Friday, 16 January, in advance of the 19-21 January
negotiating session on the post-2015 development agenda.*

*​Post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations*
19 Jan 2015 - 21 Jan 2015
New York

*Programme*

Draft Programme for stocktaking session Intergovernmental negotiations on
the post-2015 development agenda
<http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5814Programme%20for%20stocktaking%20session%20Jan%2019%20to%2021%20rev2.pdf>

*Other documents*

Letter from Post-2015 co-facilitators regarding revised draft decision on
modalities for the process of intergovernmental negotiations on the
post-2015 development agenda
<http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5665Letter_transmittal_modalities_1212.pdf>

*Side events*

Guidelines for Organizers of Side Events
<http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5650Side%20Event%20Guidelines.pdf>
Side Event Request Form
<http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5675Side%20Event%20Request%20Form.docx>


--

Best Regards,
​​
*Ephraim Percy Kenyanito*
Website: http://about.me/ekenyanito
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From kstubbs at afilias.info  Wed Jan  7 14:13:40 2015
From: kstubbs at afilias.info (Ken Stubbs)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:13:40 -0500
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CAE1T72TS2K8c2eppw1_TBjn6snsAdcdfR1jeL1NOtbRw2d4ZUA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com> <CAE1T72TS2K8c2eppw1_TBjn6snsAdcdfR1jeL1NOtbRw2d4ZUA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <54AD8564.7060300@afilias.info>

I wish the the users of this list would be a bit more considerate and 
stop using the "reply all" mode
for personal messages.

Much of the traffic on this list consists of inter-personal messages 
which are of _no relevance_
to most of the list members

thanks for your consideration...

Ken


On 1/7/2015 11:42 AM, Devon Blake wrote:
> Hi Mawaki,
> Happy new year, I have not received a ballot.
> Devon
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kichango at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>
>     I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to
>     welcome you back into the new year first by wishing you all a
>     healthy, peaceful and pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with
>     excitements, accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by
>     inviting you to choose our next new coordinator.
>
>     The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins,
>     replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during
>     2015 and 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working
>     alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>
>     For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>     invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>     subscribed to the IGC list.)
>
>     If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation
>     while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the
>     last two months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me
>     know so that I can look into it. While I do not expect many such
>     cases, I have noted one instance where this might likely be the
>     case. So please even if you don't intend to cast your vote right
>     away, I would appreciate if you can check within the next 24 hours
>     and make sure you have received your invitation (please do NOT
>     send me a message if you have received your invitation, only if
>     you have not but think you should have.)
>
>     Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>     Warm regards,
>
>     Mawaki
>
>     =====================================
>     Mawaki Chango, PhD
>     Founder
>     DIGILEXIS
>     http://www.digilexis.com <http://www.digilexis.com/>
>     m.chango at digilexis.com <mailto:m.chango at digilexis.com> |
>     _kichango at gmail.com <mailto:kichango at gmail.com>_
>     Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
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From bzs at world.std.com  Wed Jan  7 15:18:08 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:18:08 -0500
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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On January 7, 2015 at 12:13 parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) wrote:
 > 
 > On Wednesday 07 January 2015 12:32 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > I don't think you have an "exceptionally poor IQ" :-)
 > >
 > > But there is a whiff of moral nihilism inherent in this.
 > 
 > Not at all. That is one one thing you can hardly ever accuse me of :)
 > >
 > > That said the problem we continue to run up against is no effective
 > > international dispute resolution process.
 > What about the International Court of Justice. In my view, with the 

Has the ICJ ever gotten around to indicting anyone over the 9/11
attacks? Did they indict Osama bin Laden or others named (KSM, et al)?

To my knowledge, no. I suppose the effect on the World Trade Center in
NYC (etc) and boasting by OBL (et al) did not constitute sufficient
evidence to indict.

Or that's not what they do, my misunderstanding.

What do they do, exactly? Reading over their decisions they seem more
useful in cases where the two sides in dispute are likely to accept
their jurisdiction. Is North Korea (DPRK) likely to accept their
jurisdiction?

   http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=2

 > digital encompassing a largely boundary-less world, there should be a 
 > separate digital bench of the ICJ. (Some organisations have suggested 
 > this as a part of the new institutional landscape that we need for 
 > global IG). But for that we need to develop international law bec ICJ 
 > applies international law - for which we need venues to legitimately 
 > develop international law..... Which is something many of us have been 
 > struggling for a long time, including in this space.
 > 
 > >   Even if we were to assume
 > > the worst the DPRK is accused of were true, or Iran for that matter
 > > (much of which is quite believable if for no other reason than they
 > > boast about it) what is the resolution process? Beyond a group of
 > > probably reasonable people agreeing to issue a statement sympathizing
 > > with one side or another?
 > 
 > The above is a clear plan of action, not just a vacant statement of 
 > outrage and sympathy. (and my proof against allegation of moral nihilism 
 > :) ) My view is that civil society should be working on such plans, to 
 > promote global public interest. But a lot of them seem to have other 
 > plans, for instance, joining up with big business like at the WEF to 
 > block development of international law and norms in this area...
 > 
 > parminder

That said, perhaps the ICJ would be useful in the internet sphere.

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From bzs at world.std.com  Wed Jan  7 15:24:42 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 15:24:42 -0500
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On January 7, 2015 at 10:03 daniel at digsys.bg (Daniel Kalchev) wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On 06.01.15 21:02, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > 
 > > So it devolves to exercises of raw power, justified or not, with all
 > > the inherent dangers and unexpected consequences thereof.
 > > 
 > > To my thinking that's the real problem.
 > 
 > Yes. That is the real problem. The US for some reason think they are the
 > elected Government of the Earth. Or, if this is not the case, they are
 > apparently under the impression that a divine force has given them the
 > rule over the kingdom Earth.
 > 
 > Internet (governance) is just one of the facets.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, the possible ways to wake up from this will hurt a lot of
 > people.

I'm pretty sure for most instances one might cite the US would happily
step aside in favor of any reasonably effective, more local solution.

But what this has to do with the recent kerfuffle between the US and
North Korea escapes me. Assuming the charges were accurate -- and they
may well not be, but that's a different dicussion -- the US would have
a generally recognized right to respond, no?

My comments were referring to creating venues for such a response,
international dispute resolution fora with some effectiveness.

I suppose it's far easier to toss peanut shells from the cheap seats.

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From fouadbajwa at gmail.com  Wed Jan  7 18:22:17 2015
From: fouadbajwa at gmail.com (Fouad Bajwa)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 04:22:17 +0500
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Dear Mawaki,

Thank you for your wonderful contributions! I completed my vote last night!

Take care.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Ken Stubbs <kstubbs at afilias.info> wrote:

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> On 1/7/2015 11:42 AM, Devon Blake wrote:
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> Hi Mawaki,
> Happy new year, I have not received a ballot.
> Devon
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>
>>  I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
>> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>> coordinator.
>>
>>  The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
>> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For
>> the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre
>> Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>
>>  For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>
>>  If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation
>> while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
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>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>
>>  Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>> Warm regards,
>>
>>  Mawaki
>>
>>     =====================================
>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>> Founder
>> DIGILEXIS
>> http://www.digilexis.com
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From tracey at traceynaughton.com  Wed Jan  7 19:31:34 2015
From: tracey at traceynaughton.com (Tracey Naughton)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:31:34 +1100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Hello, I have not received the link. Tracey

> On 8 Jan 2015, at 10:22 am, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mawaki, 
> 
> Thank you for your wonderful contributions! I completed my vote last night! 
> 
> Take care.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Ken Stubbs <kstubbs at afilias.info <mailto:kstubbs at afilias.info>> wrote:
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> to most of the list members
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> 
> Ken
> 
>   
> 
> On 1/7/2015 11:42 AM, Devon Blake wrote:
>> Hi Mawaki,
>> Happy new year, I have not received a ballot.
>> Devon
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com <mailto:kichango at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>> 
>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments, joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new coordinator.
>> 
>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>> 
>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are subscribed to the IGC list.)
>> 
>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only if you have not but think you should have.)
>> 
>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>> Warm regards,
>> 
>> Mawaki 
>> 
>> =====================================
>> Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
>> Founder
>> DIGILEXIS
>> http://www.digilexis.com <http://www.digilexis.com/>
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From matthias.kettemann at gmail.com  Thu Jan  8 03:09:49 2015
From: matthias.kettemann at gmail.com (Matthias C. Kettemann)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:09:49 +0100
Subject: [governance] Fw: [IP] DL- One Man's Freedom is Another Man's
 Imperialism (via Evgeny Morosov)
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), unlike the International Criminal
Court (ICC), cannot indict persons. It is a court of last resort in which
disputes between states are settled. The Court can also be asked to provide
advisory opinions. States need to submit to its jurisdiction, either ex
ante for all cases, or for a specific case. It seems unlikely that North
Korea would agree to any proceedings.

Suggestions for 'digital benches' at the ICJ are premature. As has been
correctly pointed out, the ICJ applies international law - treaties,
custom, principles - and does not create new law. International law
regarding the Internet is still crystallizing. The Tallinn Manual (Process)
<https://ccdcoe.org/tallinn-manual.html> and the Articles on State
Responsibility can help us determine whether acts of private actors can be
attributed to states. If you are interested in theses issues, do read this
interesting comment
<http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/19/issue/1/cyber-operations-private-actors-ukraine-russia-conflict-cyber-war-cyber>
by Gertjan Boulet on the attributability of cyber attacks in the Ukraine
conflict.

International criminal law is another matter entirely. Individuals,
including heads of states and government, can be (and have been) indicted
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/07/north-korea-case-to-the-hague>
by the ICC for certain serious crimes. Alternatively, the Security Council
could refer a situation to the ICC.

Cheers
Matthias


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

>
> On January 7, 2015 at 12:13 parminder at itforchange.net (parminder) wrote:
>  >
>  > On Wednesday 07 January 2015 12:32 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
>  > > I don't think you have an "exceptionally poor IQ" :-)
>  > >
>  > > But there is a whiff of moral nihilism inherent in this.
>  >
>  > Not at all. That is one one thing you can hardly ever accuse me of :)
>  > >
>  > > That said the problem we continue to run up against is no effective
>  > > international dispute resolution process.
>  > What about the International Court of Justice. In my view, with the
>
> Has the ICJ ever gotten around to indicting anyone over the 9/11
> attacks? Did they indict Osama bin Laden or others named (KSM, et al)?
>
> To my knowledge, no. I suppose the effect on the World Trade Center in
> NYC (etc) and boasting by OBL (et al) did not constitute sufficient
> evidence to indict.
>
> Or that's not what they do, my misunderstanding.
>
> What do they do, exactly? Reading over their decisions they seem more
> useful in cases where the two sides in dispute are likely to accept
> their jurisdiction. Is North Korea (DPRK) likely to accept their
> jurisdiction?
>
>    http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=2
>
>  > digital encompassing a largely boundary-less world, there should be a
>  > separate digital bench of the ICJ. (Some organisations have suggested
>  > this as a part of the new institutional landscape that we need for
>  > global IG). But for that we need to develop international law bec ICJ
>  > applies international law - for which we need venues to legitimately
>  > develop international law..... Which is something many of us have been
>  > struggling for a long time, including in this space.
>  >
>  > >   Even if we were to assume
>  > > the worst the DPRK is accused of were true, or Iran for that matter
>  > > (much of which is quite believable if for no other reason than they
>  > > boast about it) what is the resolution process? Beyond a group of
>  > > probably reasonable people agreeing to issue a statement sympathizing
>  > > with one side or another?
>  >
>  > The above is a clear plan of action, not just a vacant statement of
>  > outrage and sympathy. (and my proof against allegation of moral nihilism
>  > :) ) My view is that civil society should be working on such plans, to
>  > promote global public interest. But a lot of them seem to have other
>  > plans, for instance, joining up with big business like at the WEF to
>  > block development of international law and norms in this area...
>  >
>  > parminder
>
> That said, perhaps the ICJ would be useful in the internet sphere.
>
> --
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From fulvio.frati at unimi.it  Thu Jan  8 03:45:32 2015
From: fulvio.frati at unimi.it (Fulvio Frati)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:45:32 +0100
Subject: [governance] [Deadline Extended: January 17] 11th Intl. Conf. on
 Open Source Systems (OSS2015)
Message-ID: <00bf01d02b1f$76b469e0$641d3da0$@unimi.it>

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

 

****************************************************************************
***************

11th Intl. Conf. on Open Source Systems (OSS2015)

co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE2015)

 

Florence, Italy – 16-17 May 2015

http://www.oss2015.org 

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***************

 

+++++++++ Extended Paper Submission: January 17, 2015 ++++++++++

 

*** Theme: Open Frameworks: from Service to Cloud ***

 

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has had a disruptive effect on the
commercial software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals
create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. In
addition to the many standalone FOSS projects, FOSS is at the heart of
modern network-based computing infrastructures and can be found in the vast
majority of applications that run in these environments. 

 

Many organizations that have been known for developing proprietary software
are now actively involved with FOSS. FOSS adoption continues to grow among
businesses, governments, and other organizations. FOSS remains important for
educators and researchers, as well as an important aspect of e-government
and information society initiatives, providing access to high-quality
software and the code used to create it. 

 

Also, FOSS has taken the lead in a number of crucial ICT domains, like Cloud
Computing, where open source cloud stacks are widely adopted, and Big Data,
where a wealth of FOSS solutions is now being built around Hadoop.

 

The 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2015) will
celebrate a decade of advances in the use of free and open source software
by emphasizing areas and topics that will drive future use over the next
decade. This will be achieved through a combination of high-quality research
papers, tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, and invited talks.  OSS2015
will be co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software
Engineering as a way to cross-fertilize ideas. The theme for the 2015
edition will be "Open frameworks: from service to cloud", putting forward
the idea on how open source framework can develop the transition from
traditional IT services to cloud-based architectures.

 

A central goal of OSS 2015 is to provide an international forum where a
diverse community of professionals from academia, industry, the public
sector, and diverse FOSS initiatives can come together to share research
findings and practical experiences. The conference also aims to serve as a
meeting place where people can identify new research ideas and techniques
for putting FOSS into widespread use.  

 

OSS 2015 will include research papers, industry papers, formal tool
demonstrations, lightning talks, new ideas, experience reports, and posters.
OSS 2015 also invites proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to
the doctoral symposium, and submissions of panel proposals.

 

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which are
published by Springer.

 

** Topics

 

We are seeking submissions across a broad range of topics, but are
particularly interested in those areas most likely to have an impact on
computing over the next decade, including computing infrastructure, data
management, and the Internet of Things. For practical experiences, we are
seeking submissions that describe FOSS applications in embedded systems
(IoT), health care, transportation, communications, and energy management.

 

Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

- FOSS technologies

 

    - FOSS in the cloud

    - FOSS for data management and analysis

    - Security of FOSS

    - Interoperability, portability, scalability of FOSS

    - Open standards, open data, open cloud, open hardware and open exhibits

    - FOSS in cloud-based applications

    - Architecture and design of FOSS

 

- Mobile and Embedded FOSS

 

    - Mobile Operating Systems

    - Open Source apps for mobile devices

    - Open Source app markets and software delivery platforms

    - Software metrics for Open Source mobile software

    - Energy efficiency in Mobile FOSS 

 

- FOSS Quality

 

    - Static and Dynamic FOSS testing

    - Formal FOSS verification

    - Detection of bad coding practices and adoption of coding conventions

    - OSS metrics: measuring FOSS performance, safety, and quality

    - FOSS performance

 

- FOSS Evaluation, adoption and use

 

    - Evaluation of FOSS software, including comparisons with proprietary
software, in industry and government

    - Use and acceptance of FOSS; organizational policies

    - The role of FOSS-oriented foundations

    - Dissemination, redistribution and crowdsourcing of FOSS systems

    - Expanding scientific research and technology development methods
through openness

    - Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development 

 

-FOSS practices and methods

 

    - New experiences with FOSS development tools and practices

    - Knowledge and documentation management in FOSS  

 

- Economic, organizational and social issues related to FOSS

 

    - Economic analysis of FOSS

    - Maturity models of FOSS

    - FOSS in public sector

    - FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing

    - Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS 

 

- FOSS and education

                - Teaching FOSS to people of all ages and backgrounds

                - Use of FOSS in education

                

-FOSS platforms and toolkits

                - FOSS Data processing and storage platforms

                - FOSS environments for cloud computing

                - FOSS business intelligence toolkits

                - FOSS business packages (CRM, ERP, HRM)

                - FOSS collaboration and communication environments

                

** Important Dates

 

- Extended Paper Submission: January 17, 2015

- Notification to Authors: February 14, 2015

- Camera ready due: February 28, 2015

 

** Authors Instructions

 

Papers submitted to OSS 2015 must not have been published elsewhere and must
not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under
consideration for OSS 2015.

 

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the Springer Formatting
Guidelines (LNCS)
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). You may
utilize the templates provided in our website. Submissions must be in PDF
format with a limit of 10 pages for each paper.

 

All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please
remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship or
affiliations. Authors of accepted papers will be therefore be required to
sign a copyright transfer (as well as register for and attend the
conference).

 

When your paper is finished, submit it using EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2015) according to the
submission deadlines.

 

** Organizing Committee

 

* General Chair

- Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Program Chairs

- Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

- Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

* Regional Publicity Chairs

- Moataz Ahmed, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

- Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
USA

- Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia

- Francesco Zavatarelli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Organizing Chairs

- Fulvio Frati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

- Nadia Fusar Poli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Web Chair

- Fulvio Frati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Program Committee

- Chintan Amrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands

- Luciano Baresi, DEIB – Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy

- Francesco Di Cerbo, SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, France

- Jonas Gamalielsson, University of Skovde, Sweden

- Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

- Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden

- Abram Hindle, University of Alberta, Canada

- Netta Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland

- Stefan Koch, Bogazici University, Turkey

- Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brasil

- Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

- Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

- Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- John Noll, Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland

- Mauro Pezzè, University of Lugano, Switzerland

- Stephane Ribas, INRIA, France

- Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Italy

- Steve Schmid, Open Technology Foundation, Australia

- Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

- Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

- Megan Squire, Elon University, USA

- Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero – University of Limerick, Ireland

- Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

- Davide Tosi, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy

- Stefano Zacchiroli, Université de Paris Diderot, France

 

 

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From Elvana.THACI at coe.int  Thu Jan  8 05:44:33 2015
From: Elvana.THACI at coe.int (THACI Elvana)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:44:33 +0000
Subject: [governance] Statement by Council of Europe Secretary General
 Jagland: 'Charlie Hebdo' massacre, attack on democratic society'
Message-ID: <2BC8C1F8EE620E4DBF566BCF5F804CE39116E414@V-Linguistix00.key.coe.int>

Dear IGC members,

For your information, here is the statement issued by Mr Thorbjørn Jagland, Council of Europe Secretary General on the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

"I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrendous attack on innocent people at the Charlie Hebdo in Paris today.

This terrorist attack was clearly targeted to hit journalists and undermine freedom of expression. It was an outrageous attack on our democratic and European values. It is another example of the threatening radicalization of our societies, which we must resolutely resist.

Europe's governments and institutions, including the Council of Europe, have to take all possible action to better protect journalists and media freedom in future.

I extend my condolences to the people of France and especially to the victims' families and friends."

The Council of Europe will hold a commemorative ceremony to honour the victims on Friday.
The statement is also available at this address<http://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/council-of-europe-secretary-general-shocked-by-news-of-shooting-in-paris>.

Elvana Thaçi
Administrator, Media & Internet
Council of Europe
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From kichango at gmail.com  Thu Jan  8 08:02:55 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:02:55 +0000
Subject: [governance] Re: IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v_HZ3wEBsi3bUDGPfH=O_WyGBzpUa=RKMqAkUbTBPqNvA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CACTo+v_HZ3wEBsi3bUDGPfH=O_WyGBzpUa=RKMqAkUbTBPqNvA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CACTo+v8-ZiVEJzw6Mn9Xy9y-TzK-xsEdNPxbN=eKaOEccB5Ldw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear all,

My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who most
probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
person.

Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using your
human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is this:

1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related to
this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email invitation
to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator election"

Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included in
the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:

2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record and
make sure you receive your ballot.

If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send you a
reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to participate in
survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search engine.)

Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,

Mawaki


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>
> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system reports
> you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account. I just
> sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject line:
> Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let us
> know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>
> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>
> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>
> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have
> hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the
> IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the
> full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let
> me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to
> the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>
> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as being
> subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
> the last 2 months?
>
> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
> for your understanding.
>
> Best,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>
>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
>> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>> coordinator.
>>
>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace me
>> as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For the
>> first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre Williams
>> as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>
>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>
>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
>> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>
>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>> =====================================
>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>> Founder
>> DIGILEXIS
>> http://www.digilexis.com
>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
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>> Skype: digilexis
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Thu Jan  8 08:04:44 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:34:44 +0530
Subject: [governance] Re: [bestbits] A BR view of multistkaholder
 processes...
In-Reply-To: <54AD47FF.1000803@cafonso.ca>
References: <54AD47FF.1000803@cafonso.ca>
Message-ID: <54AE806C.3090703@itforchange.net>

Dear Carlos,

Thanks for the very useful article, and for posting it here. (For those 
who would like to read it, i recommend downloading the full magazine and 
then reading the article. It is very difficult to read it online.)

I am happy that finally multistakeholderism (MSism) is being openly 
discussed and argued for, in formal write ups.

I will like to make the following points about your article, and the 
comparison it makes between the evolution of MSism in other areas of 
global governance, largely within the UN system, and the MSism of the IG 
world, of which the Net Mundial Initiative is the latest version.

My main point here is that MS models hitherto, including all historical 
examples that you have discussed, have always developed in relation to a 
larger and clearly more formal and authoritative decision making 
structure - and in all cases you discuss, such a structure has been a UN 
body. In fact your article clearly speaks of the relationship of MS 
structures to decision making bodies.

(quote beings)
*Connection to Decision-Makers*

Multistakeholder bodies can interact in different ways with official 
decision-making processes at the international, regional, or national 
levels. Some MSM bodies are purely informative. Others can develop best 
practices concerning a particular issue and present them to governments. 
Multistakeholder bodies can also conduct participatory monitoring of 
issues that affect society, such as a deforestation index or the quality 
of Internet access provided by telecommunications operators.

(ends)

Here, you lay our three functions of an MS system - providing 
information and best practices (together, inputs) to decision makers, 
and monitoring and assessments to hold policy makers accountable.

All this is very well, and is what is generally called as participatory 
democracy. In fact the Agenda 21  that you quote as being the " first UN 
document to include different stakeholders’ roles in a global agreement 
" is an excellent documenton participatory democracy. (Incidentally, it 
neither speaks of MSism, nor even the word 'stakeholder'.)  Please see 
what kind of different roles it gives to different groups (which you may 
like to call 'stakeholders'). Especially see how NGOs and business are 
seen so differently, and how the civil society group consists of so many 
different parts and business/ industry is just one. And also of course 
all the roles of all these groups stand is a specific relationship to 
policy makers.

These are the values and principles that civil society has long fought 
for - call it participatory democracy, or stakeholder consultations.. 
However, and this is my principal point, the MSism that we see in the IG 
space is not at all this kind of participatory democracy/ stakeholder 
involvement . I of course speak of the *equal footing MS model* that is 
we hear spoken of everywhere, and which is now meant to be embodied in 
the NetMundial Initiative.

This new post-democracy model cannot be derived from the growth of 
participatory democracy in global governance that your papers tries to 
derive it from... In this regard, I judge as inadequate, if not a bit 
misleading, the premise - conclusion logic of your paper.

The new equal footing (EF-MS) MS model, rather than work in relation to 
a legitimate policy making structure, seeks to anticipate and subvert 
it. We know that almost all NMI enthusiasts are firmly against 
development of an Internet policy venue inside the UN, or in any other 
democratic/ legitimate manner. It - the EF-MS model - seeks to itself be 
the policy giver to the world in this area, which is the real problem 
with equal footing MSism and with the NetMundial Initiative. In the 
circumstances, it is quite inappropriate to connect its evolution to 
that of participatory democracy in UN institutions, including that for 
sustainable development.

Now, you may say that neither is the equal footing MS model (nor the 
NMI) into anticipating and preventing legitimate policy work at the UN, 
nor is it even at all about policy work. Lets listen to the main 
flag-bearer of the NMI idea, Fadi Chehade, defending the need for the NMI.

"We need to make sure that next June we don't have delegation after 
delegation going to UNGA [the United Nations General Assembly] saying 
there are no solutions to these issues. "
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/im_begging_you_to_join_netmundial_initiative_gets_desperate/?page=2

Clear attempt to anticipate and prevent UN based policy development, or 
do we need even clearer proof! And since UN bodies develop policy, the 
proposed 'existing solutions', in the form of NMI's work, will in effect 
be policy stuff - there is a saying , you cannot compare apples to oranges.

Of course, there is considerable verbal acrobatics going on to hide and 
whitewash the (policy) intentions of the NMI. This is what another NMI 
champion Wolfgang says (on the NMI website):

"The NetMundial Initiative will bring solutions to the broad range of 
Internet related policy problems."

Again, an apples and oranges problem... If you bring solutions to policy 
problems, then they must be come kinds of policies, right! (One should 
be more considerate to ordinary language, but this is the new age PR.)

(One good thing about the NMI is that it is *equal footing MSism* in 
flesh and blood and so one can effectively critique it, unless the 
earlier slippery non-theories and non-substance of equal footing MSism, 
other than employing it as an self-evident and self-justifying creed).

In sum, I am unable to agree with your connecting the current versions 
of equal footing MSism, intending policy work, as a continuation of the 
evolution of some tendencies in the global governance system, beginning 
prominently with the Rio Summit on sustainable development. In fact, I 
believe that they go in exactly the opposite directions - one as 
deepening democracy and other as subverting it (equal footing MSism). I 
have above pointed to the chief structural difference between the two 
which can be observed empirically - that, one is based an a specific 
relationship to legitimate policy making systems and other seeks to 
anticipate and prevent them.

best regards

parminder



On Wednesday 07 January 2015 08:21 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> Just published in the IEEE Internet Computing journal:
>
> http://online.qmags.com/IC0115?sessionID=BD7A2B7CBEF89C57D8F47874E&cid=3193795&eid=19210#pg76&mode2
>
> The Origin and Evolution of Multistakeholder Models
>
> Virgilio Almeida - Federal University of Minas Gerais
> Demi Getschko - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
> Carlos Afonso - Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro
>
> Abstract: Various domains have adopted multistakeholder models (MSMs) to
> address and deal with global challenges, such as sustainability,
> environment, climate, and Internet governance. Here, the authors examine
> the use of MSMs and their historical evolution, fundamentals, and
> characteristics. They also present examples of how such models are used
> in the global Internet governance ecosystem. Finally, the article
> presents a series of research questions that can be tackled to improve
> the efficiency of multistakeholder processes.
>
> frt rgds
>
> --c.a.
>
>
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Thu Jan  8 09:10:05 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:40:05 +0530
Subject: [governance] Re: [bestbits] A BR view of multistkaholder
 processes...
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pa
On Thursday 08 January 2015 06:34 PM, parminder wrote:
> Dear Carlos,
>
> Thanks for the very useful article, and for posting it here. (For 
> those who would like to read it, i recommend downloading the full 
> magazine and then reading the article. It is very difficult to read it 
> online.)
>
> I am happy that finally multistakeholderism (MSism) is being openly 
> discussed and argued for, in formal write ups.
>
> I will like to make the following points about your article, and the 
> comparison it makes between the evolution of MSism in other areas of 
> global governance, largely within the UN system, and the MSism of the 
> IG world, of which the Net Mundial Initiative is the latest version.
>
> My main point here is that MS models hitherto, including all 
> historical examples that you have discussed, have always developed in 
> relation to a larger and clearly more formal and authoritative 
> decision making structure - and in all cases you discuss, such a 
> structure has been a UN body.

In fact, since the article mentions the CGI.Br model, and also, 
unfortunately, CGI guys seem to be driven to root for the NMI by the 
rightfulness and success of the CGI model,  it must be pointed out that 
CGI is what is it because it works clearly within and in relation to the 
state of Brazil, with its clear policy making systems and internal 
sovereignty. The equal footing MS model for IG at the global level, a la 
NMI, however, comes in and seeks to promote a global policy vacuum. This 
is not a small difference, it a basic structural one, which makes all 
the difference. Sorry to say, but one just hopes that the CGI people get 
this point.

On the other hand, even within the commanding overall structure of the 
Brazil state, there are 9 gov members in the 21 member CGI -- how is 
this equal footing? As you would see from the Commission for sustainable 
development  (CSD) participatory structures, the civil society group is 
so much vaster than business, which has just one small space. How is 
Internet different - how is it less significant to the lives of all 
people - why for instance media persons are not a separate group, as 
farmers are in the CSD, or women, as women are in the CSD? Because, the 
NMI is a plain and simple capture, by the US led status quoists, to 
prevent any global Internet normative and policy work. And 'they' spun 
the fable as suits them. To ask questions is of course to be on the side 
of China and Iran, the dark forces that are the ones that threaten the 
global Internet, not the US!

parminder


> In fact your article clearly speaks of the relationship of MS 
> structures to decision making bodies.
>
> (quote beings)
> *Connection to Decision-Makers*
>
> Multistakeholder bodies can interact in different ways with official 
> decision-making processes at the international, regional, or national 
> levels. Some MSM bodies are purely informative. Others can develop 
> best practices concerning a particular issue and present them to 
> governments. Multistakeholder bodies can also conduct participatory 
> monitoring of issues that affect society, such as a deforestation 
> index or the quality of Internet access provided by telecommunications 
> operators.
>
> (ends)
>
> Here, you lay our three functions of an MS system - providing 
> information and best practices (together, inputs) to decision makers, 
> and monitoring and assessments to hold policy makers accountable.
>
> All this is very well, and is what is generally called as 
> participatory democracy. In fact the Agenda 21  that you quote as 
> being the " first UN document to include different stakeholders’ roles 
> in a global agreement " is an excellent documenton participatory 
> democracy. (Incidentally, it neither speaks of MSism, nor even the 
> word 'stakeholder'.) Please see what kind of different roles it gives 
> to different groups (which you may like to call 'stakeholders'). 
> Especially see how NGOs and business are seen so differently, and how 
> the civil society group consists of so many different parts and 
> business/ industry is just one. And also of course all the roles of 
> all these groups stand is a specific relationship to policy makers.
>
> These are the values and principles that civil society has long fought 
> for - call it participatory democracy, or stakeholder consultations.. 
> However, and this is my principal point, the MSism that we see in the 
> IG space is not at all this kind of participatory democracy/ 
> stakeholder involvement . I of course speak of the *equal footing MS 
> model* that is we hear spoken of everywhere, and which is now meant to 
> be embodied in the NetMundial Initiative.
>
> This new post-democracy model cannot be derived from the growth of 
> participatory democracy in global governance that your papers tries to 
> derive it from... In this regard, I judge as inadequate, if not a bit 
> misleading, the premise - conclusion logic of your paper.
>
> The new equal footing (EF-MS) MS model, rather than work in relation 
> to a legitimate policy making structure, seeks to anticipate and 
> subvert it. We know that almost all NMI enthusiasts are firmly against 
> development of an Internet policy venue inside the UN, or in any other 
> democratic/ legitimate manner. It - the EF-MS model - seeks to itself 
> be the policy giver to the world in this area, which is the real 
> problem with equal footing MSism and with the NetMundial Initiative. 
> In the circumstances, it is quite inappropriate to connect its 
> evolution to that of participatory democracy in UN institutions, 
> including that for sustainable development.
>
> Now, you may say that neither is the equal footing MS model (nor the 
> NMI) into anticipating and preventing legitimate policy work at the 
> UN, nor is it even at all about policy work. Lets listen to the main 
> flag-bearer of the NMI idea, Fadi Chehade, defending the need for the NMI.
>
> "We need to make sure that next June we don't have delegation after 
> delegation going to UNGA [the United Nations General Assembly] saying 
> there are no solutions to these issues. "
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/im_begging_you_to_join_netmundial_initiative_gets_desperate/?page=2
>
> Clear attempt to anticipate and prevent UN based policy development, 
> or do we need even clearer proof! And since UN bodies develop policy, 
> the proposed 'existing solutions', in the form of NMI's work, will in 
> effect be policy stuff - there is a saying , you cannot compare apples 
> to oranges.
>
> Of course, there is considerable verbal acrobatics going on to hide 
> and whitewash the (policy) intentions of the NMI. This is what another 
> NMI champion Wolfgang says (on the NMI website):
>
> "The NetMundial Initiative will bring solutions to the broad range of 
> Internet related policy problems."
>
> Again, an apples and oranges problem... If you bring solutions to 
> policy problems, then they must be come kinds of policies, right! (One 
> should be more considerate to ordinary language, but this is the new 
> age PR.)
>
> (One good thing about the NMI is that it is *equal footing MSism* in 
> flesh and blood and so one can effectively critique it, unless the 
> earlier slippery non-theories and non-substance of equal footing 
> MSism, other than employing it as an self-evident and self-justifying 
> creed).
>
> In sum, I am unable to agree with your connecting the current versions 
> of equal footing MSism, intending policy work, as a continuation of 
> the evolution of some tendencies in the global governance system, 
> beginning prominently with the Rio Summit on sustainable development. 
> In fact, I believe that they go in exactly the opposite directions - 
> one as deepening democracy and other as subverting it (equal footing 
> MSism). I have above pointed to the chief structural difference 
> between the two which can be observed empirically - that, one is based 
> an a specific relationship to legitimate policy making systems and 
> other seeks to anticipate and prevent them.
>
> best regards
>
> parminder
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 07 January 2015 08:21 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>> Just published in the IEEE Internet Computing journal:
>>
>> http://online.qmags.com/IC0115?sessionID=BD7A2B7CBEF89C57D8F47874E&cid=3193795&eid=19210#pg76&mode2
>>
>> The Origin and Evolution of Multistakeholder Models
>>
>> Virgilio Almeida - Federal University of Minas Gerais
>> Demi Getschko - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
>> Carlos Afonso - Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro
>>
>> Abstract: Various domains have adopted multistakeholder models (MSMs) to
>> address and deal with global challenges, such as sustainability,
>> environment, climate, and Internet governance. Here, the authors examine
>> the use of MSMs and their historical evolution, fundamentals, and
>> characteristics. They also present examples of how such models are used
>> in the global Internet governance ecosystem. Finally, the article
>> presents a series of research questions that can be tackled to improve
>> the efficiency of multistakeholder processes.
>>
>> frt rgds
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>>
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From ca at cafonso.ca  Thu Jan  8 15:45:38 2015
From: ca at cafonso.ca (Carlos Afonso)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:45:38 -0200
Subject: [governance] Re: [bestbits] A BR view of multistkaholder
 processes...
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Message-ID: <54AEEC72.8040903@cafonso.ca>

Thanks for your comments, Parm. I've just copied to the other authors as 
well.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 08-01-15 11:04, parminder wrote:
> Dear Carlos,
>
> Thanks for the very useful article, and for posting it here. (For those
> who would like to read it, i recommend downloading the full magazine and
> then reading the article. It is very difficult to read it online.)
>
> I am happy that finally multistakeholderism (MSism) is being openly
> discussed and argued for, in formal write ups.
>
> I will like to make the following points about your article, and the
> comparison it makes between the evolution of MSism in other areas of
> global governance, largely within the UN system, and the MSism of the IG
> world, of which the Net Mundial Initiative is the latest version.
>
> My main point here is that MS models hitherto, including all historical
> examples that you have discussed, have always developed in relation to a
> larger and clearly more formal and authoritative decision making
> structure - and in all cases you discuss, such a structure has been a UN
> body. In fact your article clearly speaks of the relationship of MS
> structures to decision making bodies.
>
> (quote beings)
> *Connection to Decision-Makers*
>
> Multistakeholder bodies can interact in different ways with official
> decision-making processes at the international, regional, or national
> levels. Some MSM bodies are purely informative. Others can develop best
> practices concerning a particular issue and present them to governments.
> Multistakeholder bodies can also conduct participatory monitoring of
> issues that affect society, such as a deforestation index or the quality
> of Internet access provided by telecommunications operators.
>
> (ends)
>
> Here, you lay our three functions of an MS system - providing
> information and best practices (together, inputs) to decision makers,
> and monitoring and assessments to hold policy makers accountable.
>
> All this is very well, and is what is generally called as participatory
> democracy. In fact the Agenda 21  that you quote as being the " first UN
> document to include different stakeholders’ roles in a global agreement
> " is an excellent documenton participatory democracy. (Incidentally, it
> neither speaks of MSism, nor even the word 'stakeholder'.)  Please see
> what kind of different roles it gives to different groups (which you may
> like to call 'stakeholders'). Especially see how NGOs and business are
> seen so differently, and how the civil society group consists of so many
> different parts and business/ industry is just one. And also of course
> all the roles of all these groups stand is a specific relationship to
> policy makers.
>
> These are the values and principles that civil society has long fought
> for - call it participatory democracy, or stakeholder consultations..
> However, and this is my principal point, the MSism that we see in the IG
> space is not at all this kind of participatory democracy/ stakeholder
> involvement . I of course speak of the *equal footing MS model* that is
> we hear spoken of everywhere, and which is now meant to be embodied in
> the NetMundial Initiative.
>
> This new post-democracy model cannot be derived from the growth of
> participatory democracy in global governance that your papers tries to
> derive it from... In this regard, I judge as inadequate, if not a bit
> misleading, the premise - conclusion logic of your paper.
>
> The new equal footing (EF-MS) MS model, rather than work in relation to
> a legitimate policy making structure, seeks to anticipate and subvert
> it. We know that almost all NMI enthusiasts are firmly against
> development of an Internet policy venue inside the UN, or in any other
> democratic/ legitimate manner. It - the EF-MS model - seeks to itself be
> the policy giver to the world in this area, which is the real problem
> with equal footing MSism and with the NetMundial Initiative. In the
> circumstances, it is quite inappropriate to connect its evolution to
> that of participatory democracy in UN institutions, including that for
> sustainable development.
>
> Now, you may say that neither is the equal footing MS model (nor the
> NMI) into anticipating and preventing legitimate policy work at the UN,
> nor is it even at all about policy work. Lets listen to the main
> flag-bearer of the NMI idea, Fadi Chehade, defending the need for the NMI.
>
> "We need to make sure that next June we don't have delegation after
> delegation going to UNGA [the United Nations General Assembly] saying
> there are no solutions to these issues. "
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/im_begging_you_to_join_netmundial_initiative_gets_desperate/?page=2
>
> Clear attempt to anticipate and prevent UN based policy development, or
> do we need even clearer proof! And since UN bodies develop policy, the
> proposed 'existing solutions', in the form of NMI's work, will in effect
> be policy stuff - there is a saying , you cannot compare apples to oranges.
>
> Of course, there is considerable verbal acrobatics going on to hide and
> whitewash the (policy) intentions of the NMI. This is what another NMI
> champion Wolfgang says (on the NMI website):
>
> "The NetMundial Initiative will bring solutions to the broad range of
> Internet related policy problems."
>
> Again, an apples and oranges problem... If you bring solutions to policy
> problems, then they must be come kinds of policies, right! (One should
> be more considerate to ordinary language, but this is the new age PR.)
>
> (One good thing about the NMI is that it is *equal footing MSism* in
> flesh and blood and so one can effectively critique it, unless the
> earlier slippery non-theories and non-substance of equal footing MSism,
> other than employing it as an self-evident and self-justifying creed).
>
> In sum, I am unable to agree with your connecting the current versions
> of equal footing MSism, intending policy work, as a continuation of the
> evolution of some tendencies in the global governance system, beginning
> prominently with the Rio Summit on sustainable development. In fact, I
> believe that they go in exactly the opposite directions - one as
> deepening democracy and other as subverting it (equal footing MSism). I
> have above pointed to the chief structural difference between the two
> which can be observed empirically - that, one is based an a specific
> relationship to legitimate policy making systems and other seeks to
> anticipate and prevent them.
>
> best regards
>
> parminder
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 07 January 2015 08:21 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>> Just published in the IEEE Internet Computing journal:
>>
>> http://online.qmags.com/IC0115?sessionID=BD7A2B7CBEF89C57D8F47874E&cid=3193795&eid=19210#pg76&mode2
>>
>> The Origin and Evolution of Multistakeholder Models
>>
>> Virgilio Almeida - Federal University of Minas Gerais
>> Demi Getschko - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
>> Carlos Afonso - Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro
>>
>> Abstract: Various domains have adopted multistakeholder models (MSMs) to
>> address and deal with global challenges, such as sustainability,
>> environment, climate, and Internet governance. Here, the authors examine
>> the use of MSMs and their historical evolution, fundamentals, and
>> characteristics. They also present examples of how such models are used
>> in the global Internet governance ecosystem. Finally, the article
>> presents a series of research questions that can be tackled to improve
>> the efficiency of multistakeholder processes.
>>
>> frt rgds
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>>
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From mueller at syr.edu  Sat Jan 10 04:30:12 2015
From: mueller at syr.edu (Milton L Mueller)
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 09:30:12 +0000
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and communications in
 Indian Magazine Diplomatist
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http://diplomatist.com/articles/article005.html

Milton L Mueller
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
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From wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de  Sat Jan 10 04:40:03 2015
From: wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Kleinw=E4chter=2C_Wolfgang=22?=)
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 10:40:03 +0100
Subject: AW: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and communications
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Thx. Milton,

good article, agree with your conclusion for an "alliance". Isn´t NMI a "stumbling step" in that direction?

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From ymshana2003 at gmail.com  Sun Jan 11 02:52:54 2015
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Thx. Milton,

good article, agree with your conclusion for an "alliance". Isn´t NMI a "stumbling step" in that direction?

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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Sun Jan 11 19:15:46 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (Jefsey)
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Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
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At 10:30 10/01/2015, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>http://diplomatist.com/articles/article005.html

Dear Milton,

this contribution of yours is brillant. With the only limitation that 
the Internet you describe does not exist except in some academic and 
political brains. This is probably the reason why the internet 
governance you call for is intellectually appealing but practically 
inneffective.

The real network is the catenet. It is the substructure of all the 
communications technologies [protocol set] (one of them under 
TCP/IPv4/6 being the internet) between billions of people assisted by 
their machines. The substructure, the operations, the utilization are 
paid by us the people with our work and/or our money. The only thing 
we do not govern is the governance of the tables (AS, IPs, CLASS 
"IN") of that technology and the resulting benefits.

Now, the internet designers have decided to subject themsleves to the 
USG (the USIETF fork is to await the NTIA decisions 
http://www.ietf.org/blog/2015/01/taking-a-step-towards-iana-transition) 
as some FLOSS users are oganizing to take that governance back and to 
control their machines, names, addresses, protocols and parameters.

It will certainly take some time, but I bet that they will go faster, 
cheaper and better than what the I*core did since 1986 and since the 
WSIS. With the help of national laws to support the national catenet 
sovereignty and its neutral, Libre/Free support of the different 
technologies such as the internet, ndn, sdns, interplus, etc. and 
common services such as the ML-DNS (multi-ledger/CLASS - like ICANN 
for the "IN" ICANN/NTIA CLASS), and the catenet addressing.

The internet was a great project documented by IEN 48. However, it 
was blocked in the mid-80s by the status-quo strategy due to the 
TCP/IP inability to support its intended second phase, the world 
needs now to see completed. Civil society and Accademics seemed to be 
a possible way to address that issue. It turns out that this is not 
the case and that the solution (with the OSI layer six presentation) 
demands a revision/extension of the architecture. The IAB has decided 
to engage that work from/in the stack. Some Libre and other national 
teams (IAB is now to be understood as US-IAB) consider that this can 
be achieved at that catenet fringe to fringe layer (i.e. 
independently from the transportation technology, as an extension of 
the user interoperating system).

This makes the future of the world digital ecosystem and of networks exciting.

jfc
   


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From kichango at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 05:05:03 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:05:03 +0000
Subject: [governance] Re: IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Dear All,

On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none of
the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
(regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
"None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
in the poll.

I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of their
right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now because
the person claims this is at least the second election he is making this
request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep track
of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are mostly
handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the request
might fall through the cracks again at the next election. Hopefully, we now
have a template including the "none" option which will be carried over into
the next elections.

I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
list needs to be aware of it.

Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,

Mawaki


On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
> person.
>
> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using your
> human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is this:
>
> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related to
> this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email invitation
> to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator election"
>
> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included in
> the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>
> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record and
> make sure you receive your ballot.
>
> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send you
> a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to participate
> in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search engine.)
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
> Best regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
>> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>
>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system reports
>> you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account. I just
>> sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject line:
>> Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let us
>> know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>
>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>
>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>
>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have
>> hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the
>> IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the
>> full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let
>> me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to
>> the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>
>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>> the last 2 months?
>>
>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
>> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
>> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
>> for your understanding.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>>
>>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
>>> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>>> coordinator.
>>>
>>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
>>> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For
>>> the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre
>>> Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>>
>>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>>
>>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation while
>>> you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>>
>>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>> =====================================
>>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>>> Founder
>>> DIGILEXIS
>>> http://www.digilexis.com
>>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
>>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>>> Skype: digilexis
>>> =====================================
>>>
>>
>>
>
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From remmyn at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 05:36:35 2015
From: remmyn at gmail.com (Remmy Nweke)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:36:35 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Thanks Mawaki
I think the right thing should have been to have abstain button rather than
None, which is very much discouraging for candidates and potentials
candidates.

It is sad that someone should be making such a request which I think is not
in the best interest of any organisation, let alone a consensus-based organ
like IG caucus.

What happens if we have a good number of None button on record? It will
send wrong signals.

So, I will prefer and propose Abstain to None.

I hope my point helps.

Regards and keep walking.
Remmy Nweke
@ITRealms

On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none of
> the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
> (regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
> "None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
> in the poll.
>
> I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of their
> right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now because
> the person claims this is at least the second election he is making this
> request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep track
> of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are mostly
> handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the request
> might fall through the cracks again at the next election. Hopefully, we now
> have a template including the "none" option which will be carried over into
> the next elections.
>
> I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
> hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
> difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
> issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
> email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
> list needs to be aware of it.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
> Best regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kichango at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
>> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
>> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
>> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
>> person.
>>
>> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using your
>> human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is this:
>>
>> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related to
>> this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email invitation
>> to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator
>> election"
>>
>> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included in
>> the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>>
>> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record
>> and make sure you receive your ballot.
>>
>> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send you
>> a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to participate
>> in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search engine.)
>>
>> Thank you for your understanding.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kichango at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
>>> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>>
>>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system reports
>>> you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account. I just
>>> sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject line:
>>> Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let us
>>> know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>>
>>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>
>>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>
>>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have
>>> hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the
>>> IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the
>>> full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let
>>> me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to
>>> the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>>
>>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>>> the last 2 months?
>>>
>>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
>>> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
>>> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
>>> for your understanding.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kichango at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>>>
>>>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome you
>>>> back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>>>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>>>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>>>> coordinator.
>>>>
>>>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
>>>> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For
>>>> the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre
>>>> Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>>>
>>>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>>>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>>>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>>>
>>>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation
>>>> while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>>>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>>>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>>>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>>>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>>>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>>>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>>>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>>>
>>>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mawaki
>>>>
>>>> =====================================
>>>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>>>> Founder
>>>> DIGILEXIS
>>>> http://www.digilexis.com
>>>> m.chango at digilexis.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','m.chango at digilexis.com');> | *kichango at gmail.com
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kichango at gmail.com');>*
>>>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>>>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>>>> Skype: digilexis
>>>> =====================================
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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From kichango at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 06:43:24 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:43:24 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Thanks Remmy, your point is well taken.
I personally agree with you. Anyone who would want to vote that way should
have at least nominated someone, if not themselves (and we generally do
share, before the closing of nomination deadline, the list of nominations
received to help them make such decision.)

The current formulation is what has been requested verbatim, so let us keep
it as a tentative solution for now and we can open the debate as to what
should be the preferred formulation going forward.
Regards,

Mawaki


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mawaki
> I think the right thing should have been to have abstain button rather
> than None, which is very much discouraging for candidates and potentials
> candidates.
>
> It is sad that someone should be making such a request which I think is
> not in the best interest of any organisation, let alone a consensus-based
> organ like IG caucus.
>
> What happens if we have a good number of None button on record? It will
> send wrong signals.
>
> So, I will prefer and propose Abstain to None.
>
> I hope my point helps.
>
> Regards and keep walking.
> Remmy Nweke
> @ITRealms
>
>
> On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none of
>> the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
>> (regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
>> "None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
>> in the poll.
>>
>> I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of their
>> right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now because
>> the person claims this is at least the second election he is making this
>> request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep track
>> of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are mostly
>> handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the request
>> might fall through the cracks again at the next election. Hopefully, we now
>> have a template including the "none" option which will be carried over into
>> the next elections.
>>
>> I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
>> hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
>> difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
>> issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
>> email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
>> list needs to be aware of it.
>>
>> Thank you for your understanding.
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
>>> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
>>> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
>>> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
>>> person.
>>>
>>> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using
>>> your human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is
>>> this:
>>>
>>> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related to
>>> this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email invitation
>>> to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC coordinator
>>> election"
>>>
>>> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included
>>> in the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>>>
>>> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record
>>> and make sure you receive your ballot.
>>>
>>> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send
>>> you a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to
>>> participate in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search
>>> engine.)
>>>
>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
>>>> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system
>>>> reports you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account.
>>>> I just sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject
>>>> line: Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let
>>>> us know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>
>>>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also have
>>>> hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in the
>>>> IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search the
>>>> full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and let
>>>> me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed to
>>>> the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>>>
>>>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>>>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>>>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>>>> the last 2 months?
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
>>>> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
>>>> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
>>>> for your understanding.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Mawaki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome
>>>>> you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>>>>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>>>>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>>>>> coordinator.
>>>>>
>>>>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins, replace
>>>>> me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and 2016. For
>>>>> the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms. Deirdre
>>>>> Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>>>>
>>>>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>>>>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>>>>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>>>>
>>>>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation
>>>>> while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>>>>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>>>>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>>>>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>>>>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>>>>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>>>>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>>>>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mawaki
>>>>>
>>>>> =====================================
>>>>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>>>>> Founder
>>>>> DIGILEXIS
>>>>> http://www.digilexis.com
>>>>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com*
>>>>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>>>>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>>>>> Skype: digilexis
>>>>> =====================================
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
> ____
> REMMY NWEKE,
> Lead Strategist/Group Executive Editor,
> DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
> (publishers of) DigitalSENSE Business News;
> ITREALMS, NaijaAgroNet
> (Multiple-award winning medium)
> Published by: DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
> Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza
> Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos
> M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475,
> T: @ITRealms <http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms>
> [Member, NIRA Executive Board]
> Author: A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria
> <https://www.facebook.com/adecadeofictreportageinnigeria>
> NDS Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) 2015 <
> http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng>- June 5
> Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable 2015 <http://www.ipv6forumnigeria.ng> - June 6
> @Welcome Centre Hotels. Register now. Email: remnekkv at gmail.com
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From fsylla at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 07:06:10 2015
From: fsylla at gmail.com (Fatimata Seye Sylla)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:06:10 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Hi Mawaki,

I have voted!

Well done, thank you
Fatimata
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From remmyn at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 09:23:05 2015
From: remmyn at gmail.com (Remmy Nweke)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:23:05 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Thanks Mawaki, hope the incoming coordinator will not by-pass this moving
forward.
rgds
Remmy

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Remmy, your point is well taken.
> I personally agree with you. Anyone who would want to vote that way should
> have at least nominated someone, if not themselves (and we generally do
> share, before the closing of nomination deadline, the list of nominations
> received to help them make such decision.)
>
> The current formulation is what has been requested verbatim, so let us
> keep it as a tentative solution for now and we can open the debate as to
> what should be the preferred formulation going forward.
> Regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mawaki
>> I think the right thing should have been to have abstain button rather
>> than None, which is very much discouraging for candidates and potentials
>> candidates.
>>
>> It is sad that someone should be making such a request which I think is
>> not in the best interest of any organisation, let alone a consensus-based
>> organ like IG caucus.
>>
>> What happens if we have a good number of None button on record? It will
>> send wrong signals.
>>
>> So, I will prefer and propose Abstain to None.
>>
>> I hope my point helps.
>>
>> Regards and keep walking.
>> Remmy Nweke
>> @ITRealms
>>
>>
>> On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none
>>> of the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
>>> (regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
>>> "None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
>>> in the poll.
>>>
>>> I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of
>>> their right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now
>>> because the person claims this is at least the second election he is making
>>> this request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep
>>> track of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are
>>> mostly handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the
>>> request might fall through the cracks again at the next election.
>>> Hopefully, we now have a template including the "none" option which will be
>>> carried over into the next elections.
>>>
>>> I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
>>> hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
>>> difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
>>> issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
>>> email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
>>> list needs to be aware of it.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
>>>> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
>>>> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
>>>> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
>>>> person.
>>>>
>>>> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using
>>>> your human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related
>>>> to this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email
>>>> invitation to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC
>>>> coordinator election"
>>>>
>>>> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included
>>>> in the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>>>>
>>>> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record
>>>> and make sure you receive your ballot.
>>>>
>>>> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send
>>>> you a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to
>>>> participate in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search
>>>> engine.)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mawaki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
>>>>> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system
>>>>> reports you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account.
>>>>> I just sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject
>>>>> line: Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let
>>>>> us know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also
>>>>> have hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in
>>>>> the IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search
>>>>> the full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and
>>>>> let me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed
>>>>> to the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>>>>
>>>>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>>>>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>>>>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>>>>> the last 2 months?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
>>>>> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
>>>>> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
>>>>> for your understanding.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mawaki
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome
>>>>>> you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>>>>>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>>>>>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>>>>>> coordinator.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins,
>>>>>> replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and
>>>>>> 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms.
>>>>>> Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>>>>>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>>>>>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation
>>>>>> while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>>>>>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>>>>>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>>>>>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>>>>>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>>>>>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>>>>>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>>>>>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mawaki
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =====================================
>>>>>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>>>>>> Founder
>>>>>> DIGILEXIS
>>>>>> http://www.digilexis.com
>>>>>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com*
>>>>>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>>>>>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>>>>>> Skype: digilexis
>>>>>> =====================================
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> ____
>> REMMY NWEKE,
>> Lead Strategist/Group Executive Editor,
>> DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
>> (publishers of) DigitalSENSE Business News;
>> ITREALMS, NaijaAgroNet
>> (Multiple-award winning medium)
>> Published by: DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
>> Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza
>> Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos
>> M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475,
>> T: @ITRealms <http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms>
>> [Member, NIRA Executive Board]
>> Author: A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria
>> <https://www.facebook.com/adecadeofictreportageinnigeria>
>> NDS Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) 2015 <
>> http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng>- June 5
>> Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable 2015 <http://www.ipv6forumnigeria.ng> - June 6
>> @Welcome Centre Hotels. Register now. Email: remnekkv at gmail.com
>> _____________________________________________________________________
>> *Confidentiality Notice:* The information in this document and
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>> are confidential and may also be privileged information. It is intended
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>> responsibility for the contents of this e-mail. If you are not the
>> intended
>> recipient, please notify me immediately, then delete this document and do
>> not disclose the contents of this document to any other person, nor make
>> any copies. Violators may face court persecution.
>>
>>
>


-- 
____
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Lead Strategist/Group Executive Editor,
DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
(publishers of) DigitalSENSE Business News;
ITREALMS, NaijaAgroNet
(Multiple-award winning medium)
Published by: DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza
Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos
M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475,
T: @ITRealms <http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms>
[Member, NIRA Executive Board]
Author: A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria
<https://www.facebook.com/adecadeofictreportageinnigeria>
NDS Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) 2015 <
http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng>- June 5
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From compsoftnet at gmail.com  Mon Jan 12 10:50:21 2015
From: compsoftnet at gmail.com (Akinremi Peter Taiwo)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:50:21 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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	<CAMc__orezWfCu09cCHD8z_3y3kEvNaXXVFF+TABMVuH4gyiCDA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks Mawaki for the good works.
On Jan 12, 2015 3:23 PM, "Remmy Nweke" <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mawaki, hope the incoming coordinator will not by-pass this moving
> forward.
> rgds
> Remmy
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Remmy, your point is well taken.
>> I personally agree with you. Anyone who would want to vote that way
>> should have at least nominated someone, if not themselves (and we generally
>> do share, before the closing of nomination deadline, the list of
>> nominations received to help them make such decision.)
>>
>> The current formulation is what has been requested verbatim, so let us
>> keep it as a tentative solution for now and we can open the debate as to
>> what should be the preferred formulation going forward.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Mawaki
>>> I think the right thing should have been to have abstain button rather
>>> than None, which is very much discouraging for candidates and potentials
>>> candidates.
>>>
>>> It is sad that someone should be making such a request which I think is
>>> not in the best interest of any organisation, let alone a consensus-based
>>> organ like IG caucus.
>>>
>>> What happens if we have a good number of None button on record? It will
>>> send wrong signals.
>>>
>>> So, I will prefer and propose Abstain to None.
>>>
>>> I hope my point helps.
>>>
>>> Regards and keep walking.
>>> Remmy Nweke
>>> @ITRealms
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none
>>>> of the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
>>>> (regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
>>>> "None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
>>>> in the poll.
>>>>
>>>> I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of
>>>> their right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now
>>>> because the person claims this is at least the second election he is making
>>>> this request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep
>>>> track of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are
>>>> mostly handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the
>>>> request might fall through the cracks again at the next election.
>>>> Hopefully, we now have a template including the "none" option which will be
>>>> carried over into the next elections.
>>>>
>>>> I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
>>>> hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
>>>> difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
>>>> issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
>>>> email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
>>>> list needs to be aware of it.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mawaki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
>>>>> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
>>>>> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
>>>>> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
>>>>> person.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using
>>>>> your human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is
>>>>> this:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related
>>>>> to this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email
>>>>> invitation to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC
>>>>> coordinator election"
>>>>>
>>>>> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included
>>>>> in the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record
>>>>> and make sure you receive your ballot.
>>>>>
>>>>> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send
>>>>> you a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to
>>>>> participate in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search
>>>>> engine.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mawaki
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not
>>>>>> received their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system
>>>>>> reports you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account.
>>>>>> I just sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject
>>>>>> line: Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let
>>>>>> us know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also
>>>>>> have hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in
>>>>>> the IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search
>>>>>> the full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and
>>>>>> let me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed
>>>>>> to the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>>>>>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>>>>>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>>>>>> the last 2 months?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and
>>>>>> be clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at
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From bzs at world.std.com  Mon Jan 12 13:50:28 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:50:28 -0500
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist
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Reading the article what strikes me is: How is the internet different,
fundamentally, from the voice or sms telephone networks (which most of
the internet travels on), or postal and package carriers, as a few
examples which come to mind?

They're all indepedent systems interconnected by some agreement of
protocols. For example sharing of undersea cables or mutual
recognition of postage.

Something which does distinguish them is that there seems to be much
less concern about regulating the content of these other
networks. Generally just customs, import/export regulation, and of
course any overt criminal content in all cases.

So we are led to a paradox raised implicitly by the article:

The internet is different because it resists regulation of its content
by any centralized, typically sovereign, actors. This is because its
control is distributed in super-sovereign or extra-sovereign patterns.

Yet it is the internet's very identifiable control points such as the
DNS system's single root-structured (in practice, not in theory)
management which causes us to worry about control and who shall
administer that control.

So, it is distributed and independent of sovereign control, except
when it isn't?

I think this can be repaired with a prefix of "we would prefer it
were..."  rather than trying to create this illusion that there is
anything inherent in the internet which resists control, any more than
my first examples, voice networks etc.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

The World              | bzs at TheWorld.com           | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD        | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada
Software Tool & Die    | Public Access Internet     | SINCE 1989     *oo*

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From lmcknigh at syr.edu  Mon Jan 12 15:46:25 2015
From: lmcknigh at syr.edu (Lee W McKnight)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:46:25 +0000
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist
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Barry,

Not to be pedantic...but then I am a prof so I guess I should not apologize: google 'statistical multiplexing'

Which explains why we now speak of voice or even tiny sms/instant messages over IP vs in their native telecom formats...

Lee

PS: And to reply to Jefsey's critique of Milton's article....there is the Internet and much more around the Internet; much of - that- can reasonably be governed/managed and be legally controlled by the usual suspect national legal arrangements, no doubt. But starting your critique by claiming the Internet went off the rails in 1986 when...the usual suspect national authorities (including USG/DOD) and ITU and EU and Japanese governments were all trying to strangle the strange new...statistically multiplexed beast in the cradle, in favor of a more controlled/tarriffed open systems interconnection model of the future...well sorry you seem to neglkect the 3 billion or so now free to chat about whatever they want now in ways they could not, back in the day.

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Subject: Re: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist

Reading the article what strikes me is: How is the internet different,
fundamentally, from the voice or sms telephone networks (which most of
the internet travels on), or postal and package carriers, as a few
examples which come to mind?

They're all indepedent systems interconnected by some agreement of
protocols. For example sharing of undersea cables or mutual
recognition of postage.

Something which does distinguish them is that there seems to be much
less concern about regulating the content of these other
networks. Generally just customs, import/export regulation, and of
course any overt criminal content in all cases.

So we are led to a paradox raised implicitly by the article:

The internet is different because it resists regulation of its content
by any centralized, typically sovereign, actors. This is because its
control is distributed in super-sovereign or extra-sovereign patterns.

Yet it is the internet's very identifiable control points such as the
DNS system's single root-structured (in practice, not in theory)
management which causes us to worry about control and who shall
administer that control.

So, it is distributed and independent of sovereign control, except
when it isn't?

I think this can be repaired with a prefix of "we would prefer it
were..."  rather than trying to create this illusion that there is
anything inherent in the internet which resists control, any more than
my first examples, voice networks etc.

--
        -Barry Shein

The World              | bzs at TheWorld.com           | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD        | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada
Software Tool & Die    | Public Access Internet     | SINCE 1989     *oo*


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From mueller at syr.edu  Mon Jan 12 16:33:47 2015
From: mueller at syr.edu (Milton L Mueller)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:33:47 +0000
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist
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> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Dear Milton,
> 
> this contribution of yours is brillant. 

Thanks. That was the only part of your message I understood. 
;-)

--MM


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From bzs at world.std.com  Mon Jan 12 16:45:40 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:45:40 -0500
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
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On January 12, 2015 at 20:46 lmcknigh at syr.edu (Lee W McKnight) wrote:
 > Barry,
 > 
 > Not to be pedantic...but then I am a prof so I guess I should not apologize: google 'statistical multiplexing'

Not to be pedantic, but in a previous life I spent about 10 years as a
lecturer in computer science in Boston University's Dept of Math & CS,
and have taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Govt, by invitation.

And have run a commercial ISP probably longer than anyone on the
planet earth, since 1989, see:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_%28Internet_service_provider%29

You can look at a brief overview, including pubs, invited talks, etc
here:

  www.TheWorld.com/~bzs

(do you ever spend even one microsecond wondering about the
credentials of the other person before suggesting they google basic
terms?  Perhaps you need to do some googling of your own?)

 > 
 > Which explains why we now speak of voice or even tiny sms/instant messages over IP vs in their native telecom formats...

That's irrelevant.

Internet traffic travels over the international telephony network much
of which has been repurposed for internet traffic but is often much
the same as the historical voice network particularly in management
and structure (technology details change but this isn't about copper
vs fiber I hope.)

That they can (and do) float voice traffic over IP is not the
interesting point.

The interesting point is that it's almost all still owned and managed
by companies with names like AT&T, Verizon, and the various PTTs
internationally, or similar where de-monopolization has
occurred. Companies which by and large exist within sovereign
political boundaries, often heavily regulated or even state-owned.

Particularly though certainly not exclusively the Tier 1 core network
fabric. They also of course control nearly all the mobile traffic,
both data and voice.

It's the same people (metonymically speaking), with some notable
exceptions, as controlled the voice telephony network over the past
100 years (perhaps hyperbolic but roughly speaking) with largely the
same overall organization particularly across national boundaries.

Layered above this is a service, what we call the internet data
network, with its own organization.

The question is where are the control points and boundaries and are
they as sovereign-independent as is being portrayed?

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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From bzs at world.std.com  Mon Jan 12 18:36:54 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:36:54 -0500
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist
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We might just as well use the ISO 7-layer model to talk about this,
no?

Nonetheless I can imagine a view by AT&T et al that the internet is
largely just another layered service to them (and others), like E911
or various multi-drop private branch exchange systems.

        -Barry Shein

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On January 13, 2015 at 00:11 daj at daj.dj (daj) wrote:
 > At 19:50 12/01/2015, Barry Shein wrote:
 > >Reading the article what strikes me is: How is the internet different,
 > >fundamentally, from the voice or sms telephone 
 > >networks (which most ofthe internet travels on), 
 > >or postal and package carriers, as a few
 > >examples which come to mind?
 > 
 > Dear Barry,
 > 
 > this is very interesting question as it shows 
 > that what is of main interest in the internet 
 > phenomena and its governance is not the network 
 > but the digital nature of a global pervasiveness 
 > (like radio, money, etc.). The network aspects are at three strata:
 > 
 > - lower catenet layers: the layers shared with other networks, like telephone.
 > - middle layers (end to end protocols) that are 
 > specific to technologies (like the internet, 
 > Myrinet, Ethernet, Infiniband, NDN, etc.).
 > - fringe to fringe upper-layers extended services 
 > (like security, authentication, IA, µpayment, etc. etc)
 > 
 > The lower layer is locally oriented (states). The 
 > fringe to fringe layer is at individually 
 > orientfed (civil society, Free/Libre). The end to 
 > end layer is commercially managed i.e. depending on markets (cf. RFC 6852).
 > 
 > jfc
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > >They're all indepedent systems interconnected by some agreement of
 > >protocols. For example sharing of undersea cables or
 > >recognition of postage.
 > >
 > >Something which does distinguish them is that there seems to be much
 > >less concern about regulating the content of these other
 > >networks. Generally just customs, import/export regulation, and of
 > >course any overt criminal content in all cases.
 > >
 > >So we are led to a paradox raised implicitly by the article:
 > >
 > >The internet is different because it resists regulation of its content
 > >by any centralized, typically sovereign, actors. This is because its
 > >control is distributed in super-sovereign or extra-sovereign patterns.
 > >
 > >Yet it is the internet's very identifiable control points such as the
 > >DNS system's single root-structured (in practice, not in theory)
 > >management which causes us to worry about control and who shall
 > >administer that control.
 > >
 > >So, it is distributed and independent of sovereign control, except
 > >when it isn't?
 > >
 > >I think this can be repaired with a prefix of "we would prefer it
 > >were..."  rather than trying to create this illusion that there is
 > >anything inherent in the internet which resists control, any more than
 > >my first examples, voice networks etc.
 > >
 > >--
 > >         -Barry Shein
 > >
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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Mon Jan 12 19:55:12 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (JFC Morfin)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:55:12 +0100
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
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At 19:50 12/01/2015, Barry Shein wrote:
>Reading the article what strikes me is: How is the internet different,
>fundamentally, from the voice or sms telephone 
>networks (which most ofthe internet travels on), 
>or postal and package carriers, as a few
>examples which come to mind?

Dear Barry,

this is very interesting question as it shows 
that what is of main interest in the internet 
phenomena and its governance is not the network 
but the digital nature of a global pervasiveness 
(like radio, money, etc.). The network aspects are at three strata:

- lower catenet layers: the layers shared with other networks, like telephone.
- middle layers (end to end protocols) that are 
specific to technologies (like the internet, 
Myrinet, Ethernet, Infiniband, NDN, etc.).
- fringe to fringe upper-layers extended services 
(like security, authentication, IA, µpayment, etc. etc)

The lower layer is locally oriented (states). The 
fringe to fringe layer is at individually 
orientfed (civil society, Free/Libre). The end to 
end layer is commercially managed i.e. depending on markets (cf. RFC 6852).

jfc




>They're all indepedent systems interconnected by some agreement of
>protocols. For example sharing of undersea cables or
>recognition of postage.
>
>Something which does distinguish them is that there seems to be much
>less concern about regulating the content of these other
>networks. Generally just customs, import/export regulation, and of
>course any overt criminal content in all cases.
>
>So we are led to a paradox raised implicitly by the article:
>
>The internet is different because it resists regulation of its content
>by any centralized, typically sovereign, actors. This is because its
>control is distributed in super-sovereign or extra-sovereign patterns.
>
>Yet it is the internet's very identifiable control points such as the
>DNS system's single root-structured (in practice, not in theory)
>management which causes us to worry about control and who shall
>administer that control.
>
>So, it is distributed and independent of sovereign control, except
>when it isn't?
>
>I think this can be repaired with a prefix of "we would prefer it
>were..."  rather than trying to create this illusion that there is
>anything inherent in the internet which resists control, any more than
>my first examples, voice networks etc.
>
>--
>         -Barry Shein
>
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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Mon Jan 12 18:53:55 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (JFC Morfin)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:53:55 +0100
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist
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At 22:33 12/01/2015, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Dear Milton,
> >
> > this contribution of yours is brillant.
>
>Thanks. That was the only part of your message I understood.
>;-)

I am afraid it is also the only part of the internet you also truely 
understand :-)

Actually, I confirm you are brillant, but have you designed, 
specified, developped, negociated, built, validated, managed, sold, 
documented, operated, maintained a network and daily supported their 
users? What has been the largest international network budget you 
managed? Which part of your revenues results from your network 
business related work? Which computer language do you program?

Certainly no offence intented but I am afraid you may miss some 
reality/architectural/architectonical first hand experience. This 
does not prevent good ideas, this is not absolutely necessary when 
you suggest propositions. However, I fell this might help you when 
you want to propose solutions.

Cheers ! Thanks anyway for the good spirit and work!
jfc

   


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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Mon Jan 12 19:49:53 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (JFC Morfin)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:49:53 +0100
Subject: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and
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At 21:46 12/01/2015, Lee W McKnight wrote:
>PS: And to reply to Jefsey's critique of Milton's article....there 
>is the Internet and much more around the Internet; much of - that- 
>can reasonably be governed/managed and be legally controlled by the 
>usual suspect national legal arrangements, no doubt. But starting 
>your critique by claiming the Internet went off the rails in 1986 
>when...the usual suspect national authorities (including USG/DOD) 
>and ITU and EU and Japanese governments

Dear Lee,

I never said the internet went off the rails in 1986. I said the 
world was condemned to the internet by the US military industrial 
interests in 1986. Barry explained you what he did in life. I am 
sorry I also have to tell you why I can tell this: because the 
decision of the TCP/IP "status-quo" strategy was taken against me, my 
department, Tymnet Extended Services and in particular against my 
"Eurolab" on-going project. The same as it was taken in parallel 
against Doug Engelbart's Tymshare Augment division. (our Augment vs. 
Extend conceptual debate about the technological singularity did not 
interest McDD very much).

>were all trying to strangle the strange new...statistically 
>multiplexed beast in the cradle,

Surprising :-) In case I might have missed what this beast might be 
for the last 45 years, and since you advise Barry to google 
"statistical multiplexing", I did it. This led me to wikipedia that states:

"Examples of statistical multiplexing are:
    * The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream>MPEG 
transport stream  ...
    * The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol>UDP 
and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol>TCP 
protocols, ....
    * The <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25>X.25 and 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_relay>Frame relay ....
    * The 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode>Asynchronous 
Transfer Mode .. "
It happens that this all were some of the technologies I offered PTTs 
to implement worldwide at this time, I am not sure which one you 
suggest the internet made work better (with one exception, see below).

>in favor of a more controlled/tarriffed open systems interconnection 
>model of the future...well sorry you seem to neglkect the 3 billion 
>or so now free to chat about whatever they want now in ways they 
>could not, back in the day.

True.

The international network we deployed from 1977 to 1986+ was open, 
neutral, secure, multitechnology, spam proof. You know what? people 
could even use TCP/IP to connect the network, even on an end to end basis.

However, you are right: due to our multitechnology multiplexing 
architecture, the traffic on our lines was not NSA compatible !!!!

This is what has made the internet experimental technology to be 
politically chosen by the US industry. NSA compatibility! (NB. At 
that time it was not to spy on people, but to protect their 
no-built-in-security TCP/IP machines.

This has delayed the deregulation, we had pieoneered with the FCC, 
and the deployement because it led to a dual monotechnology 
development of the digitality instead of the IEN 48 intended 
multitechnology the NSA could nof accept and TCP/IP could not secure. 
Now (one month ago) the IAB has called for  the 30 years+ delayed 
work to be engaged to harden the TCP/IP protocol stack and provide 
security and authentication as this was built-in the first internet 
(international network) under Tymnet architecture in 1977 (US/EU)

However, more probably, the ISP offering is now going to switch to 
multitechnological support, based upon the OpenStand RFC 6852 
paradigm and the recent USIETF fork (ultimate decision IRT the TCP/IP 
technical governance by the NTIA).

Take care.
jfc







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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Mon Jan 12 20:14:56 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (JFC Morfin)
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At 00:36 13/01/2015, Barry Shein wrote:

>We might just as well use the ISO 7-layer model to talk about this,
>no?

Yes and no. OSI 7layers was by Michel Elie/Huber 
Zimmerman, i.e. people from IRIA (i.e. public research  not from an operator).

>Nonetheless I can imagine a view by AT&T et al that the internet is
>largely just another layered service to them (and others), like E911
>or various multi-drop private branch exchange systems.

Absolutely. This is why I modelize these three strata :

1. the catenet is much larger than onlt AT&T et al. It includes
     - the private bandwidth (remember that PS 
came in parallel to commercial and satellite 
bandwidth the FCC and PTTs had to simultaneously accomodate).
     - the local hardware. In the case of Tymnet 
there was a network multiservice/technology front 
end under network operating system. In X.25 or 
the Internet there are only the edges connected 
to the front-end/proxies (boxes) on the userside. 
Without considering my full VM IUI (intelligent 
use interface) or MyCANN Plug-in the catenet 
extends on hardware/software belonging to the user.

2. We agree on Operators (except that there are 
services that they offer or might offer) that are 
outside of the OSI model. I suspect that all the 
blahblah about network neutrality will fade away 
with NDN/Netflix (strangely enough no-one discussed Akamaï)

3 My personnal area (extended and semiotic 
services) actually span through OSI-6/OSI-7 and 
far beyond. Theur "ecology" is also quite 
différent (the digital neworks only cover passive 
content information communications, I am mostly 
interested in active content intellition, i.e. 
also in complex communications, meanings, 
intercomprehension). Services that I see delayed for 30 years :-)

Status-quo is NSA compatibility. Permissionless 
innovation is roughly to start back to my 1985/86 
budget plan. Things and Libre takes time. 
However, you may delay demands, not prevent needs.

jfc

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From jlfullsack at orange.fr  Tue Jan 13 07:39:27 2015
From: jlfullsack at orange.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:39:27 +0100 (CET)
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Dear Jefsey 

 

You worote :

> Actually, I confirm you are brillant, but have you designed, 
> specified, developped, negociated, built, validated, managed, sold, 
> documented, operated, maintained a network and daily supported their 
> users? What has been the largest international network budget you 
> managed? Which part of your revenues results from your network 
> business related work? Which computer language do you program?



Very appropriate and relevant questions to ask on this list ! A number of its members are mainly, if not only, "last layer expefrts", and you have quite rightly recalled the fundamentals of networking ! Our readers/members should never forget that Internet is a "TCP/IP cuckoo" in the telcos' networks nest.

 

Best regards

 

Jean-Louis Fullsack

42 years spent in telecom networks (France, Europe and Africa) at all stages described by Jefsey + "successful implementation" :-)

 

 

 

> Message du 13/01/15 01:57
> De : "JFC Morfin" 
> A : governance at lists.igcaucus.org, "Milton L Mueller" , "Governance (governance at lists.igcaucus.org)" 
> Copie à : 
> Objet : RE: [governance] Article on national sovereignty and  communications in Indian Magazine Diplomatist
> 
> At 22:33 12/01/2015, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> >Content-Language: en-US
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > Dear Milton,
> > >
> > > this contribution of yours is brillant.
> >
> >Thanks. That was the only part of your message I understood.
> >;-)
> 
> I am afraid it is also the only part of the internet you also truely 
> understand :-)
> 
> Actually, I confirm you are brillant, but have you designed, 
> specified, developped, negociated, built, validated, managed, sold, 
> documented, operated, maintained a network and daily supported their 
> users? What has been the largest international network budget you 
> managed? Which part of your revenues results from your network 
> business related work? Which computer language do you program?
> 
> Certainly no offence intented but I am afraid you may miss some 
> reality/architectural/architectonical first hand experience. This 
> does not prevent good ideas, this is not absolutely necessary when 
> you suggest propositions. However, I fell this might help you when 
> you want to propose solutions.
> 
> Cheers ! Thanks anyway for the good spirit and work!
> jfc
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From fulvio.frati at unimi.it  Wed Jan 14 05:17:13 2015
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:17:13 +0100
Subject: [governance] [Deadline Approaching: 17 Jan, 2015] 11th Intl. Conf.
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11th Intl. Conf. on Open Source Systems (OSS2015)

co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE2015)

 

Florence, Italy – 16-17 May 2015

http://www.oss2015.org

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+++++++++ Extended Paper Submission: January 17, 2015 ++++++++++

 

*** Theme: Open Frameworks: from Service to Cloud ***

 

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has had a disruptive effect on the
commercial software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals
create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. In
addition to the many standalone FOSS projects, FOSS is at the heart of
modern network-based computing infrastructures and can be found in the vast
majority of applications that run in these environments. 

 

Many organizations that have been known for developing proprietary software
are now actively involved with FOSS. FOSS adoption continues to grow among
businesses, governments, and other organizations. FOSS remains important for
educators and researchers, as well as an important aspect of e-government
and information society initiatives, providing access to high-quality
software and the code used to create it. 

 

Also, FOSS has taken the lead in a number of crucial ICT domains, like Cloud
Computing, where open source cloud stacks are widely adopted, and Big Data,
where a wealth of FOSS solutions is now being built around Hadoop.

 

The 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2015) will
celebrate a decade of advances in the use of free and open source software
by emphasizing areas and topics that will drive future use over the next
decade. This will be achieved through a combination of high-quality research
papers, tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, and invited talks.  OSS2015
will be co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software
Engineering as a way to cross-fertilize ideas. The theme for the 2015
edition will be "Open frameworks: from service to cloud", putting forward
the idea on how open source framework can develop the transition from
traditional IT services to cloud-based architectures.

 

A central goal of OSS 2015 is to provide an international forum where a
diverse community of professionals from academia, industry, the public
sector, and diverse FOSS initiatives can come together to share research
findings and practical experiences. The conference also aims to serve as a
meeting place where people can identify new research ideas and techniques
for putting FOSS into widespread use.  

 

OSS 2015 will include research papers, industry papers, formal tool
demonstrations, lightning talks, new ideas, experience reports, and posters.
OSS 2015 also invites proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to
the doctoral symposium, and submissions of panel proposals.

 

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which are
published by Springer.

 

** Topics

 

We are seeking submissions across a broad range of topics, but are
particularly interested in those areas most likely to have an impact on
computing over the next decade, including computing infrastructure, data
management, and the Internet of Things. For practical experiences, we are
seeking submissions that describe FOSS applications in embedded systems
(IoT), health care, transportation, communications, and energy management.

 

Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

- FOSS technologies

 

    - FOSS in the cloud

    - FOSS for data management and analysis

    - Security of FOSS

    - Interoperability, portability, scalability of FOSS

    - Open standards, open data, open cloud, open hardware and open exhibits

    - FOSS in cloud-based applications

    - Architecture and design of FOSS

 

- Mobile and Embedded FOSS

 

    - Mobile Operating Systems

    - Open Source apps for mobile devices

    - Open Source app markets and software delivery platforms

    - Software metrics for Open Source mobile software

    - Energy efficiency in Mobile FOSS 

 

- FOSS Quality

 

    - Static and Dynamic FOSS testing

    - Formal FOSS verification

    - Detection of bad coding practices and adoption of coding conventions

    - OSS metrics: measuring FOSS performance, safety, and quality

    - FOSS performance

 

- FOSS Evaluation, adoption and use

 

    - Evaluation of FOSS software, including comparisons with proprietary
software, in industry and government

    - Use and acceptance of FOSS; organizational policies

    - The role of FOSS-oriented foundations

    - Dissemination, redistribution and crowdsourcing of FOSS systems

    - Expanding scientific research and technology development methods
through openness

    - Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development 

 

-FOSS practices and methods

 

    - New experiences with FOSS development tools and practices

    - Knowledge and documentation management in FOSS  

 

- Economic, organizational and social issues related to FOSS

 

    - Economic analysis of FOSS

    - Maturity models of FOSS

    - FOSS in public sector

    - FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing

    - Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS 

 

- FOSS and education

                - Teaching FOSS to people of all ages and backgrounds

                - Use of FOSS in education

                

-FOSS platforms and toolkits

                - FOSS Data processing and storage platforms

                - FOSS environments for cloud computing

                - FOSS business intelligence toolkits

                - FOSS business packages (CRM, ERP, HRM)

                - FOSS collaboration and communication environments

                

** Important Dates

 

- Extended Paper Submission: January 17, 2015

- Notification to Authors: February 14, 2015

- Camera ready due: February 28, 2015

 

** Authors Instructions

 

Papers submitted to OSS 2015 must not have been published elsewhere and must
not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under
consideration for OSS 2015.

 

All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the Springer Formatting
Guidelines (LNCS)
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). You may
utilize the templates provided in our website. Submissions must be in PDF
format with a limit of 10 pages for each paper.

 

All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please
remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship or
affiliations. Authors of accepted papers will be therefore be required to
sign a copyright transfer (as well as register for and attend the
conference).

 

When your paper is finished, submit it using EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2015) according to the
submission deadlines.

 

** Organizing Committee

 

* General Chair

- Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Program Chairs

- Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

- Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

* Ph.D. Contest Chair

- Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

 

* Regional Publicity Chairs

- Moataz Ahmed, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

- Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,
USA

- Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia

- Francesco Zavatarelli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Organizing Chairs

- Fulvio Frati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

- Nadia Fusar Poli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Web Chair

- Fulvio Frati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

 

* Program Committee

- Chintan Amrit, University of Twente, The Netherlands

- Luciano Baresi, DEIB – Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy

- Francesco Di Cerbo, SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, France

- Jonas Gamalielsson, University of Skovde, Sweden

- Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

- Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden

- Abram Hindle, University of Alberta, Canada

- Netta Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland

- Stefan Koch, Bogazici University, Turkey

- Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brasil

- Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- Eda Marchetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy

- Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

- Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- John Noll, Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland

- Mauro Pezzè, University of Lugano, Switzerland

- Stephane Ribas, INRIA, France

- Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Italy

- Steve Schmid, Open Technology Foundation, Australia

- Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

- Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

- Megan Squire, Elon University, USA

- Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero – University of Limerick, Ireland

- Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

- Davide Tosi, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy

- Aaron Visaggio, University of Sannio, Italy

- Stefano Zacchiroli, Université de Paris Diderot, France

 

 

 

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From joly at punkcast.com  Wed Jan 14 09:46:59 2015
From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:46:59 -0500
Subject: [governance] REMOTE PARTICIPATION: NCUC Meeting with DC Internet
 Governance people 10am today
Message-ID: <CAM9VJk0ZSveMM1O3EFwrpg0h3OS-+_qy93NHi-43yw8pER7Vtg@mail.gmail.com>

​ISOC-NY is a member of the ​
​
NonCommercial Users Constituency, and our mebers are encouraged to involve
themselves in it's policy discussions. Here is a good opportunity.
Attending in person will be some of our DC Chapter colleagues plus Jane
Coffin from ISOC staff.

 joly posted: "Today Wednesday 14 January 2015, ancillary to the
intersessional meeting of the Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) of the
Generic Names Standing Organization (GNSO) at ICANN, the NonCommercial
Users Constituency (NCUC) will hold an outreach meeting with "


[image: NCUC] <http://ncuc.org>Today *Wednesday 14 January 2015*, ancillary
to the intersessional meeting
<https://community.icann.org/display/ncph/Intersessional+-+January+2015> of
the Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) of the Generic Names Standing
Organization (GNSO) at ICANN, the
*​​*
*NonCommercial Users Constituency* (NCUC) will hold *an outreach meeting
<http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-civil-society-outreach-event-in-washington-dc-january-14/>*
with Internet Governance interested people at the Center for Democracy and
Technnology (CDT)in Washington DC. On the agenda, the IANA transition,
accountability mechanisms in the context of globalization, human rights in
internet governance, privacy and registry services, access to knowledge and
intellectual property, freedom of expression and development, and ICANN in
broader Internet governance, including NETmundial Initiative and the
Internet Governance Forum. The meeting is by invitation only, but *remote
participation* is possible via webex or phone bridge.








*What: NCUC Civil Society Outreach Event
<http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-civil-society-outreach-event-in-washington-dc-january-14/>
Where: CDT, Washington DC When: Wednesday 14 January 2015 10am-Noon EST |
1500-1700 UTC Webex:
https://cdtmeetings.webex.com/cdtmeetings/j.php?MTID=m0abd02e67615e37bc2c948c3d722ec8d
<https://cdtmeetings.webex.com/cdtmeetings/j.php?MTID=m0abd02e67615e37bc2c948c3d722ec8d>
Phone bridge:
http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-civil-society-outreach-event-in-washington-dc-january-14/
<http://www.ncuc.org/ncuc-civil-society-outreach-event-in-washington-dc-january-14/>
Twitter: @NCUC <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%40NCUC&src=typd> *
*Agenda:*

1. Participant Introductions
2. Brief introduction of NCUC @ ICANN
3. 2-3 minute introductions of issues NCUC works on in ICANN, e.g.
• IANA and the transitioning of US authority (Matt Shears)
• Accountability mechanisms in the context of globalization (Matt Shears)
• Human rights generally (Bill Drake)
• Privacy and registry services (Stephanie Perrin)
• Access to knowledge and intellectual property (Kathy Kleiman)
• Freedom of expression (David Cake)
• Development (Rafik Dammak)
• ICANN in broader Internet governance, e.g. NETmundial Initiative, IGF
(Bill Drake)
4. Inputs from local participants on how these and related issues are being
addressed in Washington DC and beyond
5. Open integrative discussion


Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7375#respond>   See all comments
<http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7375#comments>






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From kichango at gmail.com  Sat Jan 17 16:33:05 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:33:05 +0000
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
In-Reply-To: <CAGK4d09Zg2QjOMwjpNxNT7nRTuFKS98FFpzuM-_QJbvOnANA7A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v84qBOx7AOzJe_b46ad1wA5tzVV7a9in=Mk8yOT2dZ=-w@mail.gmail.com>
 <CACTo+v_HZ3wEBsi3bUDGPfH=O_WyGBzpUa=RKMqAkUbTBPqNvA@mail.gmail.com>
 <CACTo+v8-ZiVEJzw6Mn9Xy9y-TzK-xsEdNPxbN=eKaOEccB5Ldw@mail.gmail.com>
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 <CACTo+v8PVzHx7bMvugk02Bm3nVw+JqRzvTKiNLMjkgeJpfYNyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CACTo+v9x48EJ408iuwN4etMA4ABa0iF2ABOOM1K7=wSjDZUa8w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
Just a gentle reminder that the poll will be closing tomorrow 18th January
at 23:59 UTC/GMT.
I just sent a system generated reminder for all those who are yet to cast
their vote.
Thank you to all who have already done so.
Best,

Mawaki
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From remmyn at gmail.com  Sun Jan 18 01:46:45 2015
From: remmyn at gmail.com (Remmy Nweke)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:46:45 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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Good reminder Mawaki
Keep up the good work
Remmy Nweke
@ITRealms

On Saturday, January 17, 2015, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Just a gentle reminder that the poll will be closing tomorrow 18th January
> at 23:59 UTC/GMT.
> I just sent a system generated reminder for all those who are yet to cast
> their vote.
> Thank you to all who have already done so.
> Best,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
>

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From jlfullsack at orange.fr  Sun Jan 18 13:29:59 2015
From: jlfullsack at orange.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:29:59 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
Message-ID: <1753736473.22292.1421605799156.JavaMail.www@wwinf1c18>

Hello all

 

Interesting news from South Africa in relation with "our new CS Partner" in IG : the WEF. 

visit : http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/77471/eskom-blowing-r1-million-on-davos-trip/

 

... and ENJOY !

 

How marvelous we feel, in IG CS, to be on "equal footing" with such a partner in the MSH dreamland !  

 

Best

 

Jean-Louis Fullsack

 

 

 

 

 

 

> Message du 18/01/15 07:48
> De : "Remmy Nweke" 
> A : "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" , "Mawaki Chango" 
> Copie à : 
> Objet : Re: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
> 
> Good reminder Mawaki
Keep up the good work
Remmy Nweke
@ITRealms
> 
> On Saturday, January 17, 2015, Mawaki Chango  wrote:
>


Hi,
Just a gentle reminder that the poll will be closing tomorrow 18th January at 23:59 UTC/GMT.
I just sent a system generated reminder for all those who are yet to cast their vote.
Thank you to all who have already done so.
Best,

>
Mawaki 









>












> 
> -- 
>


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> Lead Strategist/Group Executive Editor, 
> DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd 
> (publishers of) DigitalSENSE Business News;
> ITREALMS, NaijaAgroNet
> (Multiple-award winning medium)
> Published by: DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
> Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza
> Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos
> M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475,
> T: @ITRealms
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> Author: A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria
> NDS Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) 2015 - June 5 
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From pouzin at well.com  Sun Jan 18 16:28:11 2015
From: pouzin at well.com (Louis Pouzin (well))
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:28:11 +0100
Subject: [governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015
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References: <1753736473.22292.1421605799156.JavaMail.www@wwinf1c18>
Message-ID: <CA+EjHYq4cXJXE+V0--FiTcQ6FUahndpCynC0R_WynCtZit_JfA@mail.gmail.com>

It's well known that Davos is a boondoggle for WEF sponsors VIPs.
I was there once as an invited speaker.
Louis
- - -

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK <jlfullsack at orange.fr>
wrote:

> Hello all
>
> Interesting news from South Africa in relation with "our new CS Partner"
> in IG : the WEF.
>
> visit :
> http://businesstech.co.za/news/general/77471/eskom-blowing-r1-million-on-davos-trip/
>
>
>
> ... and ENJOY !
>
>
>
> How marvelous we feel, in IG CS, to be on "equal footing" with such a
> partner in the MSH dreamland !
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
>
>
>
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From salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com  Sun Jan 18 17:57:51 2015
From: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com (Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 12:57:51 -1000
Subject: [governance] Invitation: Demystifying the IANA Stewardship
 Transition- where we are now #PTC15 Honolulu, Hawaii
Message-ID: <05D08D23-6DFF-443B-B1E7-01E3EBBAB1ED@gmail.com>

Dear All,

If you are at the Pacific Telecommunication Council PTC 15 Conference in Honolulu, I would like to invite you to join the discussion this afternoon at 3:30pm to 5:00pm on demystifying the IANA transition. For more information, visit: http://www.ptc.org/ptc15/program-and-attendees/complete-program/details.html?sid=128

Brief About the Session
In March 2014, the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the Internet community.

Discussion on how this transition will take place has captured the imaginations of many in the Internet community worldwide as an assembled Coordination Group of global experts now seeks to guide the development of a transition plan.

In some quarters, the transition has been branded as "handing over control of the Internet". But in reality, what exactly is being transferred, and what does this all mean?

This session will explore the IANA stewardship transition, from the basics of the IANA function and how it fits in with ICANN, to the implications for network operators, businesses, governments and Internet users, look forward to how the process is likely to progress, and answer your questions to demystify what can appear as a complex proposition.

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From ggithaiga at hotmail.com  Mon Jan 19 12:44:18 2015
From: ggithaiga at hotmail.com (Grace Githaiga)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:44:18 +0000
Subject: [governance] Call for civil society expression of interest
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Dear Friends, [Apologies for possible duplications] We would like to bring to your attention the civil society call for expressions of interest to participate in the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015 (GCCS 2015) and a civil society pre-event, hosted by the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and taking place in The Hague on 16 and 17 April 2015. Following on from the London (2011), Budapest (2012), and Seoul (2013) Conferences, the 2015 event in The Hague will provide an opportunity for strategic level discussion of key cyberspace issues. The Conference aims to examine core issues related to the cyber domain, structured around the three main themes of Freedom, Security and Growth. Focus will be placed on exchange of knowledge and ideas on these issues and the development of concrete solutions. The Conference will encourage multi-stakeholder participation from the worlds of business, academia as well as civil society. A day and a half civil society pre-event will take place in the run-up to the Conference (14-15 April) to facilitate civil society coordination and input into the main Conference. An in-depth training on cyber security issues will be offered as part of this pre-event. In addition, an online training curriculum will be made available to the wider public. The Conference organisers are interested in a balanced and diverse participation and in supporting those who will find a practical use for the training and attendance offered. The Expression of Interest Form, in addition to logging interest in attending the Conference and the civil society pre-event, will also serve as a platform to capture requests for financial support. Limited financial support is available for a number of civil society participants. In order to be considered as a Conference/pre-event participant and/or a candidate for financial support, please fill in the Expression of Interest Form via the following link by January 30:https://www.gccs2015.com/civil-society-participation-form Expressions of interest and requests for funding received will be evaluated by an ad hoc Advisory Board set up to assist the organizers of the Conference in selecting civil society participants to receive funding and to attend the GCCS2015 and the civil society pre-event, to help ensure that the Conference is as inclusive and representative as possible. Criteria for financial support are designed to ensure a diverse spread of applicants is achieved, focussing on global south applicants and aimed at securing a balance of gender, regional diversity and level of experience in cyber security issues. Please feel free to share this information with your networks. Best wishes, On behalf of:Andrew Puddephatt, Evelien Wijkstra, Tim MaurerAdvisory Board Co-chairs-- Aditi Gupta Project Assistant | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITALDevelopment House, 56–64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LTT: +44 (0)20 7549 0337 | M: +44 (0)7876688351 | gp-digital.org
 		 	   		  
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From mariliamaciel at gmail.com  Mon Jan 19 13:27:41 2015
From: mariliamaciel at gmail.com (Marilia Maciel)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:27:41 -0200
Subject: [governance] Report on multistakeholder governance groups released
Message-ID: <CACpVkK1Ma9xtT4_4thnHp6L4MAMs56QhA0qE3Gc8RMAMTyKZ3g@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,

Sorry for any duplication of this message.

I would like to share with you a recent publication
<https://publixphere.net/i/noc/page/Internet_Governance_Research_Project_Case_Studies>
that presents case studies on multiskeholder governance groups. They cover
experiences in many different areas - from aviation and water management to
Internet governance - on the national and global levels. Authors tried to
capture the most important characteristics of these arrangements and the
lessons learned. A synthesis paper summarizes the main findings. These
diverse array of experiences may provide some interesting insights on the
future evolution of Internet governance.

The studies were developed by academic institutions that are members
of the Global
Network of Internet & Society Research Centers <http://networkofcenters.net>
(NoC) and was facilitated by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/> at Harvard University.

The Center for Technology and Society at the FGV School of Law in Rio de
Janeiro contributed with the case study on NETmundial
<https://publixphere.net/i/noc/page/IG_Case_Study_NETMundial>. We all hope
that you find the reading useful to your own projects and initiatives.


Best wishes,
Marília


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From kichango at gmail.com  Mon Jan 19 14:13:19 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:13:19 +0000
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
Message-ID: <CACTo+v--iTn=7kXdVSyAVf3rwxrvuRTdNucVujUgcW=XS_p+-w@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,

Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
way out. .

THE ELECTION PROCESS

In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and was
up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
nominations:

1) Analia Aspis
2) Arsene Tungali
3) Kawsar Uddin

After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections, we
had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due
to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of
membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email
address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses
that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The
email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their
spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.

After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
(and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
ballot next to the candidates' names.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
more diversity to its leadership.

THE ELECTION RESULTS

The results of the elections are as follows.

Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
Incomplete responses = 31
Total responses = 194

Votes received by the candidates:
1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)

(Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)

This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
success!

THANK YOU'S

Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
"coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
and for her patience I am grateful.

I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is
to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have
to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!

Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but
I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt.
I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a
better place on the IG map.

SOME PENDING BUSINESS

Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
conclusion given to this matter.

Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
subject line:
Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
Following is the summary of the main points I got from
your contributions to this discussion
 [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].

Suggestions include:

-
H
olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the
topic at Istanbul IGF

[This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
Room 9).

-
C
ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
[Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
stakeholders.]

-
N
eed for mutual respect between participants
[D
 ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter
how strong
 we feel
 about being right, contradicting positions may still be
 both
 valid under
different
 circumstances or with different assumptions than our
 own
 (and sure we all have assumptions!)
]


-
A
 minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
everybody to participate
[It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
whatever their level of familiarity
(or unfamiliarity)
with the issues,
their level of
knowledge or

self-confidence
(or lack thereof)
as regards the relevance of their contribution.
 ]

-
E
nabling and fostering trust
[M
aybe a number of basic principles
and ideas
should be spelled out here (
including for possible
charter
 revision
 ?)
as to how to achieve that and
ensure a
 baseline in expectations with regard to
our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider
the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership
position, if relevant.]

-  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views that
"civil society" holds about Internet governance.

-
IGC should engage in Social
C
apacity building
in
 I
G and
 related activism

"
People need to be educated through any extensive
[as well as extension]
program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
vulnerability
" in the face of the d
evelopment
 of the cyber-environment
.
"
People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great,
if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
 "

-
IGC should engage in (enabling)
 Customer protection
based on
 Human rights, multilingualism
, regional/
 cultural diversity
: Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower
end-users.
-
W
e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
entity

[This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
Coordination Group, CSCG]

-
 R
eform is needed to enable
such entity

with
 reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
with
 regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil
society coordination function

[In process with the CSCG]

- Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
[This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
by the CSCG]

- "
The alternative
 [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
 would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
nominations.
 "

[Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]

- "a
s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
ordination - I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool)
and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader
consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues
to enjoy strong support from all groups.
 "

- In the discussion it was also noted that "
IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
 ...
who will never agree on much
."

Now questions:
- How do we get there from here?
- Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on much")
beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points sufficient?
- How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for broader
consensus?
- Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination of
policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort of
internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
----

Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the
floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Take it away, ladies!

With my very best wishes,

Mawaki


=====================================
Mawaki Chango, PhD
Founder
& CEO

DIGILEXIS
Consulting
http://www.digilexis.com
m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
Skype: digilexis
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From isolatedn at gmail.com  Mon Jan 19 14:24:13 2015
From: isolatedn at gmail.com (Sivasubramanian M)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:54:13 +0530
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v--iTn=7kXdVSyAVf3rwxrvuRTdNucVujUgcW=XS_p+-w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CACTo+v--iTn=7kXdVSyAVf3rwxrvuRTdNucVujUgcW=XS_p+-w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHyAo0Gcpj7quz=etQ0jBomGHe=rhnLRk+9sXcmH2rTAfrMspQ@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you Mawaki for all your good work. Congratulations Analia.


Sivasubramanian M
India.

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
> as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
> way out. .
>
> THE ELECTION PROCESS
>
> In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and
> was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
> nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
> nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
> nominations:
>
> 1) Analia Aspis
> 2) Arsene Tungali
> 3) Kawsar Uddin
>
> After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections,
> we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
> voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due
> to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of
> membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email
> address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses
> that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The
> email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their
> spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.
>
> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
> (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
> obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
> After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
> the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
> using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
> be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
> ballot next to the candidates' names.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
> their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
> Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
> more diversity to its leadership.
>
> THE ELECTION RESULTS
>
> The results of the elections are as follows.
>
> Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
> Incomplete responses = 31
> Total responses = 194
>
> Votes received by the candidates:
> 1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
> 2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
> 3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
> 4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
> 5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
> 6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
>
> (Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
> page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
>
> This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
> Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
> hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
> your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
> place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
> success!
>
> THANK YOU'S
>
> Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
> "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
> our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
> more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
> on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
> and for her patience I am grateful.
>
> I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is
> to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have
> to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
> stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
> provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
> helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
> election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
>
> Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
> your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
> agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but
> I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt.
> I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a
> better place on the IG map.
>
> SOME PENDING BUSINESS
>
> Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
> had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
> Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
> Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
> 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
> conclusion given to this matter.
>
> Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
> subject line:
> Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
> Following is the summary of the main points I got from
> your contributions to this discussion
>  [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
>
> Suggestions include:
>
> -
> H
> olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the
> topic at Istanbul IGF
>
> [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
> Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
> Room 9).
>
> -
> C
> ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
> [Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
> is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
> stakeholders.]
>
> -
> N
> eed for mutual respect between participants
> [D
>  ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter
> how strong
>  we feel
>  about being right, contradicting positions may still be
>  both
>  valid under
> different
>  circumstances or with different assumptions than our
>  own
>  (and sure we all have assumptions!)
> ]
>
>
> -
> A
>  minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
> everybody to participate
> [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
> whatever their level of familiarity
> (or unfamiliarity)
> with the issues,
> their level of
> knowledge or
>
> self-confidence
> (or lack thereof)
> as regards the relevance of their contribution.
>  ]
>
> -
> E
> nabling and fostering trust
> [M
> aybe a number of basic principles
> and ideas
> should be spelled out here (
> including for possible
> charter
>  revision
>  ?)
> as to how to achieve that and
> ensure a
>  baseline in expectations with regard to
> our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider
> the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership
> position, if relevant.]
>
> -  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views
> that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.
>
> -
> IGC should engage in Social
> C
> apacity building
> in
>  I
> G and
>  related activism
>
> "
> People need to be educated through any extensive
> [as well as extension]
> program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
> vulnerability
> " in the face of the d
> evelopment
>  of the cyber-environment
> .
> "
> People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great,
> if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
>  "
>
> -
> IGC should engage in (enabling)
>  Customer protection
> based on
>  Human rights, multilingualism
> , regional/
>  cultural diversity
> : Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower
> end-users.
> -
> W
> e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
> entity
>
> [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
> Coordination Group, CSCG]
>
> -
>  R
> eform is needed to enable
> such entity
>
> with
>  reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
> with
>  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil
> society coordination function
>
> [In process with the CSCG]
>
> - Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
> exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
> [This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
> by the CSCG]
>
> - "
> The alternative
>  [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
>  would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
> respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
> this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
> forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
> substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
> their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
> nominations.
>  "
>
> [Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
> policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
> remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
>
> - "a
> s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
> ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
> potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
> here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
> statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool)
> and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader
> consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues
> to enjoy strong support from all groups.
>  "
>
> - In the discussion it was also noted that "
> IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
>  ...
> who will never agree on much
> ."
>
> Now questions:
> - How do we get there from here?
> - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on
> much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points
> sufficient?
> - How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for
> broader consensus?
> - Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination
> of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort
> of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
> compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
> those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
> ----
>
> Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the
> floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
> hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
> Take it away, ladies!
>
> With my very best wishes,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> & CEO
>
> DIGILEXIS
> Consulting
> http://www.digilexis.com
> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
> Skype: digilexis
> =====================================
>
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From myaguero at msn.com  Mon Jan 19 14:42:24 2015
From: myaguero at msn.com (Maritza Y. Aguero Minano)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:42:24 -0600
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
In-Reply-To:  <CACTo+v--iTn=7kXdVSyAVf3rwxrvuRTdNucVujUgcW=XS_p+-w@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CACTo+v--iTn=7kXdVSyAVf3rwxrvuRTdNucVujUgcW=XS_p+-w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY174-W418653EEF38A917EABC757DA4A0@phx.gbl>

Thank you very much Mawaki for your great support and work.
Congratulations Analia! So proud of you!
Regards,

From: kichango at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:13:19 +0000
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election - Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator

Dear All,
Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my way out. .
THE ELECTION PROCESS
In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed nominations:
1) Analia Aspis2) Arsene Tungali3) Kawsar Uddin
After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections, we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox. 
After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing. After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the ballot next to the candidates' names.   
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community. Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring more diversity to its leadership. 
THE ELECTION RESULTS
The results of the elections are as follows.
Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163Incomplete responses = 31Total responses = 194
Votes received by the candidates:1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
(Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations, Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every success!
THANK YOU'S
Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that and for her patience I am grateful.
I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I, stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt. I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a better place on the IG map.
SOME PENDING BUSINESS
Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with. Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some conclusion given to this matter.
Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following subject line:Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
Following is the summary of the main points I got from your contributions to this discussion [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
Suggestions include:
- Holding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the topic at Istanbul IGF  [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level / Room 9). 
- Contemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC[Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all stakeholders.]
-  Need for mutual respect between participants[D ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter how strong we feel about being right, contradicting positions may still be both valid underdifferent circumstances or with different assumptions than our own (and sure we all have assumptions!)]  
- A minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for everybody to participate [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate whatever their level of familiarity(or unfamiliarity) with the issues, their level of knowledge or self-confidence (or lack thereof) as regards the relevance of their contribution. ]
- Enabling and fostering trust [Maybe a number of basic principles and ideas should be spelled out here (including for possible charter revision ?) as to how to achieve that and ensure a baseline in expectations with regard to our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership position, if relevant.]
-  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.

- IGC should engage in Social Capacity building in IG and related activism  "People need to be educated through any extensive [as well as extension] program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their vulnerability" in the face of the development of the cyber-environment. "People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great, if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area. "
- IGC should engage in (enabling)  Customer protection based on Human rights, multilingualism, regional/ cultural diversity: Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower end-users.- We absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination entity  [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society Coordination Group, CSCG]
-  Reform is needed to enable such entity with reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making with  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil society coordination function  [In process with the CSCG]
- Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.[This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed by the CSCG]
- "The alternative [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments] would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own nominations. "
[Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
- "as regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool) and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues to enjoy strong support from all groups. "
- In the discussion it was also noted that "IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions ... who will never agree on much." 
Now questions:- How do we get there from here? - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points sufficient?- How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for broader consensus?- Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?----
Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean. Take it away, ladies!
With my very best wishes,
Mawaki    
=====================================Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
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From salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com  Mon Jan 19 14:49:06 2015
From: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com (Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:49:06 +1200
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Dear All,

Firstly, thank you to all the candidates that stood and congratulations
Analis. Thank you Mawaki for your one year stint as co-coordinator and we
appreciate the behind the scenes work that goes into these things.

I would suggest that the co-cos pick up on points that Wolfgang raised as
it would be worthwhile communicating IGC input into key and critical areas.

With every best wish,
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From lmcknigh at syr.edu  Mon Jan 19 15:04:09 2015
From: lmcknigh at syr.edu (Lee W McKnight)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:04:09 +0000
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
In-Reply-To: <CAJwbTiCjPw6PajUOiRzkQFFHwiFe9RfrBDPEqa1i5p8yU2qu_A@mail.gmail.com>
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Welcome Analia.  And thanks Mawaki for your time and leadership - excuse me co-co-ship. No doubt the most fun you have had...since doctoral studies? : )


Arsene and Kawsar, thanks for standing and please do stay engaged in whichever way suits you, there is always more than enough to do in all-volunteer organizations.


Analia, in typical IGC fashion, better get to work quick on that ever-longer IGC to-do list, or...well enough said, 2015 is interesting times for Internet Governance.


Lee



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Subject: Re: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election - Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator

Dear All,

Firstly, thank you to all the candidates that stood and congratulations Analis. Thank you Mawaki for your one year stint as co-coordinator and we appreciate the behind the scenes work that goes into these things.

I would suggest that the co-cos pick up on points that Wolfgang raised as it would be worthwhile communicating IGC input into key and critical areas.

With every best wish,
Sala
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From ian.peter at ianpeter.com  Mon Jan 19 17:11:17 2015
From: ian.peter at ianpeter.com (Ian Peter)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:11:17 +1100
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
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Yes, huge thanks to Mawaki for his term of office and for applying his considerable wisdom to IGC at a very difficult time. I am convinced that IGC is in a better state because of these efforts, and his work with Deirdre has achieved a lot over the last 12 months in stabilising IGC.

And congratulations to Analia!

Ian Peter

From: Lee W McKnight 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 7:04 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; Mawaki Chango ; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro 
Subject: RE: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election - Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator

Welcome Analia.  And thanks Mawaki for your time and leadership - excuse me co-co-ship. No doubt the most fun you have had...since doctoral studies? : )




Arsene and Kawsar, thanks for standing and please do stay engaged in whichever way suits you, there is always more than enough to do in all-volunteer organizations. 




Analia, in typical IGC fashion, better get to work quick on that ever-longer IGC to-do list, or...well enough said, 2015 is interesting times for Internet Governance. 



Lee







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Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 2:49 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Mawaki Chango
Subject: Re: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election - Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator 

Dear All,


Firstly, thank you to all the candidates that stood and congratulations Analis. Thank you Mawaki for your one year stint as co-coordinator and we appreciate the behind the scenes work that goes into these things.


I would suggest that the co-cos pick up on points that Wolfgang raised as it would be worthwhile communicating IGC input into key and critical areas.


With every best wish,
Sala



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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Mon Jan 19 20:58:07 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:58:07 -0400
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Thank you Mawaki for doing such an excellent job with the election, and for
being such a comfortable "co".
I will have to owe you a longer reply until tomorrow.
Thank you to the candidates who offered themselves for the election, and
congratulations Analia - I look forward to working with you.
And thanks Jeremy for the technical help behind the scenes.
Best wishes to everyone for a peaceful and productive 2015
Deirdre

On 19 January 2015 at 15:13, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
> as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
> way out. .
>
> THE ELECTION PROCESS
>
> In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and
> was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
> nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
> nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
> nominations:
>
> 1) Analia Aspis
> 2) Arsene Tungali
> 3) Kawsar Uddin
>
> After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections,
> we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
> voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due
> to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of
> membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email
> address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses
> that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The
> email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their
> spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.
>
> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
> (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
> obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
> After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
> the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
> using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
> be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
> ballot next to the candidates' names.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
> their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
> Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
> more diversity to its leadership.
>
> THE ELECTION RESULTS
>
> The results of the elections are as follows.
>
> Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
> Incomplete responses = 31
> Total responses = 194
>
> Votes received by the candidates:
> 1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
> 2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
> 3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
> 4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
> 5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
> 6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
>
> (Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
> page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
>
> This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
> Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
> hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
> your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
> place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
> success!
>
> THANK YOU'S
>
> Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
> "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
> our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
> more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
> on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
> and for her patience I am grateful.
>
> I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is
> to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have
> to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
> stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
> provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
> helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
> election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
>
> Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
> your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
> agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but
> I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt.
> I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a
> better place on the IG map.
>
> SOME PENDING BUSINESS
>
> Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
> had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
> Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
> Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
> 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
> conclusion given to this matter.
>
> Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
> subject line:
> Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
> Following is the summary of the main points I got from
> your contributions to this discussion
>  [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
>
> Suggestions include:
>
> -
> H
> olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the
> topic at Istanbul IGF
>
> [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
> Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
> Room 9).
>
> -
> C
> ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
> [Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
> is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
> stakeholders.]
>
> -
> N
> eed for mutual respect between participants
> [D
>  ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter
> how strong
>  we feel
>  about being right, contradicting positions may still be
>  both
>  valid under
> different
>  circumstances or with different assumptions than our
>  own
>  (and sure we all have assumptions!)
> ]
>
>
> -
> A
>  minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
> everybody to participate
> [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
> whatever their level of familiarity
> (or unfamiliarity)
> with the issues,
> their level of
> knowledge or
>
> self-confidence
> (or lack thereof)
> as regards the relevance of their contribution.
>  ]
>
> -
> E
> nabling and fostering trust
> [M
> aybe a number of basic principles
> and ideas
> should be spelled out here (
> including for possible
> charter
>  revision
>  ?)
> as to how to achieve that and
> ensure a
>  baseline in expectations with regard to
> our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider
> the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership
> position, if relevant.]
>
> -  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views
> that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.
>
> -
> IGC should engage in Social
> C
> apacity building
> in
>  I
> G and
>  related activism
>
> "
> People need to be educated through any extensive
> [as well as extension]
> program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
> vulnerability
> " in the face of the d
> evelopment
>  of the cyber-environment
> .
> "
> People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great,
> if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
>  "
>
> -
> IGC should engage in (enabling)
>  Customer protection
> based on
>  Human rights, multilingualism
> , regional/
>  cultural diversity
> : Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower
> end-users.
> -
> W
> e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
> entity
>
> [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
> Coordination Group, CSCG]
>
> -
>  R
> eform is needed to enable
> such entity
>
> with
>  reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
> with
>  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil
> society coordination function
>
> [In process with the CSCG]
>
> - Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
> exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
> [This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
> by the CSCG]
>
> - "
> The alternative
>  [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
>  would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
> respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
> this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
> forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
> substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
> their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
> nominations.
>  "
>
> [Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
> policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
> remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
>
> - "a
> s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
> ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
> potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
> here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
> statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool)
> and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader
> consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues
> to enjoy strong support from all groups.
>  "
>
> - In the discussion it was also noted that "
> IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
>  ...
> who will never agree on much
> ."
>
> Now questions:
> - How do we get there from here?
> - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on
> much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points
> sufficient?
> - How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for
> broader consensus?
> - Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination
> of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort
> of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
> compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
> those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
> ----
>
> Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the
> floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
> hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
> Take it away, ladies!
>
> With my very best wishes,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> & CEO
>
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From kawsaru at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 20 05:17:40 2015
From: kawsaru at yahoo.com (kawsar Uddin)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:17:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Thank you Mawaki for excellent job with the election and congratulations Analia.
Thanks,Md. Kawsar UddinDhaka, Bangladesh


     On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 7:59 AM, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 Thank you Mawaki for doing such an excellent job with the election, and for being such a comfortable "co".I will have to owe you a longer reply until tomorrow.Thank you to the candidates who offered themselves for the election, and congratulations Analia - I look forward to working with you.And thanks Jeremy for the technical help behind the scenes.Best wishes to everyone for a peaceful and productive 2015Deirdre
On 19 January 2015 at 15:13, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,
Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my way out. .
THE ELECTION PROCESS
In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed nominations:
1) Analia Aspis2) Arsene Tungali3) Kawsar Uddin
After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections, we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox. 
After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing. After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the ballot next to the candidates' names.   
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community. Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring more diversity to its leadership. 
THE ELECTION RESULTS
The results of the elections are as follows.
Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163Incomplete responses = 31Total responses = 194
Votes received by the candidates:1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
(Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations, Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every success!
THANK YOU'S
Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that and for her patience I am grateful.
I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I, stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt. I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a better place on the IG map.
SOME PENDING BUSINESS
Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with. Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some conclusion given to this matter.
Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following subject line:Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
Following is the summary of the main points I got from your contributions to this discussion [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
Suggestions include:
- Holding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the topic at Istanbul IGF  [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level / Room 9). 
- Contemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC[Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all stakeholders.]
-  Need for mutual respect between participants[D ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter how strong we feel about being right, contradicting positions may still be both valid underdifferent circumstances or with different assumptions than our own (and sure we all have assumptions!)]  
- A minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for everybody to participate [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate whatever their level of familiarity(or unfamiliarity) with the issues, their level of knowledge or self-confidence (or lack thereof) as regards the relevance of their contribution. ]
- Enabling and fostering trust [Maybe a number of basic principles and ideas should be spelled out here (including for possible charter revision ?) as to how to achieve that and ensure a baseline in expectations with regard to our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership position, if relevant.]
-  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.

- IGC should engage in Social Capacity building in IG and related activism  "People need to be educated through any extensive [as well as extension] program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their vulnerability" in the face of the development of the cyber-environment. "People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great, if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area. "
- IGC should engage in (enabling)  Customer protection based on Human rights, multilingualism, regional/ cultural diversity: Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower end-users.- We absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination entity  [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society Coordination Group, CSCG]
-  Reform is needed to enable such entity with reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making with  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil society coordination function  [In process with the CSCG]
- Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.[This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed by the CSCG]
- "The alternative [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments] would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own nominations. "
[Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
- "as regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool) and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues to enjoy strong support from all groups. "
- In the discussion it was also noted that "IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions ... who will never agree on much." 
Now questions:- How do we get there from here? - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points sufficient?- How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for broader consensus?- Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?----
Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean. Take it away, ladies!
With my very best wishes,
Mawaki    
=====================================Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
Founder & CEO
DIGILEXIS Consultinghttp://www.digilexis.com
m.chango at digilexis.com | kichango at gmail.com 
Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexisMob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64Skype: digilexis=====================================
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From Kivuva at transworldafrica.com  Tue Jan 20 05:45:20 2015
From: Kivuva at transworldafrica.com (Mwendwa Kivuva)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:45:20 +0300
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
In-Reply-To: <CACTo+v--iTn=7kXdVSyAVf3rwxrvuRTdNucVujUgcW=XS_p+-w@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you Mawaki for all your good work. You have raised important points
that members should deliberate on. Congratulations Analia. Thanks Arsene
and Uddin for offering yourselves to serve.

On 19 January 2015 at 22:13, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
> (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
> obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
> After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
> the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
> using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
> be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
> ballot next to the candidates' names.


4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)


It seems the "None of the nominees" vote is not very popular with ICG
members anyway.

Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163


Can the results be termed as voter apathy? 163 votes is about 33% turnout
and we should aim for at least 50%. Are there any lessons learned on why
there were many spoiled/uncompleted ballots?

Regards

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From ias_pk at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 20 05:46:30 2015
From: ias_pk at yahoo.com (Imran Ahmed Shah)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:46:30 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Congratulation to Analia Aspis, and thanks for Arsene and Kawsar making the elections more competitive for us.  
Thanks to Mawaki and Deirdre for their support and activities as co-co.
Thanking you and Best Regards
Imran Ahmed Shah
 
      From: Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
 To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 0:13
 Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election - Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
   
Dear All,
Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my way out. .
THE ELECTION PROCESS
In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed nominations:
1) Analia Aspis2) Arsene Tungali3) Kawsar Uddin
After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections, we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox. 
After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing. After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the ballot next to the candidates' names.   
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community. Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring more diversity to its leadership. 
THE ELECTION RESULTS
The results of the elections are as follows.
Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163Incomplete responses = 31Total responses = 194
Votes received by the candidates:1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
(Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations, Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every success!
THANK YOU'S
Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that and for her patience I am grateful.
I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I, stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt. I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a better place on the IG map.
SOME PENDING BUSINESS
Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with. Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some conclusion given to this matter.
Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following subject line:Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
Following is the summary of the main points I got from your contributions to this discussion [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
Suggestions include:
- Holding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the topic at Istanbul IGF  [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level / Room 9). 
- Contemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC[Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all stakeholders.]
-  Need for mutual respect between participants[D ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter how strong we feel about being right, contradicting positions may still be both valid underdifferent circumstances or with different assumptions than our own (and sure we all have assumptions!)]  
- A minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for everybody to participate [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate whatever their level of familiarity(or unfamiliarity) with the issues, their level of knowledge or self-confidence (or lack thereof) as regards the relevance of their contribution. ]
- Enabling and fostering trust [Maybe a number of basic principles and ideas should be spelled out here (including for possible charter revision ?) as to how to achieve that and ensure a baseline in expectations with regard to our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership position, if relevant.]
-  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.

- IGC should engage in Social Capacity building in IG and related activism  "People need to be educated through any extensive [as well as extension] program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their vulnerability" in the face of the development of the cyber-environment. "People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great, if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area. "
- IGC should engage in (enabling)  Customer protection based on Human rights, multilingualism, regional/ cultural diversity: Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower end-users.- We absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination entity  [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society Coordination Group, CSCG]
-  Reform is needed to enable such entity with reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making with  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil society coordination function  [In process with the CSCG]
- Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.[This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed by the CSCG]
- "The alternative [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments] would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own nominations. "
[Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
- "as regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool) and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues to enjoy strong support from all groups. "
- In the discussion it was also noted that "IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions ... who will never agree on much." 
Now questions:- How do we get there from here? - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points sufficient?- How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for broader consensus?- Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?----
Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean. Take it away, ladies!
With my very best wishes,
Mawaki    
=====================================Mawaki Chango, PhD                  
Founder & CEO
DIGILEXIS Consultinghttp://www.digilexis.com
m.chango at digilexis.com | kichango at gmail.com 
Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexisMob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64Skype: digilexis=====================================
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From nkurunziza1999 at yahoo.fr  Tue Jan 20 09:39:25 2015
From: nkurunziza1999 at yahoo.fr (Jean Paul NKURUNZIZA)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:39:25 +0000
Subject: [governance] Call for civil society expression of interest
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Dear Grace, 

Thank you very much for sharing that information.

Best regards

NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul
TRAINER IN COMPUTING AND INTERNET POLICY

ISOC BURUNDI : VICE PRESIDENT
Réseau des Télécentres Communautaires du Burundi : Président


Burundi Youth Training Centre : Secrétaire Général


Skype : jpnkurunziz

Facebook :  http://www.facebook.com/jeanpaul.nkurunziza
Tel : +257 79 981459

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En date de : Lun 19.1.15, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> a écrit :

 Objet: [governance] Call for civil society expression of interest
 À: "AfrICANN list" <africann at afrinic.net>, "kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>, "info at isoc.or.ke" <info at isoc.or.ke>, "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
 Date: Lundi 19 janvier 2015, 19h44
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dear Friends, [Apologies for possible
 duplications] We would like to bring to your
 attention the civil society call for expressions of interest
 to participate in the Global Conference on Cyberspace
 2015 (GCCS 2015) and a civil
 society pre-event, hosted by the government of the Kingdom
 of the Netherlands, and taking place in The Hague on 16 and
 17 April 2015. Following on from the London
 (2011), Budapest (2012), and Seoul (2013) Conferences, the
 2015 event in The Hague will provide an opportunity for
 strategic level discussion of key cyberspace issues. The
 Conference aims to examine core
 issues related to the cyber domain,
 structured around the three main themes of Freedom, Security and Growth. Focus will be placed on exchange
 of knowledge and ideas on these issues and the development
 of concrete solutions. The Conference will encourage
 multi-stakeholder participation from the worlds of business,
 academia as well as civil society. A day and a half civil society
 pre-event will take place in the run-up to the Conference
 (14-15 April) to facilitate civil society coordination and
 input into the main Conference. An in-depth training on
 cyber security issues will be offered as part of this
 pre-event. In addition, an online training curriculum will
 be made available to the wider public. The Conference
 organisers are interested in a balanced and diverse
 participation and in supporting those who will find a
 practical use for the training and attendance
 offered. The Expression of Interest Form, in
 addition to logging interest in attending the Conference and
 the civil society pre-event, will also serve as a platform
 to capture requests for financial support. Limited financial
 support is available for a number of civil society
 participants. In order to be considered as a
 Conference/pre-event participant and/or a candidate for
 financial support, please fill in the Expression of Interest
 Form via the following link by January
 30:https://www.gccs2015.com/civil-society-participation-form Expressions of interest and
 requests for funding received will be evaluated by an ad
 hoc Advisory Board set up to assist the
 organizers of the Conference in selecting civil society
 participants to receive funding and to attend the GCCS2015
 and the civil society pre-event, to help ensure that the
 Conference is as inclusive and representative as
 possible. Criteria for financial support are
 designed to ensure a diverse spread of applicants is
 achieved, focussing on global south applicants and aimed at
 securing a balance of gender, regional diversity and level
 of experience in cyber security issues. Please feel free to share this
 information with your networks. Best wishes, On behalf of:Andrew Puddephatt, Evelien
 Wijkstra, Tim MaurerAdvisory Board
 Co-chairs
 
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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Tue Jan 20 09:43:50 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:43:50 -0400
Subject: [governance] Telecommunications Policy and Regulation
Message-ID: <CAMz5XN6g7uZWFtWyZqjOTB0uQt7i1dP3CixetGuh-sO6tnVY7A@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues,
The Organisation of East Caribbean States (OECS) "is now a nine member
grouping comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada,
Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands are associate members of the OECS.
...[In 2010 a Treaty was signed which] establishes the OECS economic union,
making possible the creation of a single financial and economic space
within which goods, people and capital move freely, monetary and fiscal
policies are harmonized and countries continue to adopt a common approach
to trade, health, education and environment, as well as to the development
of such critical sectors as agriculture, tourism and energy. - See more at:
http://www.oecs.org/about-the-oecs/who-we-are/about-oecs#sthash.JTuqCraw.dpuf

Recently the OECS has published a draft paper
<http://www.oecs.org/publications/projects/oecs-telecommunications-reform/658-advancing-telecommunications-in-the-oecs-perspectives-and-recommendations-2015/file>
recommending
policy and regulations for the telecommunications sector in this region.
This paper is forwarded to you for your information and comment.

Deirdre
-- 
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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Tue Jan 20 10:20:34 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:20:34 -0400
Subject: [governance] A different frame
Message-ID: <CAMz5XN5Atg4LSuqrPzwRUB+uKLYoo-R-iKs-UMtJjMTgaXjEWA@mail.gmail.com>

As we consider the questions and comments that Mawaki has just sent to the
list it might be useful to read this blogpost
<https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-different-way-of-looking-at-things/>
from
John Carr.
(John Carr is a leader in the call for the protection of children online)
Deirdre

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From analia.aspis at gmail.com  Tue Jan 20 12:23:51 2015
From: analia.aspis at gmail.com (Analia Aspis)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:23:51 -0300
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Dear all,

Thanks a lot for your kind messages :) I am very excited to work with you
and contribute with IGC mission. Thanks again Mawaki for your your help and
patience.

Best,
Analía


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
> as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
> way out. .
>
> THE ELECTION PROCESS
>
> In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and
> was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
> nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
> nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
> nominations:
>
> 1) Analia Aspis
> 2) Arsene Tungali
> 3) Kawsar Uddin
>
> After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections,
> we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
> voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due
> to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of
> membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email
> address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses
> that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The
> email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their
> spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.
>
> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
> (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
> obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
> After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
> the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
> using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
> be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
> ballot next to the candidates' names.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
> their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
> Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
> more diversity to its leadership.
>
> THE ELECTION RESULTS
>
> The results of the elections are as follows.
>
> Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
> Incomplete responses = 31
> Total responses = 194
>
> Votes received by the candidates:
> 1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
> 2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
> 3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
> 4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
> 5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
> 6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
>
> (Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
> page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
>
> This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
> Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
> hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
> your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
> place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
> success!
>
> THANK YOU'S
>
> Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
> "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
> our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
> more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
> on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
> and for her patience I am grateful.
>
> I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is
> to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have
> to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
> stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
> provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
> helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
> election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
>
> Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
> your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
> agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but
> I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt.
> I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a
> better place on the IG map.
>
> SOME PENDING BUSINESS
>
> Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
> had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
> Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
> Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
> 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
> conclusion given to this matter.
>
> Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
> subject line:
> Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
> Following is the summary of the main points I got from
> your contributions to this discussion
>  [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
>
> Suggestions include:
>
> -
> H
> olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the
> topic at Istanbul IGF
>
> [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
> Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
> Room 9).
>
> -
> C
> ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
> [Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
> is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
> stakeholders.]
>
> -
> N
> eed for mutual respect between participants
> [D
>  ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter
> how strong
>  we feel
>  about being right, contradicting positions may still be
>  both
>  valid under
> different
>  circumstances or with different assumptions than our
>  own
>  (and sure we all have assumptions!)
> ]
>
>
> -
> A
>  minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
> everybody to participate
> [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
> whatever their level of familiarity
> (or unfamiliarity)
> with the issues,
> their level of
> knowledge or
>
> self-confidence
> (or lack thereof)
> as regards the relevance of their contribution.
>  ]
>
> -
> E
> nabling and fostering trust
> [M
> aybe a number of basic principles
> and ideas
> should be spelled out here (
> including for possible
> charter
>  revision
>  ?)
> as to how to achieve that and
> ensure a
>  baseline in expectations with regard to
> our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider
> the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership
> position, if relevant.]
>
> -  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views
> that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.
>
> -
> IGC should engage in Social
> C
> apacity building
> in
>  I
> G and
>  related activism
>
> "
> People need to be educated through any extensive
> [as well as extension]
> program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
> vulnerability
> " in the face of the d
> evelopment
>  of the cyber-environment
> .
> "
> People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great,
> if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
>  "
>
> -
> IGC should engage in (enabling)
>  Customer protection
> based on
>  Human rights, multilingualism
> , regional/
>  cultural diversity
> : Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower
> end-users.
> -
> W
> e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
> entity
>
> [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
> Coordination Group, CSCG]
>
> -
>  R
> eform is needed to enable
> such entity
>
> with
>  reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
> with
>  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil
> society coordination function
>
> [In process with the CSCG]
>
> - Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
> exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
> [This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
> by the CSCG]
>
> - "
> The alternative
>  [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
>  would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
> respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
> this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
> forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
> substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
> their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
> nominations.
>  "
>
> [Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
> policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
> remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
>
> - "a
> s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
> ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
> potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
> here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
> statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool)
> and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader
> consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues
> to enjoy strong support from all groups.
>  "
>
> - In the discussion it was also noted that "
> IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
>  ...
> who will never agree on much
> ."
>
> Now questions:
> - How do we get there from here?
> - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on
> much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points
> sufficient?
> - How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for
> broader consensus?
> - Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination
> of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort
> of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
> compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
> those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
> ----
>
> Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the
> floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
> hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
> Take it away, ladies!
>
> With my very best wishes,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> =====================================
> Mawaki Chango, PhD
> Founder
> & CEO
>
> DIGILEXIS
> Consulting
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From jaryn56 at gmail.com  Tue Jan 20 12:55:44 2015
From: jaryn56 at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?Sm9zw6kgRsOpbGl4IEFyaWFzIFluY2hl?=)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:55:44 -0500
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Saludos Analia Aspis...


Cordialmente:         José Félix Arias Ynche
                        Investigador Social Para El Desarrollo


2015-01-20 12:23 GMT-05:00 Analia Aspis <analia.aspis at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> Thanks a lot for your kind messages :) I am very excited to work with you
> and contribute with IGC mission. Thanks again Mawaki for your your help and
> patience.
>
> Best,
> Analía
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
>> as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
>> way out. .
>>
>> THE ELECTION PROCESS
>>
>> In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and
>> was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
>> nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
>> nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
>> nominations:
>>
>> 1) Analia Aspis
>> 2) Arsene Tungali
>> 3) Kawsar Uddin
>>
>> After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections,
>> we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
>> voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due to
>> the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of membership
>> time span from the last time members' information (eg, email address) has
>> been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses that were
>> reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The email
>> ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their spam
>> folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.
>>
>> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
>> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote (and
>> be on the record for participating in the election) without the obligation
>> to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing. After
>> checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in the
>> last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were using a
>> template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to be
>> elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
>> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
>> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
>> ballot next to the candidates' names.
>>
>> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
>> their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
>> Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
>> more diversity to its leadership.
>>
>> THE ELECTION RESULTS
>>
>> The results of the elections are as follows.
>>
>> Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
>> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
>> Incomplete responses = 31
>> Total responses = 194
>>
>> Votes received by the candidates:
>> 1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
>> 2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
>> 3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
>> 4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
>> 5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
>> 6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
>>
>> (Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
>> page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
>>
>> This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
>> Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
>> hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
>> your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
>> place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
>> success!
>>
>> THANK YOU'S
>>
>> Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
>> "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
>> our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
>> more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
>> on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
>> and for her patience I am grateful.
>>
>> I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is
>> to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have
>> to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
>> stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
>> provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
>> helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
>> election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
>>
>> Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
>> your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
>> agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but I
>> felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt. I
>> appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a better
>> place on the IG map.
>>
>> SOME PENDING BUSINESS
>>
>> Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
>> had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
>> Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
>> Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
>> 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
>> conclusion given to this matter.
>>
>> Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
>> subject line:
>> Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
>> Following is the summary of the main points I got from
>> your contributions to this discussion
>>  [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
>>
>> Suggestions include:
>>
>> -
>> H
>> olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the
>> topic at Istanbul IGF
>>
>> [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
>> Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
>> Room 9).
>>
>> -
>> C
>> ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
>> [Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
>> is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
>> stakeholders.]
>>
>> -
>> N
>> eed for mutual respect between participants
>> [D
>>  ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter
>> how strong
>>  we feel
>>  about being right, contradicting positions may still be
>>  both
>>  valid under
>> different
>>  circumstances or with different assumptions than our
>>  own
>>  (and sure we all have assumptions!)
>> ]
>>
>>
>> -
>> A
>>  minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
>> everybody to participate
>> [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
>> whatever their level of familiarity
>> (or unfamiliarity)
>> with the issues,
>> their level of
>> knowledge or
>>
>> self-confidence
>> (or lack thereof)
>> as regards the relevance of their contribution.
>>  ]
>>
>> -
>> E
>> nabling and fostering trust
>> [M
>> aybe a number of basic principles
>> and ideas
>> should be spelled out here (
>> including for possible
>> charter
>>  revision
>>  ?)
>> as to how to achieve that and
>> ensure a
>>  baseline in expectations with regard to
>> our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider
>> the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership
>> position, if relevant.]
>>
>> -  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views
>> that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.
>>
>> -
>> IGC should engage in Social
>> C
>> apacity building
>> in
>>  I
>> G and
>>  related activism
>>
>> "
>> People need to be educated through any extensive
>> [as well as extension]
>> program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
>> vulnerability
>> " in the face of the d
>> evelopment
>>  of the cyber-environment
>> .
>> "
>> People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
>> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great, if
>> IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
>>  "
>>
>> -
>> IGC should engage in (enabling)
>>  Customer protection
>> based on
>>  Human rights, multilingualism
>> , regional/
>>  cultural diversity
>> : Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower
>> end-users.
>> -
>> W
>> e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
>> entity
>>
>> [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
>> Coordination Group, CSCG]
>>
>> -
>>  R
>> eform is needed to enable
>> such entity
>>
>> with
>>  reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
>> with
>>  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a
>> civil society coordination function
>>
>> [In process with the CSCG]
>>
>> - Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
>> exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
>> [This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
>> by the CSCG]
>>
>> - "
>> The alternative
>>  [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
>>  would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
>> respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
>> this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
>> forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
>> substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
>> their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
>> nominations.
>>  "
>>
>> [Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
>> policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
>> remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
>>
>> - "a
>> s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
>> ordination – I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
>> potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
>> here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
>> statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool) and
>> later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader consensus,
>> I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues to enjoy
>> strong support from all groups.
>>  "
>>
>> - In the discussion it was also noted that "
>> IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
>>  ...
>> who will never agree on much
>> ."
>>
>> Now questions:
>> - How do we get there from here?
>> - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on
>> much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points
>> sufficient?
>> - How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for
>> broader consensus?
>> - Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination
>> of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort
>> of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
>> compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
>> those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
>> ----
>>
>> Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the
>> floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
>> hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
>> Take it away, ladies!
>>
>> With my very best wishes,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> =====================================
>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>> Founder
>> & CEO
>>
>> DIGILEXIS
>> Consulting
>> http://www.digilexis.com
>> m.chango at digilexis.com | kichango at gmail.com
>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>> Skype: digilexis
>> =====================================
>>
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From toml at communisphere.com  Tue Jan 20 13:21:18 2015
From: toml at communisphere.com (Thomas Lowenhaupt)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:21:18 -0500
Subject: [governance] A different frame
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A most interesting post indeed.

Tom Lowenhaupt

On 1/20/2015 10:20 AM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
> As we consider the questions and comments that Mawaki has just sent to 
> the list it might be useful to read this blogpost 
> <https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-different-way-of-looking-at-things/%20> from 
> John Carr.
> (John Carr is a leader in the call for the protection of children online)
> Deirdre
>
> -- 
> “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir 
> William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979

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From soekpe at gmail.com  Tue Jan 20 18:13:11 2015
From: soekpe at gmail.com (Sonigitu Ekpe)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:13:11 +0100
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Congratulations as you take IGC to a newer level in collaborations of the
Co-coordinator, D. Williams and the Elders of IGC.

Best wishes.

Sonigitu Ekpe Aji :-@ SEA

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+234 8027510179
On Jan 20, 2015 6:24 PM, "Analia Aspis" <analia.aspis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks a lot for your kind messages :) I am very excited to work with you
> and contribute with IGC mission. Thanks again Mawaki for your your help and
> patience.
>
> Best,
> Analía
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
>> as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
>> way out. .
>>
>> THE ELECTION PROCESS
>>
>> In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and
>> was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
>> nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
>> nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
>> nominations:
>>
>> 1) Analia Aspis
>> 2) Arsene Tungali
>> 3) Kawsar Uddin
>>
>> After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections,
>> we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
>> voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due
>> to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of
>> membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email
>> address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses
>> that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The
>> email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their
>> spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.
>>
>> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
>> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
>> (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
>> obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
>> After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
>> the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
>> using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
>> be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
>> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
>> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
>> ballot next to the candidates' names.
>>
>> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
>> their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
>> Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
>> more diversity to its leadership.
>>
>> THE ELECTION RESULTS
>>
>> The results of the elections are as follows.
>>
>> Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
>> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
>> Incomplete responses = 31
>> Total responses = 194
>>
>> Votes received by the candidates:
>> 1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
>> 2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
>> 3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
>> 4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
>> 5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
>> 6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
>>
>> (Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
>> page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
>>
>> This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
>> Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
>> hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
>> your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
>> place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
>> success!
>>
>> THANK YOU'S
>>
>> Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
>> "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
>> our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
>> more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
>> on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
>> and for her patience I am grateful.
>>
>> I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often
>> is to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to
>> have to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
>> stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
>> provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
>> helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
>> election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
>>
>> Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
>> your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
>> agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but
>> I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt.
>> I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a
>> better place on the IG map.
>>
>> SOME PENDING BUSINESS
>>
>> Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
>> had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
>> Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
>> Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
>> 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
>> conclusion given to this matter.
>>
>> Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
>> subject line:
>> Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
>> Following is the summary of the main points I got from
>> your contributions to this discussion
>>  [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
>>
>> Suggestions include:
>>
>> -
>> H
>> olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on
>> the topic at Istanbul IGF
>>
>> [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
>> Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
>> Room 9).
>>
>> -
>> C
>> ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
>> [Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
>> is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
>> stakeholders.]
>>
>> -
>> N
>> eed for mutual respect between participants
>> [D
>>  ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no
>> matter how strong
>>  we feel
>>  about being right, contradicting positions may still be
>>  both
>>  valid under
>> different
>>  circumstances or with different assumptions than our
>>  own
>>  (and sure we all have assumptions!)
>> ]
>>
>>
>> -
>> A
>>  minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
>> everybody to participate
>> [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
>> whatever their level of familiarity
>> (or unfamiliarity)
>> with the issues,
>> their level of
>> knowledge or
>>
>> self-confidence
>> (or lack thereof)
>> as regards the relevance of their contribution.
>>  ]
>>
>> -
>> E
>> nabling and fostering trust
>> [M
>> aybe a number of basic principles
>> and ideas
>> should be spelled out here (
>> including for possible
>> charter
>>  revision
>>  ?)
>> as to how to achieve that and
>> ensure a
>>  baseline in expectations with regard to
>> our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to
>> consider the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in
>> leadership position, if relevant.]
>>
>> -  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views
>> that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.
>>
>> -
>> IGC should engage in Social
>> C
>> apacity building
>> in
>>  I
>> G and
>>  related activism
>>
>> "
>> People need to be educated through any extensive
>> [as well as extension]
>> program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
>> vulnerability
>> " in the face of the d
>> evelopment
>>  of the cyber-environment
>> .
>> "
>> People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
>> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great,
>> if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
>>  "
>>
>> -
>> IGC should engage in (enabling)
>>  Customer protection
>> based on
>>  Human rights, multilingualism
>> , regional/
>>  cultural diversity
>> : Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help
>> empower end-users.
>> -
>> W
>> e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
>> entity
>>
>> [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
>> Coordination Group, CSCG]
>>
>> -
>>  R
>> eform is needed to enable
>> such entity
>>
>> with
>>  reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
>> with
>>  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil
>> society coordination function
>>
>> [In process with the CSCG]
>>
>> - Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
>> exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
>> [This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
>> by the CSCG]
>>
>> - "
>> The alternative
>>  [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
>>  would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
>> respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
>> this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
>> forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
>> substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
>> their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
>> nominations.
>>  "
>>
>> [Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
>> policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
>> remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
>>
>> - "a
>> s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
>> ordination - I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
>> potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
>> here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
>> statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool)
>> and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader
>> consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues
>> to enjoy strong support from all groups.
>>  "
>>
>> - In the discussion it was also noted that "
>> IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
>>  ...
>> who will never agree on much
>> ."
>>
>> Now questions:
>> - How do we get there from here?
>> - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on
>> much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points
>> sufficient?
>> - How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for
>> broader consensus?
>> - Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination
>> of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort
>> of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
>> compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
>> those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
>> ----
>>
>> Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield
>> the floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
>> hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
>> Take it away, ladies!
>>
>> With my very best wishes,
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>> =====================================
>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>> Founder
>> & CEO
>>
>> DIGILEXIS
>> Consulting
>> http://www.digilexis.com
>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com <kichango at gmail.com>*
>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>> Skype: digilexis
>> =====================================
>>
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From salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com  Tue Jan 20 20:49:28 2015
From: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com (Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:49:28 -1000
Subject: [governance] Invitation to Internet Governance Session #PTC15
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Dear All,

Firstly apologies for the cross posting. I would like to invite you to the Pacific Telecommunication Council 15 Conference's Executive Roundtable on Internet Governance which is being held in Coral Room 2 at The Hilton, Hawaiian Village from 4pm till 5pm Honolulu time.

You can follow the twitter hashtag #PTC15 #IGF 

Session Description is as follows:

Executive Insight Roundtable 10: Internet Governance
In 2005, the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society defined Internet governance as "the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet." The Internet is expanding exponentially. The Internet Governance Forum mandate from the United nations ends in 2015. Though there is no sign that the future of the IGF is in danger, so far there is no word from the UN asking for input on the renewal of IGF. In early 2014, the U.S. government announced plans to relinquish its historic stewardship over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which is operated by ICANN, to the global multi-stakeholder Internet community when its contract with ICANN expires in September 2015.Many experts believe this change may set the stage for broader changes in other areas of Internet governance, such as intellectual property rights and cybersecurity.

Who is responsible for Internet governance among the different stakeholder groups? What are issues that may disrupt the roles of existing stakeholders? How should consensus on key principles or outcomes be reached for solutions that benefit the global Internet rather than special interests?
 How should market-specific challenges or issues that are particular to a local community be approached for the global Internet to continue its innovative contributions? These are just some of the challenging questions around Internet Governance that will be discussed in this executive insight roundtable.

Moderator:
Steven Smith, Associate VP, IT Technology & Deputy CIO, University of Hawaii, USA
Panelists:
David Conrad, CTO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
John Curran, President and CEO, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
Paul Wilson, Director General, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)
With every best wish,
Sala

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From bzs at world.std.com  Tue Jan 20 21:08:32 2015
From: bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:08:32 -0500
Subject: [governance] A different frame
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 > > <https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-different-way-of-looking-at-things/%20> from 

Does anyone actually believe this? That the development of the
internet avoided political questions?

I've been involved with the internet since the 1970s and it always
seemed to me every new technology raised political and rights
questions almost to the point of tears.

The author gives an example of an IETF discussion about determining
location from browsers and how when possible misuse was raised by him
the participants shrugged him off, not our concern, he surmised.

It's not that they refused to consider the possible negative
implications. It's that technology tends to progress in parallel to
such considerations.

You can't just rathole every technical discussion with possible
negative implications any more than it would be appreciated if I, a
rather technical person, would rathole discussions on a list like this
with technical discourse. Most of you wouldn't even survive the hail
of acronyms any more than technical people could survive yours.

You'd get bored to the point of irritation or apathy, we'd make no
progress, the number of people present with expertise to judge whether
technical proposals were feasible is low in density here, and the
organization of the discussion is not suited to the convergence of
technical ideas.

I regularly see comments made here that indicate technical naivete but
then I try to refocus my mind on the more political aspect being
expressed rather than, analogous to the author, interrupt with
technical improvements or insights.

Look at what happened last week when I simply tried to point out how
the layers of the net are actually managed as opposed to the truncated
block-diagram fantasies many seem to work from.

The subject of the comment ignored me, sent a maverick who tried to
answer with a snarky two-word reply, and otherwise...silence (other
than a few if I may say applause lines sent privately to me.)

Trust me, technical people reading this list are as flabbergasted as
the author tries to express.

Rather than trying to draw such us vs them / tribalistic distinctions
-- my two-cent summary of that blog post -- perhaps it would be better
if we tried to work on these problems together?

This is a very complex interdisciplinary subject area, much like arms
control as one analogy. You're not going to make it by driving off or
trivializing people with a different skill set and focus.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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From remmyn at gmail.com  Wed Jan 21 05:17:30 2015
From: remmyn at gmail.com (Remmy Nweke)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:17:30 -0800
Subject: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
 Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator
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Congrats to all the new executives.

Remmy Nweke
@ITRealms


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From: Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>
Sent: 19/01/2015 20:25
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Results of the IGC 2015 Coordinator Election -
Welcoming the newly elected co-coordinator

Thank you Mawaki for all your good work. Congratulations Analia.


Sivasubramanian M
India.

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Rejoice, for we have a new co-coordinator! Hence, here is my last message
> as a co-co to report about the election and share some final thoughts on my
> way out. .
>
> THE ELECTION PROCESS
>
> In this month of January 2015 one co-coordinator seat became vacant and
> was up for filling. The election process kick started with a call for
> nominations posted to the IGC list on 18 November 2014. By the end of the
> nomination period on 19 December, we received the following confirmed
> nominations:
>
> 1) Analia Aspis
> 2) Arsene Tungali
> 3) Kawsar Uddin
>
> After setting up the survey in the online system used for IGC elections,
> we had to prepare the voting list by making sure all members who meet the
> voting criteria are included in the list, despite potential confusion due
> to the fact that the IGC website seems to re-initialize the count of
> membership time span from the last time members' information (eg, email
> address) has been updated. This worked rather well since for all the misses
> that were reported, only one or two were confirmed after verification. The
> email ballot paper sent to about a dozen voters got probably lost in their
> spam folder or they simply missed it in their regular mailbox.
>
> After the election started, we were reminded of the need to add an
> abstention option for those who do want to exercise their right to vote
> (and be on the record for participating in the election) without the
> obligation to give their vote to one or another of the candidates standing.
> After checking, it has appeared that a "No candidate" vote was in option in
> the last election cycle (2014). However, we first missed that as we were
> using a template from the latest election where only one coordinator was to
> be elected, which was in 2013 (in 2014, the two co-coordinators were to be
> replaced.) Hopefully now we will systematically have an "Abstention" or "No
> candidate" option (whichever the Caucus finds more appropriate) on the
> ballot next to the candidates' names.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all three candidates for
> their dedication and willingness to step forward and serve this community.
> Any of them would have made a positive difference for the Caucus and bring
> more diversity to its leadership.
>
> THE ELECTION RESULTS
>
> The results of the elections are as follows.
>
> Total number of tokens generated and invitations sent = 488
> Total number of valid votes (survey completed) = 163
> Incomplete responses = 31
> Total responses = 194
>
> Votes received by the candidates:
> 1) Analia Aspis = 83 (42.78%)
> 2) Arsene Tungali = 57 (29.38%)
> 3) Kawsar Uddin = 22 (11.34%)
> 4) None of the nominees = 1 (0.52%)
> 5) No answer = 10 (5.15%)
> 6) Not completed or not displayed = 21 (10.82%)
>
> (Please note the details of these results will be posted to the IGC web
> page later and the link will be forwarded here when done.)
>
> This makes Analia Aspis the next IGC co-coordinator. Congratulations,
> Analia! With you I am delighted and confident to pass on the baton to good
> hands. Welcome on board! In your nomination statement, I note and applaud
> your eagerness to bring IG regional actions into IGC focus and to make this
> place ever more relevant to young researchers and beyond. I wish you every
> success!
>
> THANK YOU'S
>
> Furthermore, I would like also to seize this opportunity to thank my
> "coordinatorship mate" (for lack of a better word) Deirdre Williams. During
> our time together she had carried out the most thankless coordination tasks
> more times than I can count (the ones that we didn't even suspect would be
> on our plate when each of us decided to stand for the election.) For that
> and for her patience I am grateful.
>
> I know well too much how easier (and much less time consuming) it often is
> to get things done by yourself, when you know how to do them, than to have
> to instruct and explain to a novice how to get the job done. Well, I,
> stubborn learner, had Jeremy take the longer path and heavier burden to
> provide guidance, patiently and always swiftly replying to my inquiries and
> helping me navigate through the challenges I was facing with the online
> election system and the mechanics of the IGC website. Thank you, Jeremy!
>
> Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for
> your support, patience and understanding. I know we have not always been in
> agreement and I am most certain I haven't met everyone's expectations, but
> I felt almost all of you have each time given me the benefit of the doubt.
> I appreciate that, and only wish I could have done more to put IGC at a
> better place on the IG map.
>
> SOME PENDING BUSINESS
>
> Speaking of the place of IGC on the Internet governance map, I recall we
> had an unfinished business, which I'll make sure to leave you with.
> Following is the synthesis of the consultation we had a while before IGF
> Istanbul regarding the way forward for IGC. It was posted to this list on
> 31/8/2014. I would hope to see one day some follow up action or some
> conclusion given to this matter.
>
> Between June 26 and 30, we had here a discussion running by the following
> subject line:
> Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC
> Following is the summary of the main points I got from
> your contributions to this discussion
>  [adding my summary notes, observations/comments in square brackets].
>
> Suggestions include:
>
> -
> H
> olding a face to face workshop, accommodating remote participation, on the
> topic at Istanbul IGF
>
> [This will be taking place at IGF 2014 this
> Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 is Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level /
> Room 9).
>
> -
> C
> ontemplating the possibility of national or regional chapters for IGC
> [Make sure this not be confused with IGFs at the base. One thing for sure
> is that IGC is meant to embody the CS component while IGF for all
> stakeholders.]
>
> -
> N
> eed for mutual respect between participants
> [D
>  ifferences in positions should be aired with the predicate that no matter
> how strong
>  we feel
>  about being right, contradicting positions may still be
>  both
>  valid under
> different
>  circumstances or with different assumptions than our
>  own
>  (and sure we all have assumptions!)
> ]
>
>
> -
> A
>  minimum level of decorum or "netiquette" to ensure it is safe for
> everybody to participate
> [It's critical to make it comfortable for people to participate
> whatever their level of familiarity
> (or unfamiliarity)
> with the issues,
> their level of
> knowledge or
>
> self-confidence
> (or lack thereof)
> as regards the relevance of their contribution.
>  ]
>
> -
> E
> nabling and fostering trust
> [M
> aybe a number of basic principles
> and ideas
> should be spelled out here (
> including for possible
> charter
>  revision
>  ?)
> as to how to achieve that and
> ensure a
>  baseline in expectations with regard to
> our respective and mutual commitments. This might be the place to consider
> the question of 'conflict of interests' policy for those in leadership
> position, if relevant.]
>
> -  IGC still provides a space to aggregate many of the differing views
> that "civil society" holds about Internet governance.
>
> -
> IGC should engage in Social
> C
> apacity building
> in
>  I
> G and
>  related activism
>
> "
> People need to be educated through any extensive
> [as well as extension]
> program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their
> vulnerability
> " in the face of the d
> evelopment
>  of the cyber-environment
> .
> "
> People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great,
> if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
>  "
>
> -
> IGC should engage in (enabling)
>  Customer protection
> based on
>  Human rights, multilingualism
> , regional/
>  cultural diversity
> : Seek best practices in the field of customer protection and help empower
> end-users.
> -
> W
> e absolutely need a credible broadly accepted civil society coordination
> entity
>
> [This is being taken care of through the newly set up Civil Society
> Coordination Group, CSCG]
>
> -
>  R
> eform is needed to enable
> such entity
>
> with
>  reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making
> with
>  regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a civil
> society coordination function
>
> [In process with the CSCG]
>
> - Criticism or fear was raised with the notion that the CSCG might be
> exclusionary or the fact that it is so far perceived by some as such.
> [This might be addressed through the operating procedures to be developed
> by the CSCG]
>
> - "
> The alternative
>  [to CSCG in coordinating CS appointments]
>  would be IGC. However that would require a few changes so that IGC could
> respond more promptly, and also for the role and processes of IGC in doing
> this to be acceptable to the myriad parties who in the past few years have
> forwarded their own civil society MAG nominations. Quite clearly some
> substantial groups within IGC have not been happy for IGC to do this on
> their behalf in the past few years, thus leading to them making their own
> nominations.
>  "
>
> [Please note that the CSCG is not meant to develop policies or submit
> policy positions on behalf of its members' constituents. So the question
> remains: How can we as IGC get there from here?]
>
> - "a
> s regards the broader question of policy statements and policy co
> ordination - I do not think CSCG is a good vehicle for this.  IGC is
> potentially, but there has been difficulty in getting consensus positions
> here in the past, which led to the creation of Best Bits (where sign on
> statements not acceptable to 100% of civil society became a useful tool)
> and later to Just Net Coalition. Where there is potentially a broader
> consensus, I think IGC can play a very useful role, providing it continues
> to enjoy strong support from all groups.
>  "
>
> - In the discussion it was also noted that "
> IGC is the big tent for Internet governance geeks of all persuasions
>  ...
> who will never agree on much
> ."
>
> Now questions:
> - How do we get there from here?
> - Is there any remedy to this (the fact that IGC cab "never agree on
> much") beyond the above points for improvements? Or are these points
> sufficient?
> - How can we detect and handle cases where there is a potential for
> broader consensus?
> - Where there is not such potential how do we deal with the coordination
> of policy positions and making policy statements? Shall we create some sort
> of internal Dynamic Coalitions mechanism? Can these find some level of
> compromise after they develop their baseline positions, and if not how will
> those positions relate to IGC as a whole as they may be contradicting?
> ----
>
> Right here ends my term as IGC co-coordinator. I am delighted to yield the
> floor (or rather the stage) to two remarkable women and leaders, both
> hailing from Latin America and the Caribbean.
> Take it away, ladies!
>
> With my very best wishes,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> =====================================
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> & CEO
>
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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Wed Jan 21 05:46:12 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (Jefsey)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:46:12 +0100
Subject: [governance] A different frame
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At 03:08 21/01/2015, Barry Shein wrote:

>  > > 
> <https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-different-way-of-looking-at-things/%20> 
> from
>
>Does anyone actually believe this? That the development of the
>internet avoided political questions?
>
>I've been involved with the internet since the 1970s and it always
>seemed to me every new technology raised political and rights
>questions almost to the point of tears.

So did I.
The worst one was the US political choice for the global spread of 
the internet status-quo strategy we are seeing politically evoluting 
nowadays as a "neutrality/permissionless innovation" culture of 
"multistakeholders" against an "omnistakeholders" reality.

Up to the point Jari Arkko has transitioned the IETF to the USIETF 
for its 29th birthday (http://www.ietf.org/blog/) where the NTIA has 
***replaced*** the IAB.

I quote:
"
* Both the numbers and names communities need to complete their 
proposals. We at the IETF will continue engage with them with their 
work, just as they assisted us with ours.
* Later, the IANA Transition Coordination Group (ICG) will assemble a 
complete proposal and gather community feedback on the result. When 
ready, they will submit the final proposal to the NTIA.
* The NTIA  must then consider and approve the proposal.
* Finally it must be implemented.
"

This is politically conformant to the RFC 6852 where IEEE, IAB, IETF, 
ISOC, and W3C state: "We embrace a modern paradigm for standards 
where the economics of global markets, fueled by technological 
advancements, drive global deployment of standards regardless of 
their formal status." We now know that the politicotechnical referent 
for the I*gang internet is the NTIA.

This is quite different from the master of my use of the collective 
FLOSS Catenet, as everyone, is me. The WSIS information society is to 
be "people centered, à caractère humain, centrada en la persona". The 
political opposition to that is to make it US (IETF) or WEF (ICANN) oriented.

This why we are engaging the Catenet.Coop projet for a non-political 
collective/cooperative/concerted intelligent use of our 
interconnected datacommunications resources and we will use a French 
law "SCIC" (common interest cooperative corporation) that "says one 
stakeholder, one vote; permits people, corporations and states to 
associate; and does not require capital funding - we all paid for our 
common catenet for a long).

Because Aristotle invented architectonics (the discipline of reality) 
as the ***science*** of politics, of which the ***art*** is to lead 
free men - whose the sociability is now computer facilitated.

Cheers !!!

jfc

NB. "I want to know about the vast conspiracy which, for as long as I 
can remember, has resulted in Barry Shein's always saying something 
that is more interesting and intelligent than everything everyone 
else (including me [and possibly Jefsey]) has said about the same 
topics. - Mark Dominus, on Facebook, 27 July 2009."
Le Monde C'est Lui !

>The author gives an example of an IETF discussion about determining
>location from browsers and how when possible misuse was raised by him
>the participants shrugged him off, not our concern, he surmised.
>
>It's not that they refused to consider the possible negative
>implications. It's that technology tends to progress in parallel to
>such considerations.
>
>You can't just rathole every technical discussion with possible
>negative implications any more than it would be appreciated if I, a
>rather technical person, would rathole discussions on a list like this
>with technical discourse. Most of you wouldn't even survive the hail
>of acronyms any more than technical people could survive yours.
>
>You'd get bored to the point of irritation or apathy, we'd make no
>progress, the number of people present with expertise to judge whether
>technical proposals were feasible is low in density here, and the
>organization of the discussion is not suited to the convergence of
>technical ideas.
>
>I regularly see comments made here that indicate technical naivete but
>then I try to refocus my mind on the more political aspect being
>expressed rather than, analogous to the author, interrupt with
>technical improvements or insights.
>
>Look at what happened last week when I simply tried to point out how
>the layers of the net are actually managed as opposed to the truncated
>block-diagram fantasies many seem to work from.
>
>The subject of the comment ignored me, sent a maverick who tried to
>answer with a snarky two-word reply, and otherwise...silence (other
>than a few if I may say applause lines sent privately to me.)
>
>Trust me, technical people reading this list are as flabbergasted as
>the author tries to express.
>
>Rather than trying to draw such us vs them / tribalistic distinctions
>-- my two-cent summary of that blog post -- perhaps it would be better
>if we tried to work on these problems together?
>
>This is a very complex interdisciplinary subject area, much like arms
>control as one analogy. You're not going to make it by driving off or
>trivializing people with a different skill set and focus.
>
>--
>         -Barry Shein
>
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From jeanchristophe.nothias at gmail.com  Wed Jan 21 05:56:18 2015
From: jeanchristophe.nothias at gmail.com (Jean-Christophe Nothias)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:56:18 +0100
Subject: [governance] A different frame
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e-thee who holds the world in his hands!

Thanks to you and Barry for these thoughts and info.

JC


Le 21 janv. 2015 à 11:46, Jefsey a écrit :

> At 03:08 21/01/2015, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
>> > > <https://johnc1912.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-different-way-of-looking-at-things/%20> from
>> 
>> Does anyone actually believe this? That the development of the
>> internet avoided political questions?
>> 
>> I've been involved with the internet since the 1970s and it always
>> seemed to me every new technology raised political and rights
>> questions almost to the point of tears.
> 
> So did I.
> The worst one was the US political choice for the global spread of the internet status-quo strategy we are seeing politically evoluting nowadays as a "neutrality/permissionless innovation" culture of "multistakeholders" against an "omnistakeholders" reality.
> 
> Up to the point Jari Arkko has transitioned the IETF to the USIETF for its 29th birthday (http://www.ietf.org/blog/) where the NTIA has ***replaced*** the IAB.
> 
> I quote:
> "
> * Both the numbers and names communities need to complete their proposals. We at the IETF will continue engage with them with their work, just as they assisted us with ours.
> * Later, the IANA Transition Coordination Group (ICG) will assemble a complete proposal and gather community feedback on the result. When ready, they will submit the final proposal to the NTIA.
> * The NTIA  must then consider and approve the proposal.
> * Finally it must be implemented.
> "
> 
> This is politically conformant to the RFC 6852 where IEEE, IAB, IETF, ISOC, and W3C state: "We embrace a modern paradigm for standards where the economics of global markets, fueled by technological advancements, drive global deployment of standards regardless of their formal status." We now know that the politicotechnical referent for the I*gang internet is the NTIA.
> 
> This is quite different from the master of my use of the collective FLOSS Catenet, as everyone, is me. The WSIS information society is to be "people centered, à caractère humain, centrada en la persona". The political opposition to that is to make it US (IETF) or WEF (ICANN) oriented.
> 
> This why we are engaging the Catenet.Coop projet for a non-political collective/cooperative/concerted intelligent use of our interconnected datacommunications resources and we will use a French law "SCIC" (common interest cooperative corporation) that "says one stakeholder, one vote; permits people, corporations and states to associate; and does not require capital funding - we all paid for our common catenet for a long).
> 
> Because Aristotle invented architectonics (the discipline of reality) as the ***science*** of politics, of which the ***art*** is to lead free men - whose the sociability is now computer facilitated.
> 
> Cheers !!!
> 
> jfc
> 
> NB. "I want to know about the vast conspiracy which, for as long as I can remember, has resulted in Barry Shein's always saying something that is more interesting and intelligent than everything everyone else (including me [and possibly Jefsey]) has said about the same topics. - Mark Dominus, on Facebook, 27 July 2009."
> Le Monde C'est Lui !
> 
>> The author gives an example of an IETF discussion about determining
>> location from browsers and how when possible misuse was raised by him
>> the participants shrugged him off, not our concern, he surmised.
>> 
>> It's not that they refused to consider the possible negative
>> implications. It's that technology tends to progress in parallel to
>> such considerations.
>> 
>> You can't just rathole every technical discussion with possible
>> negative implications any more than it would be appreciated if I, a
>> rather technical person, would rathole discussions on a list like this
>> with technical discourse. Most of you wouldn't even survive the hail
>> of acronyms any more than technical people could survive yours.
>> 
>> You'd get bored to the point of irritation or apathy, we'd make no
>> progress, the number of people present with expertise to judge whether
>> technical proposals were feasible is low in density here, and the
>> organization of the discussion is not suited to the convergence of
>> technical ideas.
>> 
>> I regularly see comments made here that indicate technical naivete but
>> then I try to refocus my mind on the more political aspect being
>> expressed rather than, analogous to the author, interrupt with
>> technical improvements or insights.
>> 
>> Look at what happened last week when I simply tried to point out how
>> the layers of the net are actually managed as opposed to the truncated
>> block-diagram fantasies many seem to work from.
>> 
>> The subject of the comment ignored me, sent a maverick who tried to
>> answer with a snarky two-word reply, and otherwise...silence (other
>> than a few if I may say applause lines sent privately to me.)
>> 
>> Trust me, technical people reading this list are as flabbergasted as
>> the author tries to express.
>> 
>> Rather than trying to draw such us vs them / tribalistic distinctions
>> -- my two-cent summary of that blog post -- perhaps it would be better
>> if we tried to work on these problems together?
>> 
>> This is a very complex interdisciplinary subject area, much like arms
>> control as one analogy. You're not going to make it by driving off or
>> trivializing people with a different skill set and focus.
>> 
>> --
>>        -Barry Shein
>> 
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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Wed Jan 21 10:58:03 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:58:03 -0400
Subject: [governance] Fwd: EFF Seeks a Latin American Community Development
 Coordinator
Message-ID: <CAMz5XN6pW35eh8bWUgJU84zsd1f=RVy3E1G+aDqzEGLvbo+Zpg@mail.gmail.com>

For your information - Latin America, Spanish speakers.
Deirdre


*De:* Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org>
*Fecha:* 21 de enero de 2015, 12:46:39 GMT-3
*Para:* general at listas.redpatodos.co
*Asunto:* *[RedPato2] EFF Seeks a Latin American Community Development
Coordinator*
*Responder a:* general at listas.redpatodos.co

EFF Seeks a Latin American Community Development Coordinator

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit civil society
organization based in San Francisco, is looking for a Latin American
Community Development Coordinator to support its work in the region.

Responsibilities include:


   - Communicating our (often complex) technical and policy issues to
   everyday citizens in a clear, compelling, and concise voice in Spanish and
   English;
   - Writing, co-writing, editing, and proofreading blog posts in Spanish
   about EFF’s work in Latin America as events unfold;
   - Monitoring emerging trends and developments in Latin America in the
   areas of human rights in the digital environment via social networks,
   Twitter, traditional media outlets, etc.; and
   - Meeting with EFF partners in Latin America to provide support on
   issues relating to the Internet and human rights, including ensuring that
   events are run successfully.


This ideal candidate is enthusiastic, committed and passionate about
technology and human rights. Along with the writing aspects of the work,
the role also requires tedious administrative work to organize online
discussions and workshops in Latin America.

Requirements:

   - Knowledge of issues related to digital rights generally, and
   preferably in Latin America;
   - Openness and ability to learn new issues quickly and comprehensively;
   - Intellectual curiosity;
   - Oral and written fluency in Spanish;
   - Ability to write clearly, persuasively, and quickly for a range of
   audiences in Spanish;
   - Ability to communicate comfortably and clearly in English;
   - Experience maintaining and contributing to online media, including
   blogs and social media;
   - Good organizational and administrative skills;
   - Ability to work under strict deadlines and/or time constraints, to
   prioritize your workload to meet deadlines, and to multitask; and
   - Willingness to travel within Latin America (no more than 20%).


EFF’s new Latin American Community Development Coordinator is a team player
with strong interpersonal skills who can also work independently. This
person is self-motivated and
has a positive attitude and can-do approach. This position is for an
individual who can focus on solutions, proactively and creatively seeking
out opportunities for process improvement.

In addition, knowledge of or experience with any of the following would be
advantageous:


   - A degree or comparable experience in communications or Spanish
   writing;
   - Experience organizing online campaigns; and
   - Ability to write clearly, persuasively, and quickly for a range of
   audiences in Portuguese.


The Latin American Community Development Coordinator is a new consultant
position and is based in Latin America. This person will report directly to
EFF’s International Rights Director, Katitza Rodriguez. The salary for this
position is USD 20,000 annually. To apply, send a cover letter and resume
in Spanish and English, along with two writing samples in Spanish, to
jobs at eff.org.  No phone calls please!

Closing date for applications: 31 January 2015 (midnight)
Interviews will be held the week of 10 February 2015.

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From rafik.dammak at gmail.com  Thu Jan 22 04:03:18 2015
From: rafik.dammak at gmail.com (Rafik Dammak)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:03:18 +0900
Subject: [governance] =?UTF-8?Q?FW=3A_ICANN_News_Alert_--_Webinar_Invitati?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?on_=E2=80=93_IANA_Stewardship_Transition=3A_ICANN_Workshop_and_?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?Webinar_for_Civil_Society_and_the_Noncommercial_Sector?=
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FYI

> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-21-en
>
> ________________________________
> Webinar Invitation – IANA Stewardship Transition: ICANN Workshop and
Webinar for Civil Society and the Noncommercial Sector
>
> 21 January 2015
>
> ICANN is hosting an information session to brief and discuss the ongoing
evolution of Internet governance. This session will be tailored to provide
an update on the U.S. Government's announcement to transition its oversight
of the IANA functions contract to the global multistakeholder community,
and the parallel process of Enhancing ICANN's Accountability in light of
this changing historical relationship.
>
> This will be an event to learn more on the latest developments on the two
processes and walk-through any upcoming opportunities for input. (Lunch
will be provided)
>
> When: 23 January 12:00-13:00 CET (UTC + 01:00)
> Where: ICANN Brussels Office, 1st floor, 6 Rond-Point Schuman
>
> Additionally, the event will be hosted as a Webinar:
>
> Conference dial-in details: An audio line will be available to take part
in the discussion.
>
> From Belgium: +32 78 480 286
> From the UK: +442070990867
> Conference ID: 21912
>
> (For other countries, please visit: http://adigo.com/icann).
>
> Suggested Agenda
> Introduction/Overview of the Internet Governance Ecosystem and ICANN
(Jean-Jacques Sahel and Adam Peake)
> Overview of the IANA Stewardship Transition and Enhancing ICANN
Accountability Processes (Theresa Swinehart)
> Presentation on the IANA Stewardship Transition (Theresa Swinehart and
Grace Abuhamad)
> Presentation on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (Theresa Swinehart, Adam
Peake and Alice Jansen)
>
> Please register by emailing europe at icann.org.
>
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From nb at bollow.ch  Thu Jan 22 08:36:15 2015
From: nb at bollow.ch (Norbert Bollow)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:36:15 +0100
Subject: [governance] Internet Social Forum
Message-ID: <20150122143615.700b2f52@quill>

Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
– With a call to occupy the Internet

PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.

A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!

The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
counter initiative to the WEF.

The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.

“While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider public
interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
initiative.

The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
community to generate and share.

Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna
Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
democracy movements and social justice activists.

This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.

The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
People's Internet Manifesto.

Just Net Coalition, Global
P2P Foundation, Global
Transnational Institute, Global
Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
Knowledge Commons, India
Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
SLFC.in, India
CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
Canada IT for Change, India
Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
Free Press, USA
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
Other News, Italy
Free Software Movement of India
Global_Geneva, Switzerland
Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
All India Peoples Science Network, India
Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA

Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
information or clarification.

Or the following regional contacts:

Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>


This press release is also available online, e.g. at
http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF

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From fulvio.frati at unimi.it  Thu Jan 22 08:48:27 2015
From: fulvio.frati at unimi.it (Fulvio Frati)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:48:27 +0100
Subject: [governance] [CFP]: OSS2015 Ph.D. Contest
Message-ID: <011b01d0364a$1949a140$4bdce3c0$@unimi.it>

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

*****************************************************************************

11th Intl. Conf. on Open Source Systems (OSS2015)

Software Ecosystems Mining and Modelling PH.D. Contest

*****************************************************************************

As an addition to the OSS conference in 2015, we invite talented graduate students (Msc, PhD, and beyond) to submit their data sets, models, and papers to the Software Ecosystems Mining and Modelling contest. We are looking for innovations in the fields of open source ecosystem mining and modelling and aim to showcase groundbreaking results in the domain. 

 

We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:

- Software ecosystems data

- Software ecosystems models

- Relationship and structure mining techniques

- Relationship analysis 

- Software modeling

- App store and plug-in directory analysis

- OSS ecosystem strategy analysis

- OSS governance

- OSS quality control

- Multi-homing

Please note that we are explicitly looking for software ecosystem themed submissions. Submissions that concern single OSS projects are definitely interesting, but if they do not have some direct consequence for multiple (related) projects, the submissions will automatically be appreciated lower.

** Submission Dates

Contest Deadline: 28 February 2015

Winner Announcement: 7 March 2015

** Submission Format

The format for your submission is not restricted. Please make sure it is accompanied by an LNCS formatted submission document of up to 10 pages, although in some cases one page might suffice. The submissions must be submitted to EcosystemMiningContest at oss.org <mailto:EcosystemMiningContest at oss.org> .  

 

** Prize

The best proposals will be published in the OSS2015 Conference Proceedings, in the Ph.D. Contest section.

The winner will be invited to present his/her paper during the conference, and will have travel expenses (flight, max 500€) and registration granted by the conference organization.

The winner will also be awarded with a certificate of winning the Graduate Student Software Ecosystems Mining and Modelling Contest.

** Committee

The jury for the contest consists of:

Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Ernesto Damiani, Milan University, Italy

Fulvio Frati, Milan University, Italy

 

 

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From parminder at itforchange.net  Thu Jan 22 11:01:33 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:31:33 +0530
Subject: [governance] Internet Social Forum
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Enclosed Spanish version... parminder


On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
> – With a call to occupy the Internet
>
> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>
> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>
> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
> counter initiative to the WEF.
>
> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>
> “While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
> privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider public
> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
> ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
> initiative.
>
> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
> community to generate and share.
>
> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna
> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>
> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>
> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
> People's Internet Manifesto.
>
> Just Net Coalition, Global
> P2P Foundation, Global
> Transnational Institute, Global
> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
> Knowledge Commons, India
> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
> SLFC.in, India
> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
> Canada IT for Change, India
> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
> Free Press, USA
> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
> Other News, Italy
> Free Software Movement of India
> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
> All India Peoples Science Network, India
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>
> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
> information or clarification.
>
> Or the following regional contacts:
>
> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
>
> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Fri Jan 23 03:24:12 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:54:12 +0530
Subject: [governance] for the WEF and NMI enthusiasts
Message-ID: <54C2052C.9010009@itforchange.net>

Maybe the following is something to ponder upon ..

Not only is the inequality at an unacceptable level, the pace of its 
growth in unthinkably high, coinciding with a period when Internet is 
transforming every social structure and system.

Is the IG civil society contributing to the problem or solving it - or 
has it even seen the problem in the right manner, beyond what is 
presented by those who gain the most from current Internet power 
configurations.....

But then perhaps one may want to ignore this as not an IG issue.... 
parminder

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/davos-world-economic-forum/article6812228.ece


thehindu.com 
<http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/davos-world-economic-forum/article6812228.ece> 



  In Davos, worrying about inequality

  * by Seumas Milne
  * Jan. 23, 2015
  * original
    <http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/davos-world-economic-forum/article6812228.ece>


The billionaires and corporate oligarchs meeting in Davos this week are 
getting worried about inequality. It might be hard to stomach that the 
overlords of a system that has delivered the widest global economic gulf 
in human history should be hand-wringing about the consequences of their 
own actions.

But even the architects of the crisis-ridden international economic 
order are starting to see the dangers. It’s not just the maverick 
hedge-funder George Soros, who likes to describe himself as a class 
traitor. Paul Polman, Unilever chief executive, frets about the 
“capitalist threat to capitalism.” Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing 
director, fears capitalism might indeed carry Marx’s “seeds of its own 
destruction” and warns that something needs to be done.

The scale of the crisis has been laid out for them by the charity Oxfam. 
Just 80 individuals now have the same net wealth as 3.5 billion people — 
half the entire global population. Last year, the best-off one per cent 
owned 48 per cent of the world’s wealth, up from 44 per cent five years 
ago. On current trends, the richest one per cent will have pocketed more 
than the other 99 per cent put together next year. The 0.1 per cent has 
been doing even better, quadrupling their share of U.S. income since the 
1980s.

This is wealth grab on a grotesque scale. For 30 years, under the rule 
of “market fundamentalism,” inequality in income and wealth has 
ballooned, both between and within the large majority of countries. In 
Africa, the absolute number living on less than $2 a day has doubled 
since 1981.

In most of the world, labour’s share of national income has fallen 
continuously and wages have stagnated under this regime of 
privatisation, deregulation and low taxes on the rich. At the same time 
finance has sucked wealth from the public realm into the hands of a 
small minority, even as it has laid waste the rest of the economy. Now 
the evidence has piled up that not only is such appropriation of wealth 
a moral and social outrage, but it is fuelling social and climate 
conflict, wars, mass migration and political corruption, stunting health 
and life chances and increasing poverty.

Escalating inequality has also been a crucial factor in the economic 
crisis of the past seven years, squeezing demand and fuelling the credit 
boom. We don’t just know that from the research of the French economist 
Thomas Piketty or the British authors of the social study The Spirit 
Level. After years of promoting Washington orthodoxy, even the 
western-dominated OECD and IMF argue that the widening income gap has 
been key to the slow growth of the past two neoliberal decades. The 
British economy would have been almost 10 per cent larger if inequality 
hadn’t mushroomed.

*The big exception*

The big exception to the tide of inequality in recent years has been 
Latin America. Progressive governments across the region turned their 
back on a disastrous economic model, took back resources from corporate 
control and slashed inequality. The numbers living on less than $2 a day 
have fallen from 108 million to 53 million in little over a decade. 
China, which also rejected much of the neoliberal catechism, has seen 
sharply rising inequality at home but also lifted more people out of 
poverty than the rest of the world combined, offsetting the growing 
global income gap.

These two cases underline that increasing inequality and poverty are 
very far from inevitable. They’re the result of political and economic 
decisions. The thinking person’s Davos oligarch realises that allowing 
things to carry on as they are is dangerous. So, some want a more 
“inclusive capitalism” — including more progressive taxes — to save the 
system from itself.

But it certainly won’t come about as a result of Swiss mountain musings 
or anxious Guildhall lunches. Whatever the feelings of some corporate 
barons, vested corporate and elite interests including the organisations 
they run and the political structures they have colonised have shown 
they will fight even modest reforms tooth and nail. To get the idea, you 
only have to listen to the squeals of protest, including from some in 
his own party, at Ed Miliband’s plans to tax homes worth over £2m to 
fund the health service, or the demand from the one-time reformist 
Fabian Society that the Labour leader be more pro-business, or the wall 
of congressional resistance to Barack Obama’s mild redistributive 
taxation proposals.

Perhaps a section of the worried elite might be prepared to pay a bit 
more tax. What they won’t accept is any change in the balance of social 
power — which is why, in one country after another, they resist any 
attempt to strengthen trade unions.

It’s only through a challenge to the entrenched interests that have 
dined off a dysfunctional economic order that the tide of inequality 
will be reversed. The anti-austerity Syriza party, favourite to win the 
Greek elections this weekend, is attempting to do just that — as the 
Latin American left has succeeded in doing over the past decade and a 
half. Even to get to that point demands stronger social and political 
movements to break down or bypass the blockage in a colonised political 
mainstream. Crocodile tears about inequality are a symptom of a fearful 
elite. But change will only come from unrelenting social pressure and 
political challenge.

— *© Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2015 *

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From jlfullsack at orange.fr  Fri Jan 23 04:12:40 2015
From: jlfullsack at orange.fr (Jean-Louis FULLSACK)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:12:40 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [governance] for the WEF and NMI enthusiasts
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Thamnkd Parminder

 

for this document which sums-up the main features of the scandalous inequality put in place by the "Davos oligarchy". Thanks above all to Oxfam for its work, its commitment and its presence in all critical domains and spaces. BTW : did anybody ever meet Oxfam in WSIS events ? The NGO was visionary enough to see how this UN driven (?) Summit has completely failed since a long time ...

 

Best regards

 

Jean-Louis Fullsack

 

 

 

 

> Message du 23/01/15 09:24
> De : "parminder" 

> A : "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" , bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
> Copie à : 
> Objet : [governance] for the WEF and NMI enthusiasts
> 
>Maybe the following is something to ponder upon .. 
> 
> Not only is the inequality at an unacceptable level, the pace of its growth in unthinkably high, coinciding with a period when Internet is transforming every social structure and system. 
> 
> Is the IG civil society contributing to the problem or solving it - or has it even seen the problem in the right manner, beyond what is presented by those who gain the most from current Internet power configurations.....
> 
> But then perhaps one may want to ignore this as not an IG issue.... parminder
> 
> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/davos-world-economic-forum/article6812228.ece
> 
> 
>
thehindu.com 
In Davos, worrying about inequality

by Seumas Milne
Jan. 23, 2015
original 

The billionaires and corporate oligarchs meeting in Davos this week are getting worried about inequality. It might be hard to stomach that the overlords of a system that has delivered the widest global economic gulf in human history should be hand-wringing about the consequences of their own actions.

But even the architects of the crisis-ridden international economic order are starting to see the dangers. It’s not just the maverick hedge-funder George Soros, who likes to describe himself as a class traitor. Paul Polman, Unilever chief executive, frets about the “capitalist threat to capitalism.” Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, fears capitalism might indeed carry Marx’s “seeds of its own destruction” and warns that something needs to be done.

The scale of the crisis has been laid out for them by the charity Oxfam. Just 80 individuals now have the same net wealth as 3.5 billion people — half the entire global population. Last year, the best-off one per cent owned 48 per cent of the world’s wealth, up from 44 per cent five years ago. On current trends, the richest one per cent will have pocketed more than the other 99 per cent put together next year. The 0.1 per cent has been doing even better, quadrupling their share of U.S. income since the 1980s.

This is wealth grab on a grotesque scale. For 30 years, under the rule of “market fundamentalism,” inequality in income and wealth has ballooned, both between and within the large majority of countries. In Africa, the absolute number living on less than $2 a day has doubled since 1981.

In most of the world, labour’s share of national income has fallen continuously and wages have stagnated under this regime of privatisation, deregulation and low taxes on the rich. At the same time finance has sucked wealth from the public realm into the hands of a small minority, even as it has laid waste the rest of the economy. Now the evidence has piled up that not only is such appropriation of wealth a moral and social outrage, but it is fuelling social and climate conflict, wars, mass migration and political corruption, stunting health and life chances and increasing poverty.

Escalating inequality has also been a crucial factor in the economic crisis of the past seven years, squeezing demand and fuelling the credit boom. We don’t just know that from the research of the French economist Thomas Piketty or the British authors of the social study The Spirit Level. After years of promoting Washington orthodoxy, even the western-dominated OECD and IMF argue that the widening income gap has been key to the slow growth of the past two neoliberal decades. The British economy would have been almost 10 per cent larger if inequality hadn’t mushroomed.

The big exception
> 
> The big exception to the tide of inequality in recent years has been Latin America. Progressive governments across the region turned their back on a disastrous economic model, took back resources from corporate control and slashed inequality. The numbers living on less than $2 a day have fallen from 108 million to 53 million in little over a decade. China, which also rejected much of the neoliberal catechism, has seen sharply rising inequality at home but also lifted more people out of poverty than the rest of the world combined, offsetting the growing global income gap.

These two cases underline that increasing inequality and poverty are very far from inevitable. They’re the result of political and economic decisions. The thinking person’s Davos oligarch realises that allowing things to carry on as they are is dangerous. So, some want a more “inclusive capitalism” — including more progressive taxes — to save the system from itself.

But it certainly won’t come about as a result of Swiss mountain musings or anxious Guildhall lunches. Whatever the feelings of some corporate barons, vested corporate and elite interests including the organisations they run and the political structures they have colonised have shown they will fight even modest reforms tooth and nail. To get the idea, you only have to listen to the squeals of protest, including from some in his own party, at Ed Miliband’s plans to tax homes worth over £2m to fund the health service, or the demand from the one-time reformist Fabian Society that the Labour leader be more pro-business, or the wall of congressional resistance to Barack Obama’s mild redistributive taxation proposals.

Perhaps a section of the worried elite might be prepared to pay a bit more tax. What they won’t accept is any change in the balance of social power — which is why, in one country after another, they resist any attempt to strengthen trade unions.

It’s only through a challenge to the entrenched interests that have dined off a dysfunctional economic order that the tide of inequality will be reversed. The anti-austerity Syriza party, favourite to win the Greek elections this weekend, is attempting to do just that — as the Latin American left has succeeded in doing over the past decade and a half. Even to get to that point demands stronger social and political movements to break down or bypass the blockage in a colonised political mainstream. Crocodile tears about inequality are a symptom of a fearful elite. But change will only come from unrelenting social pressure and political challenge.

— © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2015 




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From arsenebaguma at yahoo.fr  Fri Jan 23 06:59:47 2015
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From ca at cafonso.ca  Fri Jan 23 07:32:42 2015
From: ca at cafonso.ca (Carlos A. Afonso)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:32:42 -0200
Subject: [governance] Internet Social Forum
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Below is an excellent response from Jeremy Malcolm (Best Bits, EFF)
regarding the proposal to create a "world social forum" of the Internet.
I am really puzzled: the call from JNC to join ISF is for governments to
occupy the Internet??

fraternal regards

--c.a.

====

http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/who-are-the-just-net-coalition-and-what-can-we-expect-from-the-internet-social-forum

Who are the Just Net Coalition and what can we expect from the Internet
Social Forum?

Jeremy Malcolm

Date: 23/1/2015 3:52 pm

Today, the Just Net Coalition (JNC) [1] has broadcast (on seven mailing
lists alone that I subscribe to) its plans for an Internet Social Forum,
modeled on the World Social Forum, the well-known anti-globalisation
summit. Just as the World Social Forum is held in opposition to the
annual Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), so the Internet
Social Forum is framed as an alternative to the NETmundial Initiative
[2], which JNC describes (inaccurately) as a project of the WEF.

Before saying anything more, I should clarify that I too have been
critical [3] of the NETmundial Initiative, I too believe that the
Internet governance status quo is overdue for reform [4], I also share
concerns about a concentration of market power [5] in the hands of
US-based Internet companies, and I do believe that governments have an
important role to play [6] in future Internet governance arrangements.
However, I won't be supporting the Internet Social Forum, because the
Just Net Coalition's objectives are misguided, and its mode of
engagement with the rest of civil society has been profoundly dysfunctional.

History

Who are the Just Net Coalition? I briefly mentioned them in my last post
[7], but today's announcement has raised further questions among some of
my contacts, and led others to express support the proposal despite not
knowing much of the history of those proposing it. This post is to
provide some of that necessary background, so that those who choose to
endorse the Internet Social Forum will not be taken by surprise when its
proposed “People's Internet Manifesto” takes a course with which they
may profoundly disagree.

The founding meeting of what became the Just Net Coalition February 2014
was invitation-only, and invitations were issued, in the first instance,
only to those known to by sympathetic to the views of the organisers. (A
few key individuals excluded from the first round of invitations were,
at the urging of the meeting's funder, subsequently approached with late
invitations to attend; speaking for myself as one of these, the approach
came far too late for me to make the necessary arrangements even to
obtain a visa.) Consequently, the content of that meeting's outcome
document, the Delhi Declaration for a Just and Equitable Internet [8],
was largely predetermined.

The political programme of that document (more on this below) has a long
history in a disagreement between a few individuals who were members of
the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) [9], that has
frequently threatened to tear that group apart. On some accounts,
indeed, it has already done so – opinions vary on when or whether the
IGC “jumped the shark”, but many count it as the day at an IGC meeting
in 2013 when a prominent JNC member almost came to blows with a female
attendee in an argument, ironically, over his own overbearing behaviour.

The formation of Best Bits [10] in 2012 was (at least on my part, as one
of its founders), partly in response to the decline of the IGC and the
need for a more action-oriented, globally-inclusive civil society
community that could speak on Internet governance and human rights
issues, without requiring a full consensus which (for the IGC, at least)
had become completely unachievable. Those who now lead JNC, at the time,
also held hopes (as did we) that they too could make effective use of
Best Bits as a platform for actions and statements on which a broad
consensus could be reached, which for a time they did, but what
ultimately transpired will be recounted later.

So who are these individuals to whom I am obliquely referring? Although
I don't wish to unduly personalise this post, it is relevant that they
be identified in order to give context to the following section of this
post; and equally, it is quite proper that as spokespersons for the
group, they should be held accountable for their public behaviour and
statements. (I should also add before going further that I have had a
long record of working fruitfully with the individuals named both online
and in person, dating back to 2004. I have even retained one of them as
a paid consultant on a project I managed.)

Amongst the key individuals who have spoken publicly for JNC and who sit
on its steering committee are Parminder Jeet Singh who leads Indian NGO
IT for Change, Michael Gurstein who is a Canadian academic and edits the
Journal of Community Informatics, Norbert Bollow who is a Swiss systems
analyst and FOSS developer, and Richard Hill, former senior staff member
of the ITU, who continues to advocate for an expanded role for the ITU
on Internet-related public policy issues [11]. Many of the groups shown
as supporting the Internet Social Forum in today's announcement are
vanity or hobby projects of these founding individuals. For example
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training is
Gurstein, GodlyGlobal.org is Bollow, and Association for Proper Internet
Governance is Hill.

(You might note that the majority JNC's most vocal key figures,
including others not mentioned above such as Louis Pouzin and
Jean-Christophe Nothias, are white men from industrialised countries.
Now as a white man myself I'm certainly not one to point fingers at
them, but as an organisation that purports to be “globally concerned
with…social justice”, as JNC does [12], this lack of diversity perhaps
bears mentioning.)

Objectives

The positioning of the Just Net Coalition against multi-stakeholder
Internet governance [13], and in favour of a state-centric model,
although now quite overt, became evident gradually. The Delhi
Declaration covers this obliquely, stating “The right to make
Internet-related public policies lies exclusively with those who
legitimately and directly represent people” (ie. states). Another coded
phrase the JNC has used to call for the centralisation of Internet
governance authority in states it its call for “legitimate political
authority” [14].

A turning point came at the meeting of the Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet (WGEC) of
the UN Commission for Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) in
April 2014. To the surprise of other civil society and technical
community delegates at that meeting, Parminder Jeet Singh insisted that
support for paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda [15] be retained in working
group's report, as the representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran also
forcefully argued. Up until then, indeed for an unbroken decade,
opposition to paragraph 35 had been a unanimous civil society position.

Paragraph 35 states (my emphasis):

We reaffirm that the management of the Internet encompasses both
technical and public policy issues and should involve all stakeholders
and relevant intergovernmental and international organizations. In this
respect it is recognized that:

a. *Policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the
sovereign right of States*. They have rights and responsibilities for
international Internet-related public policy issues.

b. The private sector has had, and should continue to have, an important
role in the development of the Internet, both in the technical and
economic fields.

c. *Civil society has also played an important role on Internet matters,
especially *at community level*, and should continue to play such a role.

d. Intergovernmental organizations have had, and should continue to
have, a facilitating role in the coordination of Internet-related public
policy issues.

e. International organizations have also had and should continue to have
an important role in the development of Internet-related technical
standards and relevant policies.

In supporting this paragraph that constricts civil society's role in
Internet governance, Parminder said:

"I have clarity about what is the role of different stakeholders being
quite different to one another and I don't appreciate that
non-governmental actors would have the same role in decision-making than
governmental actors. That should not be acceptable at a global level."

This, translated into JNC policy and the agenda for its Internet Social
Forum, marks a profound shift away from the decentralised and horizontal
model of Internet governance that civil society had heretofore
supported, towards an hierarchical, state-led model.

For a time, JNC attempted to explain away this change by drawing a straw
man distinction between “democratic multi-stakeholderism” (which JNC
supports) and “equal footing multi-stakeholderism” (which it doesn't,
mischaracterising it as “governance by self-selected elites”) [16]. But
it has since mostly abandoned that pretense and become more overt in
promoting an intergovernmental model of Internet governance [17],
stating for example in a more recent statement, “We invite all countries
to call for a Framework Convention on the Internet and to take up
leadership in developing global Internet-related policies,” and averring
that “[w]ithout governmental support, it is difficult, perhaps
impossible to combat the dominance of global Internet monopolies” [18].

Now, I have argued elsewhere why governments ought not to have a
monopoly on the development of Internet-related public policies, but why
a model of multi-stakeholderism that includes governments as a key, but
not dominant stakeholder can still be counted as democratic [19]. You
can accept those arguments or not. If you don't, then you might come
down on JNC's side on this issue, and that would be perfectly legitimate.

But that's only half of the problem with JNC. The other half is the
toxic relationship that its representatives have cultivated with the
rest of civil society.

Relationship with civil society

At the first Best Bits meeting in 2012, much time and many pains were
taken to accommodate the demands of those future JNC committee members
who attended, and this effort did successfully result in a consensus
text to which they were willing to put their names [20]. But from this
point, their participation in Best Bits became less productive and more
divisive, largely over two issues, which were intertwined.

The first has already been mentioned: the fundamental ideological
disagreement over the legitimacy of multi-stakeholder Internet
governance, which was accepted by a majority of Best Bits participants,
but not by those who were later to split off into JNC. This disagreement
took on greater currency when the NETmundial meeting was announced and
Best Bits participants began to coordinate the development of several
joint inputs [21]. When the future JNC leaders found themselves unable
to influence the drafting of these statements to sufficiently accord
with their view that governments should have an outsized role in
Internet governance, the next best option became to disrupt the
development of those statements by hectoring, intimidating and
disparaging participants who expressed pro-multistakeholder views.

As good an example as any, and a more recent one, is Gurstein's reaction
in November 2014 to the qualified support of the Association for
Progressive Communications (APC) for the NETmundial Initiative, to which
he wrote to Anriette Esterhuysen, APC's Executive Director, “I’m taking
from your argument that because the NMI offers some possibility, however
remote for the advancement of human rights, you are completely
abandoning perhaps irrevocably, the pursuit of social justice.” To
anyone who knows of the many years of devotion that Anriette and APC
have given in the cause of social justice (and Gurstein certainly does),
this is a farcical insult.

The second issue to which the disruptive behaviour of JNC
representatives has been directed, which probably arose from the first,
were criticisms of various processes that they found themselves unable
to influence, including not only those of Best Bits, 1net [22], and the
Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) [23]. In a rising tide of
authoritarian behaviour, those who became JNC's leaders would demand
appointment to a position of authority or that these fledgling groups
hold elections immediately, insist that other participants in those
groups disclose of their sources of funding, and cause a commotion about
any strategic discussions that took place off-list or in closed groups.

The response of a relative outsider, Milton Mueller, to Gurstein's
demands for inclusion in 1net aptly record the frustration that many
others felt:

"Stop pretending that CI [Community Informatics] is some massive
grassroots movement related to Internet governance that deserves special
representation; and stop pretending that  your frustration with not
being selected by CS means that their procedures were illegitimate. You
[and] your group are free to contribute position papers to the process
and to attend, as far as we know. Why don’t you see how far you can get
on persuasion and education, if that’s really your mission?"

To give another example, Bollow, who had earlier demanded a full
accounting of the funding sources of Best Bits participants, wrote in
November 2013, “I hereby request the members of the BestBits steering
committee, the members of the IRP Steering Committee, and the
coordinators of the IGC to disclose any direct or indirect financial
relationship to any 'capacity building' or similar kind of project where
a US government agency is among the funders.”

Then again he wrote in October 2014 to the moderators of a closed
strategy list formed for the recent ITU Plenipotentiary meeting – a list
that he had not joined – demanding the right to “inspect” its archives
on behalf of JNC. As for the CSCG, even after it acceded to JNC's
requests and added Bollow as a representative, JNC betrayed that trust
by publishing an account of its private deliberations which criticised
other CSCG members [24], falsely stating that they had decided to
support the NETmundial Initiative.

Although some of JNC's demands of other civil society groups and
networks may have been reasonable in themselves – Best Bits, for
example, always intended to hold steering committee elections and did
hold them within a year of its formation – these demands were delivered
with such hubris and entitlement that the effect has been to isolate JNC
from other civil society groups and networks and to sow seeds of discord
that will have lasting effects.

Ironically the result has been exactly the opposite of what JNC
intended. Discussions have retreated from public, open lists into
private, closed lists – or private cc groups that are not list-managed
at all – precisely to avoid unproductive exchanges with JNC members.

Even more ironically, JNC does not hold itself to the same standards of
transparency and accountability that it demands of others; it has never
been publicly disclosed, for example, receiving funding from
ThoughtWorks, and even the list of signatories of the Delhi Declaration,
which formed the JNC's first membership list, was not made public for
months after its supposed founding, even while further statements
continued to be issued. Neither does JNC operate an open mailing list,
despite vociferous demands that other civil society networks, such as
Best Bits, should do so.

It might be countered that as pernicious as the behaviour of key JNC
members may have been, they are only individuals, and this should not be
attributed to the organisation as a whole. Whilst none of the other JNC
members has ever “broken ranks” and spoken up against even the founders,
this may not be because they are condoning their behaviour, but because
they are unaware of it, since it takes place on other civil society
mailing lists. Might a change of leadership of JNC be all that is
required? This is hard to say, and at present a moot question since no
such change is on the horizon.

Conclusion

What, then, can we expect from JNC's Internet Social Forum? Sadly, we
can expect that any participants who support a distributed,
multi-stakeholder model for Internet governance will be required to
check those convictions at the door, and to embrace instead a UN-based
model that places governments firmly in control of Internet public
policy development. We can expect those who deviate from this line to be
interrogated mercilessly, and accused of being props for neoliberal
hegemony and corporate domination. May JNC's “take no prisoners”
approach serve them well.

This is a shame, because a well-reasoned leftist critique of Internet
governance arrangements and reforms that directs its ire at powerful
incumbents, rather than at those who seek to forge a middle path of
inclusive multi-stakeholder governance, would actually be very valuable.
To date, JNC has exhibited no desire to provide such a sober, productive
critique, instead preferring to focus its destructive anger on easier,
weaker targets – its own civil society colleagues.

-----------------------------

Notes:

[1] http://justnetcoalition.org

[2] https://www.netmundial.org

[3]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-initiative-takes-a-top-down-approach-to-implementing-the-netmundial-principles

[4]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-2014-submission-on-evolution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem

[5]
http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/digital-consumers-breaking-through-the-cloud

[6]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/three-false-assumptions-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-1

[7]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/civil-society-talks-tough-to-the-netmundial-initiative-but-holds-back-on-a-boycott

[8] http://justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration

[9] http://igcaucus.org

[10] http://bestbits.net

[11]
http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/roadmaps-for-further-evolution-of-internet-governance/65

[12]
http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/Delhi_Declaration_leaflet_0.pdf

[13]
http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein

[14] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf

[15] http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html

[16] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/ITU_PP_2014_Stmt2.pdf

[17]
http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein

[18] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf

[19]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/a-civil-society-agenda-for-internet-governance-in-2013-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-3

[20] http://bestbits.net/statement

[21] http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles,
http://bestbits.net/netmundial-roadmap, and
http://bestbits.net/netmundial-icann

[22] http://1net.org/

[23] http://lists.bestbits.net/info/cs-coord

[24] http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan

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On 01/22/2015 11:36 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
> – With a call to occupy the Internet
> 
> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
> 
> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
> 
> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
> counter initiative to the WEF.
> 
> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
> 
> “While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
> privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider public
> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
> ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
> initiative.
> 
> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
> community to generate and share.
> 
> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna
> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
> democracy movements and social justice activists.
> 
> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
> 
> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
> People's Internet Manifesto.
> 
> Just Net Coalition, Global
> P2P Foundation, Global
> Transnational Institute, Global
> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
> Knowledge Commons, India
> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
> SLFC.in, India
> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
> Canada IT for Change, India
> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
> Free Press, USA
> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
> Other News, Italy
> Free Software Movement of India
> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
> All India Peoples Science Network, India
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
> 
> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
> information or clarification.
> 
> Or the following regional contacts:
> 
> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> 
> 
> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
> 

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From gurstein at gmail.com  Fri Jan 23 08:31:41 2015
From: gurstein at gmail.com (michael gurstein)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:31:41 -0800
Subject: [governance] FW: [discuss] Internet Social Forum
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FWIW... Flouting normal academic/journalistic etiquette Jeremy omitted to reference my comments quoted in his blog which for anyone who hasn't been following can be found with context and elaboration in my blog http://gurstein.wordpress.com (key word searches on "multi-stakeholder" and "civil society" should turn these up--and with a bit of digging one might find even more fearsomely critical comments including about CS's unholy partnerships with and financial support from the global Internet elites.

BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing the invitation from Jeremy and the other NMI-nik's inviting global Civil Society to their next 1% err WEF, ICANN, cgi Internet Governance lovefest -- perhaps it could be called the I(%) SF ...

M

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 4:39 AM
To: discuss at 1net.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Internet Social Forum

Dear people,

Below is an excellent response from Jeremy Malcolm (Best Bits, EFF) regarding the proposal to create a "world social forum" of the Internet.
I am really puzzled: the call from JNC to join ISF is for governments to occupy the Internet??

fraternal regards

--c.a.

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http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/who-are-the-just-net-coalition-and-what-can-we-expect-from-the-internet-social-forum

Who are the Just Net Coalition and what can we expect from the Internet Social Forum?

Jeremy Malcolm

Date: 23/1/2015 3:52 pm

Today, the Just Net Coalition (JNC) [1] has broadcast (on seven mailing lists alone that I subscribe to) its plans for an Internet Social Forum, modeled on the World Social Forum, the well-known anti-globalisation summit. Just as the World Social Forum is held in opposition to the annual Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), so the Internet Social Forum is framed as an alternative to the NETmundial Initiative [2], which JNC describes (inaccurately) as a project of the WEF.

Before saying anything more, I should clarify that I too have been critical [3] of the NETmundial Initiative, I too believe that the Internet governance status quo is overdue for reform [4], I also share concerns about a concentration of market power [5] in the hands of US-based Internet companies, and I do believe that governments have an important role to play [6] in future Internet governance arrangements.
However, I won't be supporting the Internet Social Forum, because the Just Net Coalition's objectives are misguided, and its mode of engagement with the rest of civil society has been profoundly dysfunctional.

History

Who are the Just Net Coalition? I briefly mentioned them in my last post [7], but today's announcement has raised further questions among some of my contacts, and led others to express support the proposal despite not knowing much of the history of those proposing it. This post is to provide some of that necessary background, so that those who choose to endorse the Internet Social Forum will not be taken by surprise when its proposed “People's Internet Manifesto” takes a course with which they may profoundly disagree.

The founding meeting of what became the Just Net Coalition February 2014 was invitation-only, and invitations were issued, in the first instance, only to those known to by sympathetic to the views of the organisers. (A few key individuals excluded from the first round of invitations were, at the urging of the meeting's funder, subsequently approached with late invitations to attend; speaking for myself as one of these, the approach came far too late for me to make the necessary arrangements even to obtain a visa.) Consequently, the content of that meeting's outcome document, the Delhi Declaration for a Just and Equitable Internet [8], was largely predetermined.

The political programme of that document (more on this below) has a long history in a disagreement between a few individuals who were members of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) [9], that has frequently threatened to tear that group apart. On some accounts, indeed, it has already done so – opinions vary on when or whether the IGC “jumped the shark”, but many count it as the day at an IGC meeting in 2013 when a prominent JNC member almost came to blows with a female attendee in an argument, ironically, over his own overbearing behaviour.

The formation of Best Bits [10] in 2012 was (at least on my part, as one of its founders), partly in response to the decline of the IGC and the need for a more action-oriented, globally-inclusive civil society community that could speak on Internet governance and human rights issues, without requiring a full consensus which (for the IGC, at least) had become completely unachievable. Those who now lead JNC, at the time, also held hopes (as did we) that they too could make effective use of Best Bits as a platform for actions and statements on which a broad consensus could be reached, which for a time they did, but what ultimately transpired will be recounted later.

So who are these individuals to whom I am obliquely referring? Although I don't wish to unduly personalise this post, it is relevant that they be identified in order to give context to the following section of this post; and equally, it is quite proper that as spokespersons for the group, they should be held accountable for their public behaviour and statements. (I should also add before going further that I have had a long record of working fruitfully with the individuals named both online and in person, dating back to 2004. I have even retained one of them as a paid consultant on a project I managed.)

Amongst the key individuals who have spoken publicly for JNC and who sit on its steering committee are Parminder Jeet Singh who leads Indian NGO IT for Change, Michael Gurstein who is a Canadian academic and edits the Journal of Community Informatics, Norbert Bollow who is a Swiss systems analyst and FOSS developer, and Richard Hill, former senior staff member of the ITU, who continues to advocate for an expanded role for the ITU on Internet-related public policy issues [11]. Many of the groups shown as supporting the Internet Social Forum in today's announcement are vanity or hobby projects of these founding individuals. For example Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training is Gurstein, GodlyGlobal.org is Bollow, and Association for Proper Internet Governance is Hill.

(You might note that the majority JNC's most vocal key figures, including others not mentioned above such as Louis Pouzin and Jean-Christophe Nothias, are white men from industrialised countries.
Now as a white man myself I'm certainly not one to point fingers at them, but as an organisation that purports to be “globally concerned with…social justice”, as JNC does [12], this lack of diversity perhaps bears mentioning.)

Objectives

The positioning of the Just Net Coalition against multi-stakeholder Internet governance [13], and in favour of a state-centric model, although now quite overt, became evident gradually. The Delhi Declaration covers this obliquely, stating “The right to make Internet-related public policies lies exclusively with those who legitimately and directly represent people” (ie. states). Another coded phrase the JNC has used to call for the centralisation of Internet governance authority in states it its call for “legitimate political authority” [14].

A turning point came at the meeting of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet (WGEC) of the UN Commission for Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) in April 2014. To the surprise of other civil society and technical community delegates at that meeting, Parminder Jeet Singh insisted that support for paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda [15] be retained in working group's report, as the representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran also forcefully argued. Up until then, indeed for an unbroken decade, opposition to paragraph 35 had been a unanimous civil society position.

Paragraph 35 states (my emphasis):

We reaffirm that the management of the Internet encompasses both technical and public policy issues and should involve all stakeholders and relevant intergovernmental and international organizations. In this respect it is recognized that:

a. *Policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the sovereign right of States*. They have rights and responsibilities for international Internet-related public policy issues.

b. The private sector has had, and should continue to have, an important role in the development of the Internet, both in the technical and economic fields.

c. *Civil society has also played an important role on Internet matters, especially *at community level*, and should continue to play such a role.

d. Intergovernmental organizations have had, and should continue to have, a facilitating role in the coordination of Internet-related public policy issues.

e. International organizations have also had and should continue to have an important role in the development of Internet-related technical standards and relevant policies.

In supporting this paragraph that constricts civil society's role in Internet governance, Parminder said:

"I have clarity about what is the role of different stakeholders being quite different to one another and I don't appreciate that non-governmental actors would have the same role in decision-making than governmental actors. That should not be acceptable at a global level."

This, translated into JNC policy and the agenda for its Internet Social Forum, marks a profound shift away from the decentralised and horizontal model of Internet governance that civil society had heretofore supported, towards an hierarchical, state-led model.

For a time, JNC attempted to explain away this change by drawing a straw man distinction between “democratic multi-stakeholderism” (which JNC
supports) and “equal footing multi-stakeholderism” (which it doesn't, mischaracterising it as “governance by self-selected elites”) [16]. But it has since mostly abandoned that pretense and become more overt in promoting an intergovernmental model of Internet governance [17], stating for example in a more recent statement, “We invite all countries to call for a Framework Convention on the Internet and to take up leadership in developing global Internet-related policies,” and averring that “[w]ithout governmental support, it is difficult, perhaps impossible to combat the dominance of global Internet monopolies” [18].

Now, I have argued elsewhere why governments ought not to have a monopoly on the development of Internet-related public policies, but why a model of multi-stakeholderism that includes governments as a key, but not dominant stakeholder can still be counted as democratic [19]. You can accept those arguments or not. If you don't, then you might come down on JNC's side on this issue, and that would be perfectly legitimate.

But that's only half of the problem with JNC. The other half is the toxic relationship that its representatives have cultivated with the rest of civil society.

Relationship with civil society

At the first Best Bits meeting in 2012, much time and many pains were taken to accommodate the demands of those future JNC committee members who attended, and this effort did successfully result in a consensus text to which they were willing to put their names [20]. But from this point, their participation in Best Bits became less productive and more divisive, largely over two issues, which were intertwined.

The first has already been mentioned: the fundamental ideological disagreement over the legitimacy of multi-stakeholder Internet governance, which was accepted by a majority of Best Bits participants, but not by those who were later to split off into JNC. This disagreement took on greater currency when the NETmundial meeting was announced and Best Bits participants began to coordinate the development of several joint inputs [21]. When the future JNC leaders found themselves unable to influence the drafting of these statements to sufficiently accord with their view that governments should have an outsized role in Internet governance, the next best option became to disrupt the development of those statements by hectoring, intimidating and disparaging participants who expressed pro-multistakeholder views.

As good an example as any, and a more recent one, is Gurstein's reaction in November 2014 to the qualified support of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) for the NETmundial Initiative, to which he wrote to Anriette Esterhuysen, APC's Executive Director, “I’m taking from your argument that because the NMI offers some possibility, however remote for the advancement of human rights, you are completely abandoning perhaps irrevocably, the pursuit of social justice.” To anyone who knows of the many years of devotion that Anriette and APC have given in the cause of social justice (and Gurstein certainly does), this is a farcical insult.

The second issue to which the disruptive behaviour of JNC representatives has been directed, which probably arose from the first, were criticisms of various processes that they found themselves unable to influence, including not only those of Best Bits, 1net [22], and the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) [23]. In a rising tide of authoritarian behaviour, those who became JNC's leaders would demand appointment to a position of authority or that these fledgling groups hold elections immediately, insist that other participants in those groups disclose of their sources of funding, and cause a commotion about any strategic discussions that took place off-list or in closed groups.

The response of a relative outsider, Milton Mueller, to Gurstein's demands for inclusion in 1net aptly record the frustration that many others felt:

"Stop pretending that CI [Community Informatics] is some massive grassroots movement related to Internet governance that deserves special representation; and stop pretending that  your frustration with not being selected by CS means that their procedures were illegitimate. You [and] your group are free to contribute position papers to the process and to attend, as far as we know. Why don’t you see how far you can get on persuasion and education, if that’s really your mission?"

To give another example, Bollow, who had earlier demanded a full accounting of the funding sources of Best Bits participants, wrote in November 2013, “I hereby request the members of the BestBits steering committee, the members of the IRP Steering Committee, and the coordinators of the IGC to disclose any direct or indirect financial relationship to any 'capacity building' or similar kind of project where a US government agency is among the funders.”

Then again he wrote in October 2014 to the moderators of a closed strategy list formed for the recent ITU Plenipotentiary meeting – a list that he had not joined – demanding the right to “inspect” its archives on behalf of JNC. As for the CSCG, even after it acceded to JNC's requests and added Bollow as a representative, JNC betrayed that trust by publishing an account of its private deliberations which criticised other CSCG members [24], falsely stating that they had decided to support the NETmundial Initiative.

Although some of JNC's demands of other civil society groups and networks may have been reasonable in themselves – Best Bits, for example, always intended to hold steering committee elections and did hold them within a year of its formation – these demands were delivered with such hubris and entitlement that the effect has been to isolate JNC from other civil society groups and networks and to sow seeds of discord that will have lasting effects.

Ironically the result has been exactly the opposite of what JNC intended. Discussions have retreated from public, open lists into private, closed lists – or private cc groups that are not list-managed at all – precisely to avoid unproductive exchanges with JNC members.

Even more ironically, JNC does not hold itself to the same standards of transparency and accountability that it demands of others; it has never been publicly disclosed, for example, receiving funding from ThoughtWorks, and even the list of signatories of the Delhi Declaration, which formed the JNC's first membership list, was not made public for months after its supposed founding, even while further statements continued to be issued. Neither does JNC operate an open mailing list, despite vociferous demands that other civil society networks, such as Best Bits, should do so.

It might be countered that as pernicious as the behaviour of key JNC members may have been, they are only individuals, and this should not be attributed to the organisation as a whole. Whilst none of the other JNC members has ever “broken ranks” and spoken up against even the founders, this may not be because they are condoning their behaviour, but because they are unaware of it, since it takes place on other civil society mailing lists. Might a change of leadership of JNC be all that is required? This is hard to say, and at present a moot question since no such change is on the horizon.

Conclusion

What, then, can we expect from JNC's Internet Social Forum? Sadly, we can expect that any participants who support a distributed, multi-stakeholder model for Internet governance will be required to check those convictions at the door, and to embrace instead a UN-based model that places governments firmly in control of Internet public policy development. We can expect those who deviate from this line to be interrogated mercilessly, and accused of being props for neoliberal hegemony and corporate domination. May JNC's “take no prisoners”
approach serve them well.

This is a shame, because a well-reasoned leftist critique of Internet governance arrangements and reforms that directs its ire at powerful incumbents, rather than at those who seek to forge a middle path of inclusive multi-stakeholder governance, would actually be very valuable.
To date, JNC has exhibited no desire to provide such a sober, productive critique, instead preferring to focus its destructive anger on easier, weaker targets – its own civil society colleagues.

-----------------------------

Notes:

[1] http://justnetcoalition.org

[2] https://www.netmundial.org

[3]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-initiative-takes-a-top-down-approach-to-implementing-the-netmundial-principles

[4]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-2014-submission-on-evolution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem

[5]
http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/digital-consumers-breaking-through-the-cloud

[6]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/three-false-assumptions-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-1

[7]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/civil-society-talks-tough-to-the-netmundial-initiative-but-holds-back-on-a-boycott

[8] http://justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration

[9] http://igcaucus.org

[10] http://bestbits.net

[11]
http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/roadmaps-for-further-evolution-of-internet-governance/65

[12]
http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/Delhi_Declaration_leaflet_0.pdf

[13]
http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein

[14] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf

[15] http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html

[16] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/ITU_PP_2014_Stmt2.pdf

[17]
http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein

[18] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf

[19]
http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/a-civil-society-agenda-for-internet-governance-in-2013-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-3

[20] http://bestbits.net/statement

[21] http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles,
http://bestbits.net/netmundial-roadmap, and http://bestbits.net/netmundial-icann

[22] http://1net.org/

[23] http://lists.bestbits.net/info/cs-coord

[24] http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan

====

On 01/22/2015 11:47 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum – With a call 
> to occupy the Internet
> 
> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
> 
> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has 
> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate 
> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration 
> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is 
> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing 
> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and 
> for socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
> 
> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the 
> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on 
> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and 
> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet 
> Social Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those 
> who believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public 
> interest; a direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 
> 2001 as a counter initiative to the WEF.
> 
> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and 
> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that 
> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how 
> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory 
> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in 
> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is 
> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
> 
> “While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the 
> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives 
> should not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to 
> the privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider 
> public interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We 
> are organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices 
> can't be ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, 
> Co-Convenor of the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups 
> involved in the initiative.
> 
> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as 
> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be 
> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. 
> It will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its 
> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information, 
> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world 
> community to generate and share.
> 
> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna 
> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop 
> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving 
> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from 
> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups, 
> democracy movements and social justice activists.
> 
> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World 
> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in 
> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a 
> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 
> 2005, the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a 
> paradigm shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society 
> and technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there 
> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative 
> on governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour 
> of private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net 
> Mundial Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining 
> primarily a people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil 
> society's engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
> 
> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing 
> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the 
> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all 
> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing 
> a People's Internet Manifesto.
> 
> Just Net Coalition, Global
> P2P Foundation, Global
> Transnational Institute, Global
> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional Agencia 
> Latinoamericana de Información, Regional Alternative Informatics 
> Association, Turkey Knowledge Commons, India Open-Root/EUROLINC, 
> France SLFC.in, India CODE-IP Trust, Kenya GodlyGlobal.org, 
> Switzerland Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and 
> Training, Canada IT for Change, India Association for Proper Internet 
> Governance, Switzerland Computer Professionals Union, Philippines Free 
> Press, USA Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, 
> Philippines Other News, Italy Free Software Movement of India 
> Global_Geneva, Switzerland Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), 
> Italy All India Peoples Science Network, India Institute for Local 
> Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
> 
> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further 
> information or clarification.
> 
> Or the following regional contacts:
> 
> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> 
> 
> This press release is also available online, e.g. at 
> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
> 
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From nb at bollow.ch  Fri Jan 23 08:57:22 2015
From: nb at bollow.ch (Norbert Bollow)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:57:22 +0100
Subject: [governance] Internet Social Forum
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:32:42 -0200
"Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Below is an excellent response from Jeremy Malcolm (Best Bits, EFF)
> regarding the proposal to create a "world social forum" of the
> Internet. I am really puzzled: the call from JNC to join ISF is for
> governments to occupy the Internet??

I'm not going to spend time at this point on responding to Jeremy's
various insinuations and distortions of the facts. I do admit however
that his current response is more excellent than his initial response
to http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan right here on
this list which in his own words essentially consisted of accusing me of
being "a dick".

But to answer your question:

1. Of course the "call to occupy the Internet" is not directed to
governments. That should be totally clear from the text that we have
published. We are at this point not in any way formally linked to the
occupy movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement but we use
the term "occupy" to broadly align the Internet Social Forum initiative
with that kind of protest viewpoint.

2. Did anyone seriously think that when JNC decided that we would not
participate in the "NETmundial initiative" which was originally
single-handedly led by WEF and then led jointly by WEF, ICANN and
CGI.br (while there appears to be strong evidence of WEF still being
the leading partner among the three), that that would mean that we
would want to remove ourselves entirely from an important part of the
discourse about the future of the Internet??? That is what it would
have meant to disassociate ourselves from what was happening without
seeking to create an alternative to that "NETmundial initiative" in
which we had decided not to participate!

Greetings,
Norbert
co-convenor, Just Net Coalition
http://JustNetCoalition.org

> ====
> 
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/who-are-the-just-net-coalition-and-what-can-we-expect-from-the-internet-social-forum
> 
> Who are the Just Net Coalition and what can we expect from the
> Internet Social Forum?
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm
> 
> Date: 23/1/2015 3:52 pm
> 
> Today, the Just Net Coalition (JNC) [1] has broadcast (on seven
> mailing lists alone that I subscribe to) its plans for an Internet
> Social Forum, modeled on the World Social Forum, the well-known
> anti-globalisation summit. Just as the World Social Forum is held in
> opposition to the annual Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum
> (WEF), so the Internet Social Forum is framed as an alternative to
> the NETmundial Initiative [2], which JNC describes (inaccurately) as
> a project of the WEF.
> 
> Before saying anything more, I should clarify that I too have been
> critical [3] of the NETmundial Initiative, I too believe that the
> Internet governance status quo is overdue for reform [4], I also share
> concerns about a concentration of market power [5] in the hands of
> US-based Internet companies, and I do believe that governments have an
> important role to play [6] in future Internet governance arrangements.
> However, I won't be supporting the Internet Social Forum, because the
> Just Net Coalition's objectives are misguided, and its mode of
> engagement with the rest of civil society has been profoundly
> dysfunctional.
> 
> History
> 
> Who are the Just Net Coalition? I briefly mentioned them in my last
> post [7], but today's announcement has raised further questions among
> some of my contacts, and led others to express support the proposal
> despite not knowing much of the history of those proposing it. This
> post is to provide some of that necessary background, so that those
> who choose to endorse the Internet Social Forum will not be taken by
> surprise when its proposed “People's Internet Manifesto” takes a
> course with which they may profoundly disagree.
> 
> The founding meeting of what became the Just Net Coalition February
> 2014 was invitation-only, and invitations were issued, in the first
> instance, only to those known to by sympathetic to the views of the
> organisers. (A few key individuals excluded from the first round of
> invitations were, at the urging of the meeting's funder, subsequently
> approached with late invitations to attend; speaking for myself as
> one of these, the approach came far too late for me to make the
> necessary arrangements even to obtain a visa.) Consequently, the
> content of that meeting's outcome document, the Delhi Declaration for
> a Just and Equitable Internet [8], was largely predetermined.
> 
> The political programme of that document (more on this below) has a
> long history in a disagreement between a few individuals who were
> members of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) [9],
> that has frequently threatened to tear that group apart. On some
> accounts, indeed, it has already done so – opinions vary on when or
> whether the IGC “jumped the shark”, but many count it as the day at
> an IGC meeting in 2013 when a prominent JNC member almost came to
> blows with a female attendee in an argument, ironically, over his own
> overbearing behaviour.
> 
> The formation of Best Bits [10] in 2012 was (at least on my part, as
> one of its founders), partly in response to the decline of the IGC
> and the need for a more action-oriented, globally-inclusive civil
> society community that could speak on Internet governance and human
> rights issues, without requiring a full consensus which (for the IGC,
> at least) had become completely unachievable. Those who now lead JNC,
> at the time, also held hopes (as did we) that they too could make
> effective use of Best Bits as a platform for actions and statements
> on which a broad consensus could be reached, which for a time they
> did, but what ultimately transpired will be recounted later.
> 
> So who are these individuals to whom I am obliquely referring?
> Although I don't wish to unduly personalise this post, it is relevant
> that they be identified in order to give context to the following
> section of this post; and equally, it is quite proper that as
> spokespersons for the group, they should be held accountable for
> their public behaviour and statements. (I should also add before
> going further that I have had a long record of working fruitfully
> with the individuals named both online and in person, dating back to
> 2004. I have even retained one of them as a paid consultant on a
> project I managed.)
> 
> Amongst the key individuals who have spoken publicly for JNC and who
> sit on its steering committee are Parminder Jeet Singh who leads
> Indian NGO IT for Change, Michael Gurstein who is a Canadian academic
> and edits the Journal of Community Informatics, Norbert Bollow who is
> a Swiss systems analyst and FOSS developer, and Richard Hill, former
> senior staff member of the ITU, who continues to advocate for an
> expanded role for the ITU on Internet-related public policy issues
> [11]. Many of the groups shown as supporting the Internet Social
> Forum in today's announcement are vanity or hobby projects of these
> founding individuals. For example Centre for Community Informatics
> Research, Development and Training is Gurstein, GodlyGlobal.org is
> Bollow, and Association for Proper Internet Governance is Hill.
> 
> (You might note that the majority JNC's most vocal key figures,
> including others not mentioned above such as Louis Pouzin and
> Jean-Christophe Nothias, are white men from industrialised countries.
> Now as a white man myself I'm certainly not one to point fingers at
> them, but as an organisation that purports to be “globally concerned
> with…social justice”, as JNC does [12], this lack of diversity perhaps
> bears mentioning.)
> 
> Objectives
> 
> The positioning of the Just Net Coalition against multi-stakeholder
> Internet governance [13], and in favour of a state-centric model,
> although now quite overt, became evident gradually. The Delhi
> Declaration covers this obliquely, stating “The right to make
> Internet-related public policies lies exclusively with those who
> legitimately and directly represent people” (ie. states). Another
> coded phrase the JNC has used to call for the centralisation of
> Internet governance authority in states it its call for “legitimate
> political authority” [14].
> 
> A turning point came at the meeting of the Working Group on Enhanced
> Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet (WGEC)
> of the UN Commission for Science and Technology for Development
> (CSTD) in April 2014. To the surprise of other civil society and
> technical community delegates at that meeting, Parminder Jeet Singh
> insisted that support for paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda [15] be
> retained in working group's report, as the representatives from Saudi
> Arabia and Iran also forcefully argued. Up until then, indeed for an
> unbroken decade, opposition to paragraph 35 had been a unanimous
> civil society position.
> 
> Paragraph 35 states (my emphasis):
> 
> We reaffirm that the management of the Internet encompasses both
> technical and public policy issues and should involve all stakeholders
> and relevant intergovernmental and international organizations. In
> this respect it is recognized that:
> 
> a. *Policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the
> sovereign right of States*. They have rights and responsibilities for
> international Internet-related public policy issues.
> 
> b. The private sector has had, and should continue to have, an
> important role in the development of the Internet, both in the
> technical and economic fields.
> 
> c. *Civil society has also played an important role on Internet
> matters, especially *at community level*, and should continue to play
> such a role.
> 
> d. Intergovernmental organizations have had, and should continue to
> have, a facilitating role in the coordination of Internet-related
> public policy issues.
> 
> e. International organizations have also had and should continue to
> have an important role in the development of Internet-related
> technical standards and relevant policies.
> 
> In supporting this paragraph that constricts civil society's role in
> Internet governance, Parminder said:
> 
> "I have clarity about what is the role of different stakeholders being
> quite different to one another and I don't appreciate that
> non-governmental actors would have the same role in decision-making
> than governmental actors. That should not be acceptable at a global
> level."
> 
> This, translated into JNC policy and the agenda for its Internet
> Social Forum, marks a profound shift away from the decentralised and
> horizontal model of Internet governance that civil society had
> heretofore supported, towards an hierarchical, state-led model.
> 
> For a time, JNC attempted to explain away this change by drawing a
> straw man distinction between “democratic
> multi-stakeholderism” (which JNC supports) and “equal footing
> multi-stakeholderism” (which it doesn't, mischaracterising it as
> “governance by self-selected elites”) [16]. But it has since mostly
> abandoned that pretense and become more overt in promoting an
> intergovernmental model of Internet governance [17], stating for
> example in a more recent statement, “We invite all countries to call
> for a Framework Convention on the Internet and to take up leadership
> in developing global Internet-related policies,” and averring that
> “[w]ithout governmental support, it is difficult, perhaps impossible
> to combat the dominance of global Internet monopolies” [18].
> 
> Now, I have argued elsewhere why governments ought not to have a
> monopoly on the development of Internet-related public policies, but
> why a model of multi-stakeholderism that includes governments as a
> key, but not dominant stakeholder can still be counted as democratic
> [19]. You can accept those arguments or not. If you don't, then you
> might come down on JNC's side on this issue, and that would be
> perfectly legitimate.
> 
> But that's only half of the problem with JNC. The other half is the
> toxic relationship that its representatives have cultivated with the
> rest of civil society.
> 
> Relationship with civil society
> 
> At the first Best Bits meeting in 2012, much time and many pains were
> taken to accommodate the demands of those future JNC committee members
> who attended, and this effort did successfully result in a consensus
> text to which they were willing to put their names [20]. But from this
> point, their participation in Best Bits became less productive and
> more divisive, largely over two issues, which were intertwined.
> 
> The first has already been mentioned: the fundamental ideological
> disagreement over the legitimacy of multi-stakeholder Internet
> governance, which was accepted by a majority of Best Bits
> participants, but not by those who were later to split off into JNC.
> This disagreement took on greater currency when the NETmundial
> meeting was announced and Best Bits participants began to coordinate
> the development of several joint inputs [21]. When the future JNC
> leaders found themselves unable to influence the drafting of these
> statements to sufficiently accord with their view that governments
> should have an outsized role in Internet governance, the next best
> option became to disrupt the development of those statements by
> hectoring, intimidating and disparaging participants who expressed
> pro-multistakeholder views.
> 
> As good an example as any, and a more recent one, is Gurstein's
> reaction in November 2014 to the qualified support of the Association
> for Progressive Communications (APC) for the NETmundial Initiative,
> to which he wrote to Anriette Esterhuysen, APC's Executive Director,
> “I’m taking from your argument that because the NMI offers some
> possibility, however remote for the advancement of human rights, you
> are completely abandoning perhaps irrevocably, the pursuit of social
> justice.” To anyone who knows of the many years of devotion that
> Anriette and APC have given in the cause of social justice (and
> Gurstein certainly does), this is a farcical insult.
> 
> The second issue to which the disruptive behaviour of JNC
> representatives has been directed, which probably arose from the
> first, were criticisms of various processes that they found
> themselves unable to influence, including not only those of Best
> Bits, 1net [22], and the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)
> [23]. In a rising tide of authoritarian behaviour, those who became
> JNC's leaders would demand appointment to a position of authority or
> that these fledgling groups hold elections immediately, insist that
> other participants in those groups disclose of their sources of
> funding, and cause a commotion about any strategic discussions that
> took place off-list or in closed groups.
> 
> The response of a relative outsider, Milton Mueller, to Gurstein's
> demands for inclusion in 1net aptly record the frustration that many
> others felt:
> 
> "Stop pretending that CI [Community Informatics] is some massive
> grassroots movement related to Internet governance that deserves
> special representation; and stop pretending that  your frustration
> with not being selected by CS means that their procedures were
> illegitimate. You [and] your group are free to contribute position
> papers to the process and to attend, as far as we know. Why don’t you
> see how far you can get on persuasion and education, if that’s really
> your mission?"
> 
> To give another example, Bollow, who had earlier demanded a full
> accounting of the funding sources of Best Bits participants, wrote in
> November 2013, “I hereby request the members of the BestBits steering
> committee, the members of the IRP Steering Committee, and the
> coordinators of the IGC to disclose any direct or indirect financial
> relationship to any 'capacity building' or similar kind of project
> where a US government agency is among the funders.”
> 
> Then again he wrote in October 2014 to the moderators of a closed
> strategy list formed for the recent ITU Plenipotentiary meeting – a
> list that he had not joined – demanding the right to “inspect” its
> archives on behalf of JNC. As for the CSCG, even after it acceded to
> JNC's requests and added Bollow as a representative, JNC betrayed
> that trust by publishing an account of its private deliberations
> which criticised other CSCG members [24], falsely stating that they
> had decided to support the NETmundial Initiative.
> 
> Although some of JNC's demands of other civil society groups and
> networks may have been reasonable in themselves – Best Bits, for
> example, always intended to hold steering committee elections and did
> hold them within a year of its formation – these demands were
> delivered with such hubris and entitlement that the effect has been
> to isolate JNC from other civil society groups and networks and to
> sow seeds of discord that will have lasting effects.
> 
> Ironically the result has been exactly the opposite of what JNC
> intended. Discussions have retreated from public, open lists into
> private, closed lists – or private cc groups that are not list-managed
> at all – precisely to avoid unproductive exchanges with JNC members.
> 
> Even more ironically, JNC does not hold itself to the same standards
> of transparency and accountability that it demands of others; it has
> never been publicly disclosed, for example, receiving funding from
> ThoughtWorks, and even the list of signatories of the Delhi
> Declaration, which formed the JNC's first membership list, was not
> made public for months after its supposed founding, even while
> further statements continued to be issued. Neither does JNC operate
> an open mailing list, despite vociferous demands that other civil
> society networks, such as Best Bits, should do so.
> 
> It might be countered that as pernicious as the behaviour of key JNC
> members may have been, they are only individuals, and this should not
> be attributed to the organisation as a whole. Whilst none of the
> other JNC members has ever “broken ranks” and spoken up against even
> the founders, this may not be because they are condoning their
> behaviour, but because they are unaware of it, since it takes place
> on other civil society mailing lists. Might a change of leadership of
> JNC be all that is required? This is hard to say, and at present a
> moot question since no such change is on the horizon.
> 
> Conclusion
> 
> What, then, can we expect from JNC's Internet Social Forum? Sadly, we
> can expect that any participants who support a distributed,
> multi-stakeholder model for Internet governance will be required to
> check those convictions at the door, and to embrace instead a UN-based
> model that places governments firmly in control of Internet public
> policy development. We can expect those who deviate from this line to
> be interrogated mercilessly, and accused of being props for neoliberal
> hegemony and corporate domination. May JNC's “take no prisoners”
> approach serve them well.
> 
> This is a shame, because a well-reasoned leftist critique of Internet
> governance arrangements and reforms that directs its ire at powerful
> incumbents, rather than at those who seek to forge a middle path of
> inclusive multi-stakeholder governance, would actually be very
> valuable. To date, JNC has exhibited no desire to provide such a
> sober, productive critique, instead preferring to focus its
> destructive anger on easier, weaker targets – its own civil society
> colleagues.
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Notes:
> 
> [1] http://justnetcoalition.org
> 
> [2] https://www.netmundial.org
> 
> [3]
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-initiative-takes-a-top-down-approach-to-implementing-the-netmundial-principles
> 
> [4]
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-2014-submission-on-evolution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem
> 
> [5]
> http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/digital-consumers-breaking-through-the-cloud
> 
> [6]
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/three-false-assumptions-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-1
> 
> [7]
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/civil-society-talks-tough-to-the-netmundial-initiative-but-holds-back-on-a-boycott
> 
> [8] http://justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration
> 
> [9] http://igcaucus.org
> 
> [10] http://bestbits.net
> 
> [11]
> http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/roadmaps-for-further-evolution-of-internet-governance/65
> 
> [12]
> http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/Delhi_Declaration_leaflet_0.pdf
> 
> [13]
> http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein
> 
> [14] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf
> 
> [15] http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html
> 
> [16]
> http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/ITU_PP_2014_Stmt2.pdf
> 
> [17]
> http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein
> 
> [18] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf
> 
> [19]
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/a-civil-society-agenda-for-internet-governance-in-2013-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-3
> 
> [20] http://bestbits.net/statement
> 
> [21] http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles,
> http://bestbits.net/netmundial-roadmap, and
> http://bestbits.net/netmundial-icann
> 
> [22] http://1net.org/
> 
> [23] http://lists.bestbits.net/info/cs-coord
> 
> [24] http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan
> 
> ====
> 
> On 01/22/2015 11:36 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
> > – With a call to occupy the Internet
> > 
> > PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
> > 
> > A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
> > announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and
> > articulate bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking
> > inspiration from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call,
> > 'Another World is possible', the group seeks to draw urgent
> > attention to the increasing centralization of the Internet for
> > extraction of monopoly rents and for socio-political control,
> > asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
> > 
> > The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to
> > the recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial
> > Initiative' on global Internet governance. While the World Economic
> > Forum (WEF) and the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites,
> > the Internet Social Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up
> > space for all those who believe that the global Internet must
> > evolve in the public interest; a direct parallel to the launch of
> > the World Social Forum in 2001 as a counter initiative to the WEF.
> > 
> > The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
> > social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
> > challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
> > the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
> > process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
> > Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
> > planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
> > 
> > “While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
> > future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives
> > should not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to
> > the privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider
> > public interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet.
> > We are organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their
> > voices can't be ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert
> > Bollow, Co-Convenor of the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the
> > groups involved in the initiative.
> > 
> > The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended
> > as a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
> > underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social
> > justice. It will stand for participatory policy making and promote
> > community media. It will seek an Internet that is truly
> > decentralized in its architecture and based on people's full rights
> > to data, information, knowledge and other 'commons' that the
> > Internet has enabled the world community to generate and share.
> > 
> > Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna
> > Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to
> > develop a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process
> > involving all concerned social groups and movements, in different
> > areas, from techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform
> > groups, democracy movements and social justice activists.
> > 
> > This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
> > Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
> > December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be
> > a critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and
> > 2005, the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a
> > paradigm shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil
> > society and technical groups as well as of business. However,
> > currently, there seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this
> > UN-led initiative on governance issues of the information society
> > and Internet in favour of private, big-business-dominated
> > initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative. The Internet
> > Social Forum, while remaining primarily a people's forum, will also
> > seek to channel global civil society's engagement towards the WSIS
> > +10 review.
> > 
> > The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
> > the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
> > immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from
> > all over the world to join this initiative, and participate in
> > developing a People's Internet Manifesto.
> > 
> > Just Net Coalition, Global
> > P2P Foundation, Global
> > Transnational Institute, Global
> > Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional
> > (Latin America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
> > Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
> > Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
> > Knowledge Commons, India
> > Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
> > SLFC.in, India
> > CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
> > GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
> > Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
> > Canada IT for Change, India
> > Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
> > Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
> > Free Press, USA
> > Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
> > Other News, Italy
> > Free Software Movement of India
> > Global_Geneva, Switzerland
> > Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
> > All India Peoples Science Network, India
> > Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks,
> > USA
> > 
> > Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
> > information or clarification.
> > 
> > Or the following regional contacts:
> > 
> > Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > 
> > 
> > This press release is also available online, e.g. at
> > http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
> > 


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From dogwallah at gmail.com  Fri Jan 23 09:21:54 2015
From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:21:54 -0600
Subject: [governance] FW: [discuss] Internet Social Forum
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Dear MG,

Your post just provided further proof everything that Jeremy wrote was true.



On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:31 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
wrote:

> FWIW... Flouting normal academic/journalistic etiquette Jeremy omitted to
> reference my comments quoted in his blog which for anyone who hasn't been
> following can be found with context and elaboration in my blog
> http://gurstein.wordpress.com (key word searches on "multi-stakeholder"
> and "civil society" should turn these up--and with a bit of digging one
> might find even more fearsomely critical comments including about CS's
> unholy partnerships with and financial support from the global Internet
> elites.
>
> BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing the invitation from Jeremy and the
> other NMI-nik's inviting global Civil Society to their next 1% err WEF,
> ICANN, cgi Internet Governance lovefest -- perhaps it could be called the
> I(%) SF ...
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On
> Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 4:39 AM
> To: discuss at 1net.org
> Subject: Re: [discuss] Internet Social Forum
>
> Dear people,
>
> Below is an excellent response from Jeremy Malcolm (Best Bits, EFF)
> regarding the proposal to create a "world social forum" of the Internet.
> I am really puzzled: the call from JNC to join ISF is for governments to
> occupy the Internet??
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
> ====
>
>
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/who-are-the-just-net-coalition-and-what-can-we-expect-from-the-internet-social-forum
>
> Who are the Just Net Coalition and what can we expect from the Internet
> Social Forum?
>
> Jeremy Malcolm
>
> Date: 23/1/2015 3:52 pm
>
> Today, the Just Net Coalition (JNC) [1] has broadcast (on seven mailing
> lists alone that I subscribe to) its plans for an Internet Social Forum,
> modeled on the World Social Forum, the well-known anti-globalisation
> summit. Just as the World Social Forum is held in opposition to the annual
> Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), so the Internet Social
> Forum is framed as an alternative to the NETmundial Initiative [2], which
> JNC describes (inaccurately) as a project of the WEF.
>
> Before saying anything more, I should clarify that I too have been
> critical [3] of the NETmundial Initiative, I too believe that the Internet
> governance status quo is overdue for reform [4], I also share concerns
> about a concentration of market power [5] in the hands of US-based Internet
> companies, and I do believe that governments have an important role to play
> [6] in future Internet governance arrangements.
> However, I won't be supporting the Internet Social Forum, because the Just
> Net Coalition's objectives are misguided, and its mode of engagement with
> the rest of civil society has been profoundly dysfunctional.
>
> History
>
> Who are the Just Net Coalition? I briefly mentioned them in my last post
> [7], but today's announcement has raised further questions among some of my
> contacts, and led others to express support the proposal despite not
> knowing much of the history of those proposing it. This post is to provide
> some of that necessary background, so that those who choose to endorse the
> Internet Social Forum will not be taken by surprise when its proposed
> “People's Internet Manifesto” takes a course with which they may profoundly
> disagree.
>
> The founding meeting of what became the Just Net Coalition February 2014
> was invitation-only, and invitations were issued, in the first instance,
> only to those known to by sympathetic to the views of the organisers. (A
> few key individuals excluded from the first round of invitations were, at
> the urging of the meeting's funder, subsequently approached with late
> invitations to attend; speaking for myself as one of these, the approach
> came far too late for me to make the necessary arrangements even to obtain
> a visa.) Consequently, the content of that meeting's outcome document, the
> Delhi Declaration for a Just and Equitable Internet [8], was largely
> predetermined.
>
> The political programme of that document (more on this below) has a long
> history in a disagreement between a few individuals who were members of the
> Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) [9], that has frequently
> threatened to tear that group apart. On some accounts, indeed, it has
> already done so – opinions vary on when or whether the IGC “jumped the
> shark”, but many count it as the day at an IGC meeting in 2013 when a
> prominent JNC member almost came to blows with a female attendee in an
> argument, ironically, over his own overbearing behaviour.
>
> The formation of Best Bits [10] in 2012 was (at least on my part, as one
> of its founders), partly in response to the decline of the IGC and the need
> for a more action-oriented, globally-inclusive civil society community that
> could speak on Internet governance and human rights issues, without
> requiring a full consensus which (for the IGC, at least) had become
> completely unachievable. Those who now lead JNC, at the time, also held
> hopes (as did we) that they too could make effective use of Best Bits as a
> platform for actions and statements on which a broad consensus could be
> reached, which for a time they did, but what ultimately transpired will be
> recounted later.
>
> So who are these individuals to whom I am obliquely referring? Although I
> don't wish to unduly personalise this post, it is relevant that they be
> identified in order to give context to the following section of this post;
> and equally, it is quite proper that as spokespersons for the group, they
> should be held accountable for their public behaviour and statements. (I
> should also add before going further that I have had a long record of
> working fruitfully with the individuals named both online and in person,
> dating back to 2004. I have even retained one of them as a paid consultant
> on a project I managed.)
>
> Amongst the key individuals who have spoken publicly for JNC and who sit
> on its steering committee are Parminder Jeet Singh who leads Indian NGO IT
> for Change, Michael Gurstein who is a Canadian academic and edits the
> Journal of Community Informatics, Norbert Bollow who is a Swiss systems
> analyst and FOSS developer, and Richard Hill, former senior staff member of
> the ITU, who continues to advocate for an expanded role for the ITU on
> Internet-related public policy issues [11]. Many of the groups shown as
> supporting the Internet Social Forum in today's announcement are vanity or
> hobby projects of these founding individuals. For example Centre for
> Community Informatics Research, Development and Training is Gurstein,
> GodlyGlobal.org is Bollow, and Association for Proper Internet Governance
> is Hill.
>
> (You might note that the majority JNC's most vocal key figures, including
> others not mentioned above such as Louis Pouzin and Jean-Christophe
> Nothias, are white men from industrialised countries.
> Now as a white man myself I'm certainly not one to point fingers at them,
> but as an organisation that purports to be “globally concerned with…social
> justice”, as JNC does [12], this lack of diversity perhaps bears
> mentioning.)
>
> Objectives
>
> The positioning of the Just Net Coalition against multi-stakeholder
> Internet governance [13], and in favour of a state-centric model, although
> now quite overt, became evident gradually. The Delhi Declaration covers
> this obliquely, stating “The right to make Internet-related public policies
> lies exclusively with those who legitimately and directly represent people”
> (ie. states). Another coded phrase the JNC has used to call for the
> centralisation of Internet governance authority in states it its call for
> “legitimate political authority” [14].
>
> A turning point came at the meeting of the Working Group on Enhanced
> Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet (WGEC) of
> the UN Commission for Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) in
> April 2014. To the surprise of other civil society and technical community
> delegates at that meeting, Parminder Jeet Singh insisted that support for
> paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda [15] be retained in working group's
> report, as the representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran also forcefully
> argued. Up until then, indeed for an unbroken decade, opposition to
> paragraph 35 had been a unanimous civil society position.
>
> Paragraph 35 states (my emphasis):
>
> We reaffirm that the management of the Internet encompasses both technical
> and public policy issues and should involve all stakeholders and relevant
> intergovernmental and international organizations. In this respect it is
> recognized that:
>
> a. *Policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the
> sovereign right of States*. They have rights and responsibilities for
> international Internet-related public policy issues.
>
> b. The private sector has had, and should continue to have, an important
> role in the development of the Internet, both in the technical and economic
> fields.
>
> c. *Civil society has also played an important role on Internet matters,
> especially *at community level*, and should continue to play such a role.
>
> d. Intergovernmental organizations have had, and should continue to have,
> a facilitating role in the coordination of Internet-related public policy
> issues.
>
> e. International organizations have also had and should continue to have
> an important role in the development of Internet-related technical
> standards and relevant policies.
>
> In supporting this paragraph that constricts civil society's role in
> Internet governance, Parminder said:
>
> "I have clarity about what is the role of different stakeholders being
> quite different to one another and I don't appreciate that non-governmental
> actors would have the same role in decision-making than governmental
> actors. That should not be acceptable at a global level."
>
> This, translated into JNC policy and the agenda for its Internet Social
> Forum, marks a profound shift away from the decentralised and horizontal
> model of Internet governance that civil society had heretofore supported,
> towards an hierarchical, state-led model.
>
> For a time, JNC attempted to explain away this change by drawing a straw
> man distinction between “democratic multi-stakeholderism” (which JNC
> supports) and “equal footing multi-stakeholderism” (which it doesn't,
> mischaracterising it as “governance by self-selected elites”) [16]. But it
> has since mostly abandoned that pretense and become more overt in promoting
> an intergovernmental model of Internet governance [17], stating for example
> in a more recent statement, “We invite all countries to call for a
> Framework Convention on the Internet and to take up leadership in
> developing global Internet-related policies,” and averring that “[w]ithout
> governmental support, it is difficult, perhaps impossible to combat the
> dominance of global Internet monopolies” [18].
>
> Now, I have argued elsewhere why governments ought not to have a monopoly
> on the development of Internet-related public policies, but why a model of
> multi-stakeholderism that includes governments as a key, but not dominant
> stakeholder can still be counted as democratic [19]. You can accept those
> arguments or not. If you don't, then you might come down on JNC's side on
> this issue, and that would be perfectly legitimate.
>
> But that's only half of the problem with JNC. The other half is the toxic
> relationship that its representatives have cultivated with the rest of
> civil society.
>
> Relationship with civil society
>
> At the first Best Bits meeting in 2012, much time and many pains were
> taken to accommodate the demands of those future JNC committee members who
> attended, and this effort did successfully result in a consensus text to
> which they were willing to put their names [20]. But from this point, their
> participation in Best Bits became less productive and more divisive,
> largely over two issues, which were intertwined.
>
> The first has already been mentioned: the fundamental ideological
> disagreement over the legitimacy of multi-stakeholder Internet governance,
> which was accepted by a majority of Best Bits participants, but not by
> those who were later to split off into JNC. This disagreement took on
> greater currency when the NETmundial meeting was announced and Best Bits
> participants began to coordinate the development of several joint inputs
> [21]. When the future JNC leaders found themselves unable to influence the
> drafting of these statements to sufficiently accord with their view that
> governments should have an outsized role in Internet governance, the next
> best option became to disrupt the development of those statements by
> hectoring, intimidating and disparaging participants who expressed
> pro-multistakeholder views.
>
> As good an example as any, and a more recent one, is Gurstein's reaction
> in November 2014 to the qualified support of the Association for
> Progressive Communications (APC) for the NETmundial Initiative, to which he
> wrote to Anriette Esterhuysen, APC's Executive Director, “I’m taking from
> your argument that because the NMI offers some possibility, however remote
> for the advancement of human rights, you are completely abandoning perhaps
> irrevocably, the pursuit of social justice.” To anyone who knows of the
> many years of devotion that Anriette and APC have given in the cause of
> social justice (and Gurstein certainly does), this is a farcical insult.
>
> The second issue to which the disruptive behaviour of JNC representatives
> has been directed, which probably arose from the first, were criticisms of
> various processes that they found themselves unable to influence, including
> not only those of Best Bits, 1net [22], and the Civil Society Coordination
> Group (CSCG) [23]. In a rising tide of authoritarian behaviour, those who
> became JNC's leaders would demand appointment to a position of authority or
> that these fledgling groups hold elections immediately, insist that other
> participants in those groups disclose of their sources of funding, and
> cause a commotion about any strategic discussions that took place off-list
> or in closed groups.
>
> The response of a relative outsider, Milton Mueller, to Gurstein's demands
> for inclusion in 1net aptly record the frustration that many others felt:
>
> "Stop pretending that CI [Community Informatics] is some massive
> grassroots movement related to Internet governance that deserves special
> representation; and stop pretending that  your frustration with not being
> selected by CS means that their procedures were illegitimate. You [and]
> your group are free to contribute position papers to the process and to
> attend, as far as we know. Why don’t you see how far you can get on
> persuasion and education, if that’s really your mission?"
>
> To give another example, Bollow, who had earlier demanded a full
> accounting of the funding sources of Best Bits participants, wrote in
> November 2013, “I hereby request the members of the BestBits steering
> committee, the members of the IRP Steering Committee, and the coordinators
> of the IGC to disclose any direct or indirect financial relationship to any
> 'capacity building' or similar kind of project where a US government agency
> is among the funders.”
>
> Then again he wrote in October 2014 to the moderators of a closed strategy
> list formed for the recent ITU Plenipotentiary meeting – a list that he had
> not joined – demanding the right to “inspect” its archives on behalf of
> JNC. As for the CSCG, even after it acceded to JNC's requests and added
> Bollow as a representative, JNC betrayed that trust by publishing an
> account of its private deliberations which criticised other CSCG members
> [24], falsely stating that they had decided to support the NETmundial
> Initiative.
>
> Although some of JNC's demands of other civil society groups and networks
> may have been reasonable in themselves – Best Bits, for example, always
> intended to hold steering committee elections and did hold them within a
> year of its formation – these demands were delivered with such hubris and
> entitlement that the effect has been to isolate JNC from other civil
> society groups and networks and to sow seeds of discord that will have
> lasting effects.
>
> Ironically the result has been exactly the opposite of what JNC intended.
> Discussions have retreated from public, open lists into private, closed
> lists – or private cc groups that are not list-managed at all – precisely
> to avoid unproductive exchanges with JNC members.
>
> Even more ironically, JNC does not hold itself to the same standards of
> transparency and accountability that it demands of others; it has never
> been publicly disclosed, for example, receiving funding from ThoughtWorks,
> and even the list of signatories of the Delhi Declaration, which formed the
> JNC's first membership list, was not made public for months after its
> supposed founding, even while further statements continued to be issued.
> Neither does JNC operate an open mailing list, despite vociferous demands
> that other civil society networks, such as Best Bits, should do so.
>
> It might be countered that as pernicious as the behaviour of key JNC
> members may have been, they are only individuals, and this should not be
> attributed to the organisation as a whole. Whilst none of the other JNC
> members has ever “broken ranks” and spoken up against even the founders,
> this may not be because they are condoning their behaviour, but because
> they are unaware of it, since it takes place on other civil society mailing
> lists. Might a change of leadership of JNC be all that is required? This is
> hard to say, and at present a moot question since no such change is on the
> horizon.
>
> Conclusion
>
> What, then, can we expect from JNC's Internet Social Forum? Sadly, we can
> expect that any participants who support a distributed, multi-stakeholder
> model for Internet governance will be required to check those convictions
> at the door, and to embrace instead a UN-based model that places
> governments firmly in control of Internet public policy development. We can
> expect those who deviate from this line to be interrogated mercilessly, and
> accused of being props for neoliberal hegemony and corporate domination.
> May JNC's “take no prisoners”
> approach serve them well.
>
> This is a shame, because a well-reasoned leftist critique of Internet
> governance arrangements and reforms that directs its ire at powerful
> incumbents, rather than at those who seek to forge a middle path of
> inclusive multi-stakeholder governance, would actually be very valuable.
> To date, JNC has exhibited no desire to provide such a sober, productive
> critique, instead preferring to focus its destructive anger on easier,
> weaker targets – its own civil society colleagues.
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Notes:
>
> [1] http://justnetcoalition.org
>
> [2] https://www.netmundial.org
>
> [3]
>
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-initiative-takes-a-top-down-approach-to-implementing-the-netmundial-principles
>
> [4]
>
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-2014-submission-on-evolution-of-the-internet-governance-ecosystem
>
> [5]
>
> http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/insights/digital-consumers-breaking-through-the-cloud
>
> [6]
>
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/three-false-assumptions-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-1
>
> [7]
>
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/civil-society-talks-tough-to-the-netmundial-initiative-but-holds-back-on-a-boycott
>
> [8] http://justnetcoalition.org/delhi-declaration
>
> [9] http://igcaucus.org
>
> [10] http://bestbits.net
>
> [11]
>
> http://content.netmundial.br/contribution/roadmaps-for-further-evolution-of-internet-governance/65
>
> [12]
>
> http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/Delhi_Declaration_leaflet_0.pdf
>
> [13]
>
> http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein
>
> [14] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf
>
> [15] http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html
>
> [16] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/ITU_PP_2014_Stmt2.pdf
>
> [17]
>
> http://blog.justnetcoalition.org/democracy-or-multi-stakeholderism-competing-models-of-governance-by-michael-gurstein
>
> [18] http://justnetcoalition.org/sites/default/files/NewModel_r2.pdf
>
> [19]
>
> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/a-civil-society-agenda-for-internet-governance-in-2013-internet-freedom-in-a-world-of-states-part-3
>
> [20] http://bestbits.net/statement
>
> [21] http://bestbits.net/netmundial-principles,
> http://bestbits.net/netmundial-roadmap, and
> http://bestbits.net/netmundial-icann
>
> [22] http://1net.org/
>
> [23] http://lists.bestbits.net/info/cs-coord
>
> [24] http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan
>
> ====
>
> On 01/22/2015 11:47 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> > Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum – With a call
> > to occupy the Internet
> >
> > PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
> >
> > A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
> > announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
> > bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
> > from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
> > possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
> > centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and
> > for socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is
> possible'!
> >
> > The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
> > recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
> > global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
> > the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet
> > Social Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those
> > who believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public
> > interest; a direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in
> > 2001 as a counter initiative to the WEF.
> >
> > The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
> > social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
> > challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
> > the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
> > process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
> > Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
> > planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
> >
> > “While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
> > future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives
> > should not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to
> > the privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider
> > public interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We
> > are organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices
> > can't be ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow,
> > Co-Convenor of the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups
> > involved in the initiative.
> >
> > The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
> > a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
> > underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice.
> > It will stand for participatory policy making and promote community
> media.
> > It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
> > architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
> > knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
> > community to generate and share.
> >
> > Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna
> > Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
> > a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
> > all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
> > techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
> > democracy movements and social justice activists.
> >
> > This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
> > Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
> > December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
> > critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and
> > 2005, the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a
> > paradigm shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society
> > and technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
> > seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative
> > on governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour
> > of private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net
> > Mundial Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining
> > primarily a people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil
> > society's engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
> >
> > The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
> > the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
> > immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
> > over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing
> > a People's Internet Manifesto.
> >
> > Just Net Coalition, Global
> > P2P Foundation, Global
> > Transnational Institute, Global
> > Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
> > America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional Agencia
> > Latinoamericana de Información, Regional Alternative Informatics
> > Association, Turkey Knowledge Commons, India Open-Root/EUROLINC,
> > France SLFC.in, India CODE-IP Trust, Kenya GodlyGlobal.org,
> > Switzerland Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and
> > Training, Canada IT for Change, India Association for Proper Internet
> > Governance, Switzerland Computer Professionals Union, Philippines Free
> > Press, USA Advocates of Science and Technology for the People,
> > Philippines Other News, Italy Free Software Movement of India
> > Global_Geneva, Switzerland Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network),
> > Italy All India Peoples Science Network, India Institute for Local
> > Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
> >
> > Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
> > information or clarification.
> >
> > Or the following regional contacts:
> >
> > Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> > South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> >
> >
> > This press release is also available online, e.g. at
> > http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > discuss mailing list
> > discuss at 1net.org
> > http://1net-mail.1net.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
>
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From wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de  Fri Jan 23 13:01:49 2015
From: wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Kleinw=E4chter=2C_Wolfgang=22?=)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:01:49 +0100
Subject: AW: [governance] Internet Social Forum
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Hi Parminder,

how the ISF is linked to the IGF?

Wolfgang

 


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Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder
Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum
 
Enclosed Spanish version... parminder


On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
> - With a call to occupy the Internet
>
> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>
> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>
> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
> counter initiative to the WEF.
>
> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>
> "While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
> privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public
> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
> ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
> initiative.
>
> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
> community to generate and share.
>
> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's call for a 'Magna
> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>
> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>
> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
> People's Internet Manifesto.
>
> Just Net Coalition, Global
> P2P Foundation, Global
> Transnational Institute, Global
> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
> Knowledge Commons, India
> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
> SLFC.in, India
> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
> Canada IT for Change, India
> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
> Free Press, USA
> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
> Other News, Italy
> Free Software Movement of India
> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
> All India Peoples Science Network, India
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>
> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
> information or clarification.
>
> Or the following regional contacts:
>
> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
>
> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
>



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From parminder at itforchange.net  Fri Jan 23 18:21:48 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:51:48 +0530
Subject: AW: [governance] Internet Social Forum
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On Friday 23 January 2015 11:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> Hi Parminder,
>
> how the ISF is linked to the IGF?

Hi Wolfgang

One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one. One 
develops people's and civil society's positions on the key issue of the 
global Internet, the other is a place where such positions can enter 
into dialogue with holders of political and economic power - the 
governments and the corporate actors.

Unless now the whole idea and concept of civil society - and along with 
those of people's movements, grassroots, activism, and so on - has been 
fully coopted in some people's mind with that of multistakeholderism 
(whatever one actually means by it, something that has remained 
notoriously unclear), the connection or link that you inquire about is 
extremely clear to me.

Internet is not the first thing for which there has been felt a need for 
'independently' forming a people's conception and set of hopes, 
expectations and demands - away from conclaves of power. There have been 
scores of others, and newer ones continue to arise. Accordingly if 
people's and civil society forums etc have been meaningful and needed in 
these areas, it is incumbent upon *those* who think they are *not 
needed* in the Internet space to explain why it is so, then the other 
way around.

To put is somewhat flippantly, ISF is also a reaction of people who are 
fed up with an ongoing IG charade where for instance Fadi Chehade can 
with a straight face call the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative as the 
'mother of all bottom -up processes' - even jokes require some 
plausibility limits!

To take the example of one of the latest international global forums on 
a key global governance issue, the Lima meeting on climate change, you 
will perhaps know that parallel to it a people's meeting was held. 
Internet and its governance also needs such meetings, that is the simple 
logic of the Internet Social Forum. If you think that in the Internet's 
case, such meetings and forums are not needed, I would of course be 
curious to hear your case.

I am happy to engage further with you on this issue, and answer your 
questions.

Lastly, let me invite you to join the ISF process. We work under the 
World Social Forum (WSF) process and principles - whereby its meetings 
are open to all civil society participants subject to very inimum 
conditions that are listed on their website.

Further, if the discussion is to now turn to the WSF, its meaning, 
relevance, etc, I am as happy to engage with you on that subject.

Regards, parminder

>
> Wolfgang
>
>   
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder
> Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01
> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum
>   
> Enclosed Spanish version... parminder
>
>
> On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
>> - With a call to occupy the Internet
>>
>> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>>
>> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
>> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
>> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
>> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
>> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
>> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
>> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>>
>> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
>> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
>> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
>> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
>> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
>> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
>> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
>> counter initiative to the WEF.
>>
>> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
>> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
>> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
>> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
>> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
>> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
>> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>>
>> "While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
>> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
>> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
>> privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public
>> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
>> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
>> ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
>> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
>> initiative.
>>
>> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
>> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
>> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
>> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
>> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
>> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
>> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
>> community to generate and share.
>>
>> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's call for a 'Magna
>> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
>> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
>> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
>> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
>> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>>
>> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
>> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
>> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
>> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
>> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
>> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
>> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
>> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
>> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
>> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
>> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
>> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
>> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>>
>> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
>> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
>> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
>> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
>> People's Internet Manifesto.
>>
>> Just Net Coalition, Global
>> P2P Foundation, Global
>> Transnational Institute, Global
>> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
>> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
>> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
>> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
>> Knowledge Commons, India
>> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
>> SLFC.in, India
>> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
>> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
>> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
>> Canada IT for Change, India
>> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
>> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
>> Free Press, USA
>> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
>> Other News, Italy
>> Free Software Movement of India
>> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
>> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
>> All India Peoples Science Network, India
>> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>>
>> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
>> information or clarification.
>>
>> Or the following regional contacts:
>>
>> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>
>>
>> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
>> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
>>
>
>


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From salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com  Fri Jan 23 18:43:18 2015
From: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com (Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:43:18 +1200
Subject: [governance] Re: [APAC-Discuss] [PICISOC] Invitation to Internet
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Dear All,

Regrettably the event has passed but certainly other key events to look
forward to is the upcoming APRICOT and APrIGF which will be held in
Fukuoka, Japan and Macau, China respectively.

Sadly there was no recording as you had to be on site but you can follow
the #PTC15 or #IGF

With every best wish,
Sala

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Vish विशारद PYC <virat.surya at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it possible to participate via internet?
>
> On 1/21/15, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro
> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Firstly apologies for the cross posting. I would like to invite you to
> the
> > Pacific Telecommunication Council 15 Conference's Executive Roundtable on
> > Internet Governance which is being held in Coral Room 2 at The Hilton,
> > Hawaiian Village from 4pm till 5pm Honolulu time.
> >
> > You can follow the twitter hashtag #PTC15 #IGF
> >
> > Session Description is as follows:
> >
> > Executive Insight Roundtable 10: Internet Governance
> > In 2005, the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society defined
> > Internet governance as "the development and application by governments,
> the
> > private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared
> > principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that
> > shape the evolution and use of the Internet." The Internet is expanding
> > exponentially. The Internet Governance Forum mandate from the United
> nations
> > ends in 2015. Though there is no sign that the future of the IGF is in
> > danger, so far there is no word from the UN asking for input on the
> renewal
> > of IGF. In early 2014, the U.S. government announced plans to relinquish
> its
> > historic stewardship over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA),
> > which is operated by ICANN, to the global multi-stakeholder Internet
> > community when its contract with ICANN expires in September 2015.Many
> > experts believe this change may set the stage for broader changes in
> other
> > areas of Internet governance, such as intellectual property rights and
> > cybersecurity.
> >
> > Who is responsible for Internet governance among the different
> stakeholder
> > groups? What are issues that may disrupt the roles of existing
> stakeholders?
> > How should consensus on key principles or outcomes be reached for
> solutions
> > that benefit the global Internet rather than special interests? How
> should
> > market-specific challenges or issues that are particular to a local
> > community be approached for the global Internet to continue its
> innovative
> > contributions? These are just some of the challenging questions around
> > Internet Governance that will be discussed in this executive insight
> > roundtable.
> >
> > Moderator:
> > Steven Smith, Associate VP, IT Technology & Deputy CIO, University of
> > Hawaii, USA
> > Panelists:
> > David Conrad, CTO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> > (ICANN)
> > John Curran, President and CEO, American Registry for Internet Numbers
> > (ARIN)
> > Paul Wilson, Director General, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
> > (APNIC)
> > With every best wish,
> > Sala
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
>
>
> --
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>
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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Fri Jan 23 19:22:11 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (JFC Morfin)
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At 00:21 24/01/2015, parminder wrote:
>One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one.

Hi! Parminder,
I have a real difficulty understanding why you civil society activist 
continue using the "multistakeholder" discriminatroy concept and do 
not rally the omnistakeholder non discriminatory vision. Everyone is 
to be accepted as a network co-owner/builder and a co-decision member 
(through the pragmantic mechanisms of influence, synergy and emergence).
jfc


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The last Kieren McCarthy opus…

24/01/2015 05:07
<https://twitter.com/theregister/status/558838370437431296?refsrc=email&s=11>
Hibernating NetMundial continues to rattle internet governance world
reg.cx/2dZG <http://t.co/0D2vSUtqqf>
​with wide JNC and WSF quotes​


Chantal Lebrument
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2015-01-24 0:21 GMT+01:00 parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:

>
> On Friday 23 January 2015 11:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>
>> Hi Parminder,
>>
>> how the ISF is linked to the IGF?
>>
>
> Hi Wolfgang
>
> One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one. One
> develops people's and civil society's positions on the key issue of the
> global Internet, the other is a place where such positions can enter into
> dialogue with holders of political and economic power - the governments and
> the corporate actors.
>
> Unless now the whole idea and concept of civil society - and along with
> those of people's movements, grassroots, activism, and so on - has been
> fully coopted in some people's mind with that of multistakeholderism
> (whatever one actually means by it, something that has remained notoriously
> unclear), the connection or link that you inquire about is extremely clear
> to me.
>
> Internet is not the first thing for which there has been felt a need for
> 'independently' forming a people's conception and set of hopes,
> expectations and demands - away from conclaves of power. There have been
> scores of others, and newer ones continue to arise. Accordingly if people's
> and civil society forums etc have been meaningful and needed in these
> areas, it is incumbent upon *those* who think they are *not needed* in the
> Internet space to explain why it is so, then the other way around.
>
> To put is somewhat flippantly, ISF is also a reaction of people who are
> fed up with an ongoing IG charade where for instance Fadi Chehade can with
> a straight face call the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative as the 'mother of all
> bottom -up processes' - even jokes require some plausibility limits!
>
> To take the example of one of the latest international global forums on a
> key global governance issue, the Lima meeting on climate change, you will
> perhaps know that parallel to it a people's meeting was held. Internet and
> its governance also needs such meetings, that is the simple logic of the
> Internet Social Forum. If you think that in the Internet's case, such
> meetings and forums are not needed, I would of course be curious to hear
> your case.
>
> I am happy to engage further with you on this issue, and answer your
> questions.
>
> Lastly, let me invite you to join the ISF process. We work under the World
> Social Forum (WSF) process and principles - whereby its meetings are open
> to all civil society participants subject to very inimum conditions that
> are listed on their website.
>
> Further, if the discussion is to now turn to the WSF, its meaning,
> relevance, etc, I am as happy to engage with you on that subject.
>
> Regards, parminder
>
>
>
>> Wolfgang
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder
>> Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01
>> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum
>>   Enclosed Spanish version... parminder
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>>
>>> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
>>> - With a call to occupy the Internet
>>>
>>> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>>>
>>> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
>>> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
>>> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
>>> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
>>> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
>>> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
>>> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>>>
>>> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
>>> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
>>> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
>>> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
>>> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
>>> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
>>> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
>>> counter initiative to the WEF.
>>>
>>> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
>>> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
>>> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
>>> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
>>> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
>>> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
>>> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>>>
>>> "While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
>>> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
>>> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
>>> privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public
>>> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
>>> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
>>> ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
>>> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
>>> initiative.
>>>
>>> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
>>> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
>>> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
>>> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
>>> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
>>> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
>>> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
>>> community to generate and share.
>>>
>>> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's call for a 'Magna
>>> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
>>> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
>>> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
>>> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
>>> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>>>
>>> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
>>> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
>>> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
>>> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
>>> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
>>> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
>>> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
>>> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
>>> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
>>> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
>>> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
>>> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
>>> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>>>
>>> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
>>> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
>>> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
>>> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
>>> People's Internet Manifesto.
>>>
>>> Just Net Coalition, Global
>>> P2P Foundation, Global
>>> Transnational Institute, Global
>>> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
>>> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
>>> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
>>> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
>>> Knowledge Commons, India
>>> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
>>> SLFC.in, India
>>> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
>>> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
>>> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
>>> Canada IT for Change, India
>>> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
>>> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
>>> Free Press, USA
>>> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
>>> Other News, Italy
>>> Free Software Movement of India
>>> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
>>> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
>>> All India Peoples Science Network, India
>>> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>>>
>>> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
>>> information or clarification.
>>>
>>> Or the following regional contacts:
>>>
>>> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>>
>>>
>>> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
>>> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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From jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net  Sat Jan 24 02:23:23 2015
From: jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net (Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:23:23 +0100
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Internet Social Forum
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Quoted a Register piece written by Kieren McCarthy
Hibernating NetMundial continues to rattle internet governance world reg.cx/2dZG

As to NetMundial's three-month consultation period, that will seemingly be led by respected internet governance academic and ICANN Board member Wolfgang Kleinwachter. The NetMundial organizers did not reveal how much they will pay Kleinwachter to lend the initiative his credibility, but his first attempt to make the internet community learn to love the idea came in the form of a blog post at the start of the year.




Le 24 janv. 2015 à 00:21, parminder a écrit :

> 
> On Friday 23 January 2015 11:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>> Hi Parminder,
>> 
>> how the ISF is linked to the IGF?
> 
> Hi Wolfgang
> 
> One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one. One develops people's and civil society's positions on the key issue of the global Internet, the other is a place where such positions can enter into dialogue with holders of political and economic power - the governments and the corporate actors.
> 
> Unless now the whole idea and concept of civil society - and along with those of people's movements, grassroots, activism, and so on - has been fully coopted in some people's mind with that of multistakeholderism (whatever one actually means by it, something that has remained notoriously unclear), the connection or link that you inquire about is extremely clear to me.
> 
> Internet is not the first thing for which there has been felt a need for 'independently' forming a people's conception and set of hopes, expectations and demands - away from conclaves of power. There have been scores of others, and newer ones continue to arise. Accordingly if people's and civil society forums etc have been meaningful and needed in these areas, it is incumbent upon *those* who think they are *not needed* in the Internet space to explain why it is so, then the other way around.
> 
> To put is somewhat flippantly, ISF is also a reaction of people who are fed up with an ongoing IG charade where for instance Fadi Chehade can with a straight face call the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative as the 'mother of all bottom -up processes' - even jokes require some plausibility limits!
> 
> To take the example of one of the latest international global forums on a key global governance issue, the Lima meeting on climate change, you will perhaps know that parallel to it a people's meeting was held. Internet and its governance also needs such meetings, that is the simple logic of the Internet Social Forum. If you think that in the Internet's case, such meetings and forums are not needed, I would of course be curious to hear your case.
> 
> I am happy to engage further with you on this issue, and answer your questions.
> 
> Lastly, let me invite you to join the ISF process. We work under the World Social Forum (WSF) process and principles - whereby its meetings are open to all civil society participants subject to very inimum conditions that are listed on their website.
> 
> Further, if the discussion is to now turn to the WSF, its meaning, relevance, etc, I am as happy to engage with you on that subject.
> 
> Regards, parminder
> 
>> 
>> Wolfgang
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder
>> Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01
>> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum
>>  Enclosed Spanish version... parminder
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>>> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
>>> - With a call to occupy the Internet
>>> 
>>> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>>> 
>>> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
>>> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
>>> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
>>> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
>>> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
>>> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
>>> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>>> 
>>> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
>>> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
>>> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
>>> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
>>> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
>>> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
>>> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
>>> counter initiative to the WEF.
>>> 
>>> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
>>> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
>>> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
>>> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
>>> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
>>> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
>>> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>>> 
>>> "While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
>>> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
>>> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
>>> privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public
>>> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
>>> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
>>> ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
>>> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
>>> initiative.
>>> 
>>> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
>>> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
>>> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
>>> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
>>> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
>>> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
>>> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
>>> community to generate and share.
>>> 
>>> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's call for a 'Magna
>>> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
>>> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
>>> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
>>> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
>>> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>>> 
>>> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
>>> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
>>> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
>>> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
>>> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
>>> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
>>> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
>>> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
>>> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
>>> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
>>> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
>>> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
>>> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>>> 
>>> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
>>> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
>>> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
>>> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
>>> People's Internet Manifesto.
>>> 
>>> Just Net Coalition, Global
>>> P2P Foundation, Global
>>> Transnational Institute, Global
>>> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
>>> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
>>> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
>>> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
>>> Knowledge Commons, India
>>> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
>>> SLFC.in, India
>>> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
>>> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
>>> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
>>> Canada IT for Change, India
>>> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
>>> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
>>> Free Press, USA
>>> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
>>> Other News, Italy
>>> Free Software Movement of India
>>> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
>>> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
>>> All India Peoples Science Network, India
>>> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>>> 
>>> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
>>> information or clarification.
>>> 
>>> Or the following regional contacts:
>>> 
>>> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
>>> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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From parminder at itforchange.net  Sat Jan 24 20:11:00 2015
From: parminder at itforchange.net (parminder)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 06:41:00 +0530
Subject: [governance] Piece on IG in the annual 'state of power' publication
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Some of you may be aware that the Transnational Institute brings out an 
annual 'State of Power' publication to conclude with the WEF meetings in 
Davos and the declarations by the 1 percent that may be issued over there.

The introduction to this publication is as follows;

"The fourth edition of our annual State of Power report, coinciding with 
the international meeting in Switzerland of what Susan George calls “the 
Davos class”. This series seeks to examine different dimensions of 
power, unmask the key holders of power in our globalised world, and 
identify sources of transformative counter-power."
(ends)

While the whole of it is worth reading, I especially point to the 
chapter on Internet governance "The true stakes of Internet governance".

please see http://www.tni.org/stateofpower2015

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From wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de  Sun Jan 25 07:15:02 2015
From: wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Kleinw=E4chter=2C_Wolfgang=22?=)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:15:02 +0100
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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Dear friends,

six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal? 

Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues. 
2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December 2015 and others. 

Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects the reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other stakeholder groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and transparency with regard to the various positions is a key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding. 

Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with regard to WSIS 10+.         

Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:

I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical. They should not intervene into the content of the individual contributions. The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 - 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to select a special sub-item. 

II. The book should have four chapters:
1.	Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Content, Culture etc.)
2.	Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime, Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
3.	Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity etc.)
4.	Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)

III. Timetable
It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil. Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014. 

Best regards

Wolfgang

PS: 
I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID 
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/

w



Hi everybody

After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly) disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the position. So it is about transparency and clarity. 

Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.       

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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From gurstein at gmail.com  Sun Jan 25 07:19:28 2015
From: gurstein at gmail.com (michael gurstein)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:19:28 -0800
Subject: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
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Coverage of the ISF in an Indian daily

M

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/455369/towards-democratic-internet-governance.html


Towards democratic Internet governance


*	1 min read 
*	 

Shruthi H M, Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2015, DHNS:

The Internet might have pervaded the common man's life but its governance still remains in the hands of a few corporate giants. To counter this, civil society organisations propose democratic Internet governance. 

Though Google’s Eric Schmidt predicts the “disappearance of Internet into the background”, a group of organisations have set out to bring to fore voices that have remained in the background in spite of the Internet’s all pervasive nature.As the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2015 is in progress in Davos (Jan 21-24), civil society organisations have come together to create a global ‘Internet Social Forum’ countering the WEF's NETmundial initiative for Internet governance. The organisations aim to create an Internet space governed in public interest. 

Bengaluru-based organisation IT for Change will be an active part of this global forum, along with five other Indian organisations: Society For Knowledge Commons, All India Peoples Science Network, Free Software Movement of India, SLFC.in and Digital Empowrment Foundation. 

The Internet Social Forum will consist of civil society organisations from across the globe who believe that Internet governance should not be limited to the vested interests of corporate giants. Their endeavour is to put in place a “bottom's up” approach, where grassroots groups can have their say in regulating Internet space.

Civil organisations feel that the WEF’s global internet policy making and governance initiative the ‘NETmundial’, restricts itself to the voices of the global elite. The concept of WEF itself has been countered by the “World Social Forum” and the Internet Social Forum draws inspiration from it. In fact, the “preparatory process” of the forum is likely to be held in March 2015 in Tunis, during the World Social Forum meet.

When one searches for something on the Internet, the most popular links related to the subject appear at the top of the list. 

However, more often links that appear first are not guided by popularity but by the money invested by interested parties to ensure they are displayed on top. In this regard, the Internet Social Forum will fight for “Net neutrality”. 

IT For Change Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh said, “In its current form, internet governance has not yet become a people's movement. The Internet is increasingly controlled by corporates.” 

Community owned broadband, data ownership, limits to copyright and including rural communities in the dialogue process are some of the issues that the forum seeks to address.

Rishab Bailey, Director (legal), Society For Knowledge Commons, added that such an initiative was significant as, at present, a lot of thought is going into setting up institutions for Internet governance. “We have to ensure a representative and democratic Internet governance. Internet is a global construct and it touches all our lives. As of now there are no concrete mechanisms to deal with issues pertaining to Internet governance. We have to make sure that Internet governance is a true bottoms up approach.” 

 

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From wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de  Sun Jan 25 07:58:45 2015
From: wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Kleinw=E4chter=2C_Wolfgang=22?=)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 13:58:45 +0100
Subject: AW: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
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Hi Michael,

I asked already Parminder how the ISF is linked to the IGF and I did not get an answer. Can you reply? 

Wolfgang




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Coverage of the ISF in an Indian daily

M

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/455369/towards-democratic-internet-governance.html


Towards democratic Internet governance


*	1 min read 
*	 

Shruthi H M, Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2015, DHNS:

The Internet might have pervaded the common man's life but its governance still remains in the hands of a few corporate giants. To counter this, civil society organisations propose democratic Internet governance. 

Though Google's Eric Schmidt predicts the "disappearance of Internet into the background", a group of organisations have set out to bring to fore voices that have remained in the background in spite of the Internet's all pervasive nature.As the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2015 is in progress in Davos (Jan 21-24), civil society organisations have come together to create a global 'Internet Social Forum' countering the WEF's NETmundial initiative for Internet governance. The organisations aim to create an Internet space governed in public interest. 

Bengaluru-based organisation IT for Change will be an active part of this global forum, along with five other Indian organisations: Society For Knowledge Commons, All India Peoples Science Network, Free Software Movement of India, SLFC.in and Digital Empowrment Foundation. 

The Internet Social Forum will consist of civil society organisations from across the globe who believe that Internet governance should not be limited to the vested interests of corporate giants. Their endeavour is to put in place a "bottom's up" approach, where grassroots groups can have their say in regulating Internet space.

Civil organisations feel that the WEF's global internet policy making and governance initiative the 'NETmundial', restricts itself to the voices of the global elite. The concept of WEF itself has been countered by the "World Social Forum" and the Internet Social Forum draws inspiration from it. In fact, the "preparatory process" of the forum is likely to be held in March 2015 in Tunis, during the World Social Forum meet.

When one searches for something on the Internet, the most popular links related to the subject appear at the top of the list. 

However, more often links that appear first are not guided by popularity but by the money invested by interested parties to ensure they are displayed on top. In this regard, the Internet Social Forum will fight for "Net neutrality". 

IT For Change Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh said, "In its current form, internet governance has not yet become a people's movement. The Internet is increasingly controlled by corporates." 

Community owned broadband, data ownership, limits to copyright and including rural communities in the dialogue process are some of the issues that the forum seeks to address.

Rishab Bailey, Director (legal), Society For Knowledge Commons, added that such an initiative was significant as, at present, a lot of thought is going into setting up institutions for Internet governance. "We have to ensure a representative and democratic Internet governance. Internet is a global construct and it touches all our lives. As of now there are no concrete mechanisms to deal with issues pertaining to Internet governance. We have to make sure that Internet governance is a true bottoms up approach." 

 



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From pimienta at funredes.org  Sun Jan 25 09:10:39 2015
From: pimienta at funredes.org (Daniel Pimienta)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:10:39 -0400
Subject: The Good the Bad and the Ugly was Re: [governance] Internet  Social
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Thanks Carlos to share in this list the statement of J. Malcolm.

As an early follower and today member and ally of 
JNC and its plan to launch an ISF I have read 
with attention this document, especially because 
you qualified it as "excellent".
I appreciate the time the author has invested in 
putting together the document and the huge effort 
to maintain a neutral tone...which, as I will 
show, has been struggling and loosing againts a 
deep rage he cannot hide. Why facing different 
vision provokes that much rage is hard to 
understand to me... Why Carlos Afonso find excellence here does surprise me.

Maybe my reading is not enough objective but I 
read basically 2 strong arguments against the action plan of JNC for an ISF:

1) The first argument is that "We in JNC are 
clear partisan of governments taking charge of the governance of the Internet."
The very axiom of all the the demonstration is 
just not true so unfortunalely all the derived theorems are wrong.
The critic of today multistakeholderism is not 
synonym of allegance to traditional governmental 
form of democracy... or imagination has become so limited in civil society?
The arguing that JNC pretend to use standard 
democratic repreasentation and member states 
competent international organisations is nothing 
but an oversimplification which is not prone to 
good dialog and somehow is part of the second argument.

2) The second argument is the demonization of the players of JNC.

Let me just list the various qualificatives spead 
over the rationale to make my point:

- profoundly dysfunctional (engagement with civil society)
-  (the people of JNC has) frequently threatened to tear that group apart
- a prominent JNC member almost came to blows 
with a female attendee (this for Parminder)
- the toxic relationship that its representatives 
have cultivated with the rest of civil society.
- to disrupt ... by hectoring, intimidating and 
disparaging participants who expressed pro-multistakeholder views.
- this is a farcical insult (refer to Gurstein's)
-  the disruptive behaviour of JNC
- these demands were delivered with such hubris 
and entitlement  that the effect has been to 
isolate JNC from other civil society groups and 
networks and to sow seeds of discord
that will have lasting effects - JNC betrayed 
that trust...  (this is for Norbert)
- This is a shame
- preferring to focus its destructive anger on 
easier,weaker targets ­ its own civil society colleagues.

This seems to me to be a replay of a good 
spaghetti western with JNC in the role of the 
ugly, IGF in the role of the bad and BetBits in the role of the Good.
I prefer Sergio Leone version :-) and I have a 
hard time to understand why a profound difference 
of vision inside civil society should be treated 
as a pathologic deviance as would homosexuality 
be treated in some very conservative countries...

To conclude, I am myself a "white man" born in a 
developing country, with a nationality of an 
industrialized country who lived in a developing 
country... but who cares beyond Mr. Malcolm  (X :-)?)
and what sort of argument is that to designate MM. Pouzin and Nothias?

Daniel Pimienta

PD: There is a simple way to determine if, as M. 
Malcolm pretends, his views on the Ugly part of 
this community are shared by the majority: this 
is a survey on the list with the appropriate 
questions, a device that virtual community 
managers use when conflictive situation occurs. I 
do suggest to the convenors of this list to think 
seriously about it so nobody can pretend talking 
on the name of the rest of us without factual support.

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From stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca  Sun Jan 25 09:32:38 2015
From: stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca (Stephanie Perrin)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:32:38 -0500
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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I think this is an excellent idea Wolfgang.  I am particularly aware and 
conscious of the tensions among/between groups promoting privacy/data 
protection/transparency/freedom of speech, and it would be good to set 
out some of the issues that lie at the heart of those tensions.  We 
sometimes need to remind ourselves that we are actually on the same side.
Kind regards,
Stephanie Perrin
On 2015-01-25 7:15, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?
>
> Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues.
> 2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December 2015 and others.
>
> Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects the reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other stakeholder groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and transparency with regard to the various positions is a key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding.
>
> Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with regard to WSIS 10+.
>
> Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:
>
> I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical. They should not intervene into the content of the individual contributions. The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 - 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to select a special sub-item.
>
> II. The book should have four chapters:
> 1.	Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Content, Culture etc.)
> 2.	Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime, Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
> 3.	Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity etc.)
> 4.	Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)
>
> III. Timetable
> It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil. Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014.
>
> Best regards
>
> Wolfgang
>
> PS:
> I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/
>
> w
>
>
>
> Hi everybody
>
> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly) disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
>
> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
>
> 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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From gurstein at gmail.com  Sun Jan 25 10:14:51 2015
From: gurstein at gmail.com (michael gurstein)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:14:51 -0800
Subject: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
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Hi Wolfgang,

I think that Parminder gave you a quite extensive answer which I won't even
attempt to repeat...

My own (and personal take) is that the ISF will give prominence to issues
related to the Internet and social justice, something which has been more or
less completely ignored in the context of the IGF and other Internet
Governance processes.

For me, my work in the context of community informatics and my activities in
linking the Community Informatics network to the JNC (and in future (I
expect) to the ISF) is about how the Internet (and ICTs overall) can be used
to promote social justice and how various kinds of interventions may be
needed to overcome the massive amounts of economic (and thus social)
inequalities which are emerging (one can assume causatively) as a more or
less direct result of the interventions of the Internet.

That civil society in Internet Governance has ignored these issues of social
justice and has allowed the various processes concerning Internet Governance
equally to ignore (including dare I say, allowing for and enabling the high
degree of selectivity in the choices of which Human Rights to promote and
which to avoid), is to my mind scandalous and a serious dereliction of their
responsibilities to the point where it is laughable and a fairly serious
category mistake to refer to most of the individuals and groups involved as
civil society at all.

So, to answer your question my own activities in relation to the ISF will be
to ensure that questions of social justice and economic and social
inequality in the context of the Internet, of Internet governance, and of
governance of and with the Internet are front and centre in our discussions.

Best,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
[mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de] 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 4:59 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein;
governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: AW: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum

Hi Michael,

I asked already Parminder how the ISF is linked to the IGF and I did not get
an answer. Can you reply? 

Wolfgang




-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von michael gurstein
Gesendet: So 25.01.2015 13:19
An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Betreff: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
 
Coverage of the ISF in an Indian daily

M

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/455369/towards-democratic-internet-gover
nance.html


Towards democratic Internet governance


*	1 min read 
*	 

Shruthi H M, Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2015, DHNS:

The Internet might have pervaded the common man's life but its governance
still remains in the hands of a few corporate giants. To counter this, civil
society organisations propose democratic Internet governance. 

Though Google's Eric Schmidt predicts the "disappearance of Internet into
the background", a group of organisations have set out to bring to fore
voices that have remained in the background in spite of the Internet's all
pervasive nature.As the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2015 is in progress in
Davos (Jan 21-24), civil society organisations have come together to create
a global 'Internet Social Forum' countering the WEF's NETmundial initiative
for Internet governance. The organisations aim to create an Internet space
governed in public interest. 

Bengaluru-based organisation IT for Change will be an active part of this
global forum, along with five other Indian organisations: Society For
Knowledge Commons, All India Peoples Science Network, Free Software Movement
of India, SLFC.in and Digital Empowrment Foundation. 

The Internet Social Forum will consist of civil society organisations from
across the globe who believe that Internet governance should not be limited
to the vested interests of corporate giants. Their endeavour is to put in
place a "bottom's up" approach, where grassroots groups can have their say
in regulating Internet space.

Civil organisations feel that the WEF's global internet policy making and
governance initiative the 'NETmundial', restricts itself to the voices of
the global elite. The concept of WEF itself has been countered by the "World
Social Forum" and the Internet Social Forum draws inspiration from it. In
fact, the "preparatory process" of the forum is likely to be held in March
2015 in Tunis, during the World Social Forum meet.

When one searches for something on the Internet, the most popular links
related to the subject appear at the top of the list. 

However, more often links that appear first are not guided by popularity but
by the money invested by interested parties to ensure they are displayed on
top. In this regard, the Internet Social Forum will fight for "Net
neutrality". 

IT For Change Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh said, "In its current
form, internet governance has not yet become a people's movement. The
Internet is increasingly controlled by corporates." 

Community owned broadband, data ownership, limits to copyright and including
rural communities in the dialogue process are some of the issues that the
forum seeks to address.

Rishab Bailey, Director (legal), Society For Knowledge Commons, added that
such an initiative was significant as, at present, a lot of thought is going
into setting up institutions for Internet governance. "We have to ensure a
representative and democratic Internet governance. Internet is a global
construct and it touches all our lives. As of now there are no concrete
mechanisms to deal with issues pertaining to Internet governance. We have to
make sure that Internet governance is a true bottoms up approach." 

 



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From ymshana2003 at gmail.com  Sun Jan 25 10:20:35 2015
From: ymshana2003 at gmail.com (ymshana2003)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:20:35 +0200
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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+1
This is a very good suggestion in order to streamline the way forward. 

However,  since this compendium will be at global level, and since stakeholders operate in varied 'level of maturity' on Internet issues, may I suggest that a Chapter is added which is specufically on: "Internet Policy Development Processes and Isues"?

I presume that each Chapter might have policy development issues somehow but still there is a need for specificities.

That is my small addition to this great thought. 

Kind regards

Yassin




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Date:25/01/2015  14:15  (GMT+02:00) 
To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>,governance at lists.igcaucus.org,michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net,governance at lists.igcaucus.org 
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification 

Dear friends,

six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal? 

Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues. 
2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December 2015 and others. 

Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects the reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other stakeholder groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and transparency with regard to the various positions is a key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding. 

Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with regard to WSIS 10+.         

Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:

I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical. They should not intervene into the content of the individual contributions. The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 - 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to select a special sub-item. 

II. The book should have four chapters:
1.	Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Content, Culture etc.)
2.	Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime, Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
3.	Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity etc.)
4.	Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)

III. Timetable
It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil. Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014. 

Best regards

Wolfgang

PS: 
I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID 
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/

w



Hi everybody

After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly) disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the position. So it is about transparency and clarity. 

Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.       

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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From f.massit at orange.fr  Sun Jan 25 10:58:31 2015
From: f.massit at orange.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?fran=E7oise?=)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:58:31 +0100
Subject: The Good the Bad and the Ugly was Re: [governance] Internet
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+ 1
Thanks, Daniel, for your precise and critical  reading.

Relating to "consensus", may I suggest a reference towards a more  
dynamic conception of democracy ?
""I use the concept of agonistic pluralism to present a new way to  
think about democracy that is different from the traditional liberal  
conception of democracy as a negotiation among interests and is also  
different from the model that is currently being developed by people  
like Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls. While they have many differences,  
Rawls and Habermas have in common the idea that the aim of the  
democratic society is the creation of a consensus, and that consensus  
is possible if people are only able to leave aside their particular  
interests and think as rational beings. However, while we desire an  
end to conflict, if we want people to be free we must always allow for  
the possibility that conflict may appear and to provide an arena where  
differences can be confronted. The democratic process should supply  
that arena." Chantal Mouffe, (2000) The Democratic Paradox. London,  
New York. Verso.

And I would ask the proponents of peaceful debates to questioning the  
rough and contemptuous tone some of them are using towards  voices  
that don't endorse their positions ... Conflict has been existing for  
a long time (and probably it won't come to an end)  between civil  
society groups but the worst attitude would be ignoring or opacifying  
their rationale.

Best regards,
Françoise

Le 25 janv. 15 à 15:10, Daniel Pimienta a écrit :

> Thanks Carlos to share in this list the statement of J. Malcolm.
>
> As an early follower and today member and ally of JNC and its plan  
> to launch an ISF I have read with attention this document,  
> especially because you qualified it as "excellent".
> I appreciate the time the author has invested in putting together  
> the document and the huge effort to maintain a neutral tone...which,  
> as I will show, has been struggling and loosing againts a deep rage  
> he cannot hide. Why facing different vision provokes that much rage  
> is hard to understand to me... Why Carlos Afonso find excellence  
> here does surprise me.
>
> Maybe my reading is not enough objective but I read basically 2  
> strong arguments against the action plan of JNC for an ISF:
>
> 1) The first argument is that "We in JNC are clear partisan of  
> governments taking charge of the governance of the Internet."
> The very axiom of all the the demonstration is just not true so  
> unfortunalely all the derived theorems are wrong.
> The critic of today multistakeholderism is not synonym of allegance  
> to traditional governmental form of democracy... or imagination has  
> become so limited in civil society?
> The arguing that JNC pretend to use standard democratic  
> repreasentation and member states competent international  
> organisations is nothing but an oversimplification which is not  
> prone to good dialog and somehow is part of the second argument.
>
> 2) The second argument is the demonization of the players of JNC.
>
> Let me just list the various qualificatives spead over the rationale  
> to make my point:
>
> - profoundly dysfunctional (engagement with civil society)
> -  (the people of JNC has) frequently threatened to tear that group  
> apart
> - a prominent JNC member almost came to blows with a female attendee  
> (this for Parminder)
> - the toxic relationship that its representatives have cultivated  
> with the rest of civil society.
> - to disrupt ... by hectoring, intimidating and disparaging  
> participants who expressed pro-multistakeholder views.
> - this is a farcical insult (refer to Gurstein's)
> -  the disruptive behaviour of JNC
> - these demands were delivered with such hubris and entitlement   
> that the effect has been to isolate JNC from other civil society  
> groups and networks and to sow seeds of discord
> that will have lasting effects - JNC betrayed that trust...  (this  
> is for Norbert)
> - This is a shame
> - preferring to focus its destructive anger on easier,weaker targets  
> ­ its own civil society colleagues.
>
> This seems to me to be a replay of a good spaghetti western with JNC  
> in the role of the ugly, IGF in the role of the bad and BetBits in  
> the role of the Good.
> I prefer Sergio Leone version :-) and I have a hard time to  
> understand why a profound difference of vision inside civil society  
> should be treated as a pathologic deviance as would homosexuality be  
> treated in some very conservative countries...
>
> To conclude, I am myself a "white man" born in a developing country,  
> with a nationality of an industrialized country who lived in a  
> developing country... but who cares beyond Mr. Malcolm  (X :-)?)
> and what sort of argument is that to designate MM. Pouzin and Nothias?
>
> Daniel Pimienta
>
> PD: There is a simple way to determine if, as M. Malcolm pretends,  
> his views on the Ugly part of this community are shared by the  
> majority: this is a survey on the list with the appropriate  
> questions, a device that virtual community managers use when  
> conflictive situation occurs. I do suggest to the convenors of this  
> list to think seriously about it so nobody can pretend talking on  
> the name of the rest of us without factual support.
>
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From ian.peter at ianpeter.com  Sun Jan 25 15:30:12 2015
From: ian.peter at ianpeter.com (Ian Peter)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:30:12 +1100
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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Hi Wolfgang,

I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.

I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the different 
groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way to proceed 
(eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) - because I think 
many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I am not 
sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is always 
accurate or helpful.

But I am entirely behind the idea of a publication which would reflect in a 
balanced way all the voices within civil society, and including 
organisational stances on issues where these are clear.

But one catch. Although I am happy to be involved, I cannot take on the 
central organising role for this. I am wondering if someone else would like 
to take this on - I would be happy to assist, even be co-editor - but in 
this timeframe my time is limited due to other commitments.

If someone with the time available and organising skills would like to take 
on a coordinating role, I would be pleased to participate and help. Contact 
me off line if you wish.

It would be great to see this idea materialise.

Ian


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From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:15 PM
To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; michael 
gurstein ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification

Dear friends,

six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to 
Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or 
Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?

Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global Internet 
Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving multistakeholder 
approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues.
2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of 
civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working 
Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings 
of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The 
Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December 
2015 and others.

Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a broad 
diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects the 
reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other stakeholder 
groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of 
positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the 
private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among 
transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed 
and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are 
differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the 
NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the reality of 
the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable 
progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main 
groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and 
transparency with regard to the various positions is a key pre-condition to 
promote mutual understanding.

Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or 
individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on 
paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it 
comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance 
civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with 
regard to WSIS 10+.

Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and 
critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a 
good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and 
counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a 
project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I 
got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:

I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should function 
as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a co-editor. The 
role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical. They should not 
intervene into the content of the individual contributions. The six 
co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four 
contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups 
whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or 
represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 - 
8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to 
select a special sub-item.

II. The book should have four chapters:
1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, 
Content, Culture etc.)
2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime, 
Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market 
Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and Linguistic 
Diversity etc.)
4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)

III. Timetable
It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the 
Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be 
ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A 
formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil. 
Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for distribution 
at the 10th IGF in November 2014.

Best regards

Wolfgang

PS:
I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/

w



Hi everybody

After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying 
collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly) 
disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with 
different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who 
want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well 
as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the 
othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has 
similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the 
governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil, 
India, Japan, Australia etc.
This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the 
position. So it is about transparency and clarity.

Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people writing 
long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we use 
this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue 
papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real 
points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different 
arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.

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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From jefsey at jefsey.com  Sun Jan 25 20:31:25 2015
From: jefsey at jefsey.com (JFC Morfin)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:31:25 +0100
Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
References: <793FFF2DB19A4177851ACCDC06269034@Toshiba>
 <54762985.2010101@apc.org>
 <053001d009ba$768cf260$63a6d720$@gmail.com>
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Dear Wolfgang,

However I disagree with the ultimate target ...

At 13:15 25/01/2015, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
>This pluralism and diversity reflects the 
>reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If 
>one want to achieve sustainable progress a rough 
>consensus has to include the main arguments from 
>the main groups of all stakeholders.

because we are not confronted to a semi 
democratic multistakhoderic but to a necessarily 
polycratic omnistakeholderic global network issue,

>To achieve concrete results openess and 
>transparency with regard to the various 
>positions is a key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding.

I certainly agree with this.


>Insofar it would be good if civil society 
>Internet Governance groups or individuals could 
>describe openly what they are standing for. To 
>have on paper the various perspectives different 
>civil society groups have if it comes to 
>Internet policy related issues would be useful 
>and could enhance civil society input into the 
>forthcoming negotiations, in particular with regard to WSIS 10+.

Yes.

>Since I did send this proposals to this list I 
>got numerous comments and critical remarks. Some 
>respondents supported the project and called it 
>a good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, 
>unrealistic and counterproductive idea. Many 
>partners made concrete proposals how such a 
>project could be further enhanced. Taking into 
>account all the feed back I got since last month 
>I would specify my proposal in the following way:

The processus is correct if no topic and no 
response is blocked. In any case a common and 
clear thematic reference grid will have been worked out.

>II. The book should have four chapters:
>1.      Human Rights and Internet(Access, 
>Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Content, Culture etc.)
>2.      Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, 
>Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime, Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
>3.      Social, Economic and Cultural 
>Development (Digital Divide, Market Domination, 
>Competition, Infrastructure Development, 
>Cultural and Linguistic Diversity etc.)
>4.      Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, 
>Protocols, Accountability etc.)

 From this I infer that the matter is open, yet 
also Internet centered. This only addresses half 
of the pending issues. The other half, which are 
at the origin of the current transition is the 
insertion of the internet issues within a quickly expending digitality.

>III. Timetable
>It would be good to have a first draft ready 
>until early May (for the Meeting of the UNCSTD). 
>The final e-Version of the whole book should be 
>ready until early September for use by the WSIS 
>10+ negotiations groups. A formal presentation 
>should be organized during the 10th IGF in 
>Brazil. Efforts should be undertake to produce 
>also a paper version for distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014.

This is an acceptable framework. I note FYI that:

1. I may delay the IETF contributive RFC by my appeal that will reach ISOC.
2. The reason of this appeal is the dillution of 
the ICANN accountability to IAB through 
technology conformance and IANA. This leads to an 
accountability by coopetition (along the RFC 6852 
paradigm), at least with the Free/Libre community.

However, the result should only a formal 
clarification/affirmation of the IAB/IETF position.

It should therefore
1. not affect the framework and help the proposed process.
2. lead to a debate on two missing chapters of the book:
     - (sub)structural description of the cyberspace
     - cyberspace accountability framwork

Best
Jefsey


>
>
>Best regards
>
>Wolfgang
>
>PS:
>I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/


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From pouzin at well.com  Sun Jan 25 23:27:35 2015
From: pouzin at well.com (Louis Pouzin (well))
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 05:27:35 +0100
Subject: [governance] From Confusion to Clarification
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There isn't anything on stakeholders roles, in particular States and USA.

Louis
- - -

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:21 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying
> collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly)
> disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with
> different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers
> who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as
> well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society.
> On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups
> has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you
> compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU,
> Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the
> position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
>
> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people
> writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if
> we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or
> issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the
> real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather
> different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
>
> 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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From joly at punkcast.com  Mon Jan 26 02:31:18 2015
From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:31:18 -0500
Subject: [governance] WEBCAST MONDAY: Governments and Internet Governance
Message-ID: <CAM9VJk3ch3u1TUO-YGQonOYEChJV18ywMd1ZNsAYqhjzG=9AZw@mail.gmail.com>

Another highly topical discussion from the dynamic DC duo of ISOC DC and
the IIEP. With the NMI staggering
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/24/hibernating_netmundial_continues_to_rattle_internet_governance_world/>
into existence, and now a new kid on the block  - the Internet Social Forum
<http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF> rattling the cage, and the old stalwart
the IGF going intersessional
<http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/176-igf-2015/preparatory-process/2142-open-call-for-input-on-inter-sessional-work>
-
multistakeholder opportunities for governments to engage the Internet
community are expanding pell-mell! As the WSIS review
<http://www.itu.int/wsis/review/2014.html> looms, there is an urgency to
get ducks lined up..

NYC will be well represented at this one. Not only is Veni now based back
in town as he tackles the UN, but moderator Nancy Scola is also an emigre
from our fair city. Plus I (Joly) will be traveling down myself to run the
webcast.

 joly posted: " Today, Monday 26 January 2015 the Greater Washington DC
Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) and the Institute of
International Economic Policy (IIEP) present Governments and Internet
Governance . Despite their long experience in global and domestic"


[image: ISOC DC Human Rights in IG]
<http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/20150126InternetGovernance>
Today,* Monday 26 January 2015* the *Greater Washington DC Chapter of the
Internet Society <http://www.isoc-dc.org/>* (ISOC-DC) and the *Institute of
International Economic Policy <http://www.gwu.edu/~iiep/> *(IIEP)
present *Governments
and Internet Governance
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/governments-and-internet-governance-tickets-15261753315/>
*. Despite their long experience in global and domestic governance,
policymakers from many nations struggle to find their way in Internet
governance. On one hand, only governments can join international
organizations such as the UN or WTO. However, the same governments do not
have a privileged role in Internet governance institutions such as the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF); the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN); or the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
where governments are just one among many actors. Meanwhile, many other
stakeholders are increasingly concerned about increased participation by
governments in the technical infrastructure and governance bodies that
underpin the Internet. This event will examine several different
perspectives on participation by governments in Internet governance.
Panel: *Amr
Aljowaily*, Embassy of Egypt, NYC; Sally Wentworth, Vice President of
Global Policy Development, Internet Society; *Veni Markowski*, Bulgaria, VP
for UN Engagement, ICANN; *Dr. Marc Daumas*, Scientific Attache, Embassy of
France; *Carolina de Cresce El Debs*, Embassy of Brazil; *David Satola*,
The World Bank. Moderator: *Nancy Scola*, The Washington Post. The event
will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream
<http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/20150126InternetGovernance>*
channel.





*What: Governments and Internet Governance
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/governments-and-internet-governance-tickets-15261753315/>
Where: Institute for International Economic Policy, George Washington
University, Washington DC When: Monday 26 January 2015 12:30pm-2pm EST |
17:30-19:00 UTC Webcast:
http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/20150126InternetGovernance
<http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/20150126InternetGovernance>
Twitter: @isocdc + #governance
<https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=isocdc%20governance&src=typd>*


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From nb at bollow.ch  Mon Jan 26 05:15:50 2015
From: nb at bollow.ch (Norbert Bollow)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:15:50 +0100
Subject: The Good the Bad and the Ugly was Re: [governance] Internet
  Social Forum
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:10:39 -0400
Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org> wrote:

> Why facing different 
> vision provokes that much rage is hard to 
> understand to me...

My understanding of the situation is that the strong negative emotions
which are in the above described as "rage" are not so much because of
our vision and views being different from his, but I see them as having
started from a particular event, which makes them understandable to
some degree at least.

In my view, we need to accept human nature for what it is, which
includes the reality that sometimes civil society colleagues will act in
a way that others consider unacceptable, while the questionable action
is undertaken for reasons that in the eyes of whoever takes that action
at least makes that conduct appear acceptable or even necessary and
appropriate. Only on such a basis of basic acceptance is it possible to
learn to generally interact in a constructive manner. While accepting
that even *generally* interacting in a constructive manner does not
exclude situations where one colleague feels compelled to act in a way
that the other finds unacceptable. Accepting anger-provoking actions may
become a bit easier when realizing that among the most anger-provoking
actions there are those that are born out of the motive of wanting to
point out something that (from the perspective of a particular
perception and understanding of incomplete information) might be a
seriously bad development under the umbrella of global civil society in
Internet governance.

From my perspective, Jeremy's recent text is a libelous rant full of
insinuations and distortions of the facts. Some of it being direct
libelous attacks on some of his civil society colleagues, and as such
totally and absolutely unacceptable. He would see this differently of
course, I'm sure that he would never post anything with an intention of
thereby committing libel which is after all a punishable offense.
(Although what he has written about me and others who are mentioned by
name is probably less insulting than the implied reference to all
others who are involved as them somehow having no significance at all,
while in fact quite a few of them are much more senior and more
experienced activists than for example I am.)

In fact now after a couple of days have allowed me to calm down a bit in
that respect, I think that Jeremy's motives in being alarmed at what he
sees (in my view, totally mistakenly) as something that might be bad and
dangerous are not totally different from what motivated me when I first
heard rumors about the funding situation of some projects represented
on the BestBits steering committee and then, after starting to ask
questions, I received strong evidence that BestBits itself was, at
least initially and from some perspective, a formal "capacity building"
project partly funded by the US government. Having been a BestBits
participant personally, I was totally shocked. I am not in principle
opposed to formal civil society capacity building projects being partly
funded by governments, or even a government with so many highly
problematic (and in fact in my eyes outright criminal and imperialistic)
actions as the US government. Accepting money from a government is not
wrong in itself. When a government gives money for a good thing, that
is not wrong, it might just be a matter of the government simply doing
what governments are supposed to do. But care must be taken especially
in civil society contexts that what was initially intended to be a
genuine civil society activity does not get unduly influenced, in other
words corrupted, by that government money. (The same kind of concerns of
course also potentially applies to all other sources of money.) At the
very least, the participants in what is in any respect a formal
capacity building project need to be informed about the existence of
that capacity building project together with its objectives and funding
sources. That had not happened in the case of BestBits. This was in my
eyes particularly shocking in view of a very significant part of the
first BestBits meeting having been spent on preparing an international
civil society stance in preparation for the 2012 World Conference on
International Telecommunications (WCIT) which turned out to be very
much aligned with the US government's objectives in those international
negotiations. If view of that context, together with the other aspects
of the situation (which include a previous, unsuccessful, good faith
attempt on my part to get the situation clarified in a less public
manner) I eventually resorted to asking pointed questions in public.
Jeremy obviously considers that to have been unacceptable. I still view
it as having been appropriate and necessary if I wanted to be "on the
right side of history". I did not want to risk losing a significant
part of my personal integrity through becoming an accomplice through
silence.

That said, Jeremy was never personally implicated in any of the rumors
that I heard nor in the evidence that I have. His funding situation has
to my best knowledge always been totally clear and above-board, and I
have no indications whatsoever of him having been involved personally
in that capacity building project side of BestBits (which was so
unacceptable in my eyes precisely because it was not disclosed to the
participants in general -- I have no indication of it ever having been
disclosed to Jeremy before I informed him of what I had learned.)

However, Jeremy being the founder of BestBits, I find it perfectly
understandable that he got angry about my decision to ask pointed
questions in public, especially if those questions ended up making his
work a bit more difficult for some time. Perhaps not totally unlike how
his recent blog post is making the work of getting an Internet Social
Forum off the ground more difficult. 

Now that he has had his revenge, and I have clarified my perspective on
what I suspect was the core point of contention, I would propose that
it is time to let bygones be bygones, and go back to interacting in a
more constructive manner.

Greetings,
Norbert

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From jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr  Mon Jan 26 05:28:34 2015
From: jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr (jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:28:34 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [governance] From Confusion to Clarification
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Right, Louis

 

There isn't anything about Ethics either. Yet it has been assigned a specific Action Line in the WSIS (AL-10) and was recognized as an issue transverse to the whole set of AL.

Probably Ethics are not " ITC/IG-soluble" ... 

 

Best 

Jean-Louis Fullsack

 

 

 

 

> Message du 26/01/15 05:29
> De : "Louis Pouzin (well)" 

> A : "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" , "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" 
> Copie à : "michael gurstein" , "&lt,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net&gt," 
> Objet : Re: [governance] From Confusion to Clarification
> 
>

There isn't anything on stakeholders roles, in particular States and USA.

>
Louis
- - -

>
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:21 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"  wrote:
>
Hi everybody
> 
> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly) disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
> 
> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
> 
> 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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From nb at bollow.ch  Mon Jan 26 05:46:38 2015
From: nb at bollow.ch (Norbert Bollow)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:46:38 +0100
Subject: [governance] From Confusion to Clarification
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:28:34 +0100 (CET)
jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr wrote:

> There isn't anything about Ethics either. Yet it has been assigned a
> specific Action Line in the WSIS (AL-10) and was recognized as an
> issue transverse to the whole set of AL.

Good point.

> Probably Ethics are not " ITC/IG-soluble" ... 

Regardless of whether the questions around ethics are "soluble",
differences in viewpoints about matters of ethics certainly exist, and
I would say they underly many of the conflicts that have been so very
troubling especially here on this list, therefore a project aiming at
clarifying the different viewpoints should IMO not avoid the topic of
ethics, but rather address it heads-on.

Greetings,
Norbert

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From kichango at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 07:03:20 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:03:20 +0000
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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Hi,

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.
>
> I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the different
> groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way to proceed
> (eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) - because I
> think many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I
> am not sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is
> always accurate or helpful.
>

This has been my concern, too, from my very first reply to the initial
proposal, and still remains. We are far from having a homomorphism between
the CSCG member groupings and the "diverse voices" you are referring to,
Wolfgang. It seems to me the most identifiable voice(s) within the CSCG
setting -- in terms of what all members stand for -- include JNC (social
justice) and maybe BestBits (?), both of whom spun off from IGC where they
still have their footprint aside possible other voices. In other words, IGC
which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one voice. I suspect there is
also notable diversity of voices within NCSG although it is my sense that
they have clearer and tested working processes and are more ready to reach
a common position on a whole host of issues than IGC does. Furthermore you
have
on the other hand
folks such as JFC and their following, whom I am not sure to what extent
they overlap with JNC and to what extent they have a distinct voice.

All of this to say, you may go with the above groupings but I am not sure
they will provide a clear map of the actual voices that exist within CS in
terms of families of thought, basic assumptions, visions, goals, values or
principles of commitments, etc. If we can find a practical way to identify
those, that would be great but I recognize it might be challenging. I am
just putting the idea out there so that we recognize that potential
limitation and see whether we can come up with some innovative ways to work
around it. (Again, I also understand that you may just have made the
deliberate choice to start from the existing _social groupings_
 and let them
bear the responsibility to put forward their common voice OR their diverse
voices on the issues, taking the burden away from the architect of the
project (outline of the volume) as well as from the editors and placing it
on the groups themselves, which will not make IGC business any easier ;-)
Nevertheless, this approach also has its won merits.)


Mawaki



>
> -----Original Message----- From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:15 PM
> To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; michael
> gurstein ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to
> Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or
> Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?
>
> Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global
> Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving
> multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues.
> 2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of
> civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working
> Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings
> of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The
> Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December
> 2015 and others.
>
> Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a
> broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects
> the reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other
> stakeholder groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad
> varierty of positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to
> China. In the private sector stakeholder group there are different
> approaches among transnational corporations and small and medium
> enterprises from developed and developing countries. And even among the I*
> organizations there are differences, as we have seen recently in the
> positioning towards the NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity
> reflects the reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to
> achieve sustainable progress a rough consensus has to include the main
> arguments from the main groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete
> results openess and transparency with regard to the various positions is a
> key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding.
>
> Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or
> individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on
> paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it
> comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance
> civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with
> regard to WSIS 10+.
>
> Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and
> critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a
> good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and
> counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a
> project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I
> got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:
>
> I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should function
> as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a co-editor.
> The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical. They should
> not intervene into the content of the individual contributions. The six
> co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four
> contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups
> whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or
> represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 -
> 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to
> select a special sub-item.
>
> II. The book should have four chapters:
> 1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy,
> Content, Culture etc.)
> 2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime,
> Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
> 3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market
> Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and
> Linguistic Diversity etc.)
> 4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)
>
> III. Timetable
> It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the
> Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be
> ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A
> formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil.
> Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for
> distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014.
>
> Best regards
>
> Wolfgang
>
> PS:
> I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_
> outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/
>
> w
>
>
>
> Hi everybody
>
> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying
> collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly)
> disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with
> different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers
> who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as
> well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society.
> On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups
> has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you
> compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU,
> Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the
> position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
>
> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people
> writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if
> we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or
> issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the
> real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather
> different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
>
> 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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From joly at punkcast.com  Mon Jan 26 08:02:11 2015
From: joly at punkcast.com (Joly MacFie)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:02:11 -0500
Subject: [governance] =?UTF-8?Q?WEBCAST_TUESDAY_=E2=80=93_State_of_the_Net?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?_2015?=
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At the State of the Net Tuesday again we have a healthy NYC contingent
representing. Nancy Scola is moderating a panel on Digital Protectionism
<http://stateofthenet2015.sched.org/event/b1c979890977bead1ac4a9c03ff77455>,
Rachel Sklar is moderating a panel on Diversity
<http://stateofthenet2015.sched.org/event/c7fb2ea7f4ea9d18a5ff3734f0e777be>
that includes NYTM's Jessica Lawrence. Nilay Patel is on the Open Internet
panel
<http://stateofthenet2015.sched.org/event/56b1c4199f03a723e29a4ef289a8b5df> -
along with Harold Feld! Nilay has to be an expert on NN since he moderated
the Legal Hackers South Street Seaport <https://isoc-ny.org/p2/6844>
special last July! And then, also from NYC is me (joly) doing the streaming.

Now, as far as the webcast goes. First the $99. SInce we are sponsoring the
webcast we have negotiated a reduced rate of $25 for ISOC members. To get
the rate all you have to do is email Paul Brigner (currently in Budapest so
he will up early on Tuesday morning!) at brigner at isoc.org and he will mail
you back an individualized discount code. If you are not an ISOC member
please join, it's free! While all that is confirmed for the webcast at the
moment are the morning plenaries,  If you are seriously into Internet
policy it has to be worth the 25.

 In the afternoon there are 3 tracks - see
http://stateofthenet2015.sched.org/venues/ - and how and if and which will
be streamed  is something I'll sort out on the fly. I'd like to do both
those rooms on the 8th floor. My feeling is that, if nobody objects and
it's technically feasible I might bounce room 807 out to another, possibly
free, channel. If so I will announce here. Stay tuned.


 joly posted: " On Tuesday January 27 2015 the  Internet Education
Foundation (IEF) will host the 2015 State of the Net Conference at the
Newseum in Washington DC. Among the many listed speakers are US CTO Megan
Smith, FTC Chair Edith Ramirez, Assistant AG Leslie Caldwe"


[image: State of the Net] <http://stateofthenet.cleeng.com/> On *Tuesday
January 27 2015* the  *Internet Education Foundation <http://neted.org/> *(IEF)
will host the *2015 State of the Net Conference*
<http://www.stateofthenet.org/> at the *Newseum* in *Washington DC*. Among
the many listed speakers are US CTO *Megan Smith*, FTC Chair *Edith Ramirez*,
Assistant AG *Leslie Caldwell*, WH Director of Cybersecurity *Ari Schwartz,*
Congressman *Bob Goodlatte*, the NTIA's *Larry Strickling*, ICANN's *Theresa
Swinehart*, the NCUC's* Milton Mueller*, ISOC's *Sally Wentworth*, CDT's *Nuala
O'Connor*, the FCC's *Gigi Sohn*, and her former PK colleague *Harold Feld*.
As the 114th Congress kicks off, attendees include some 300 congressional
staff and other policymakers. The *Internet Societ
<http://internetsociety.org>y* is sponsoring and providing the *live
webcast <http://stateofthenet.cleeng.com/>*, which is priced at *$99*.







*What: 2015 State of the Net Conference <http://www.stateofthenet.org/>
Where: Newseum, Washington DC When: Tuesday January 27 2015 pam-5pm EST |
14:00-22:00 UTC Agenda: http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn15-agenda/
<http://www.stateofthenet.org/sotn15-agenda/> Speakers:
http://stateofthenet2015.sched.org/directory/speakers
<http://stateofthenet2015.sched.org/directory/speakers> Webcast:
http://stateofthenet.cleeng.com/ <http://stateofthenet.cleeng.com/> ($99)
Twitter: #sotn15
<https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23sotn15&src=typd>*


Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7410#respond>   See all comments
<http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7410#comments>






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From gpaque at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 09:01:57 2015
From: gpaque at gmail.com (Ginger Paque)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:01:57 -0600
Subject: [governance] Fwd: [Webinar] Internet governance in 2015: a decisive
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*(Apologies for cross-posting!)*

I'd like to share two announcements which may be of interest to you and
your colleagues. The first is an invitation to join us tomorrow at 12h UTC
for the webinar *Internet Governance in 2015: A Decisive Year, *which is
the annual 'crystal ball' exercise led by Dr Jovan Kurbalija. More
information below, or here
<http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-internet-governance-2015>.
Please register to reserve your 'seat'.

The second relates to the call for applications for *Introduction to
Internet Governance <http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses/IGCBP-foundation> *online
course which starts in February. The deadline has been extended; for
additional extensions, please contact admissions at diplomacy.edu




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From kichango at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 10:00:39 2015
From: kichango at gmail.com (Mawaki Chango)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:00:39 +0000
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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N.B. Of course there also is APC as a clearly identifiable CS party under
the parasol of rights, but I would say more specifically women rights (as
several other CS families can also claim HR as their compass.) Anyway, that
was just to correct an oversight. For the rest it is up to each grouping to
come up with their best and accurate self-characterization. And just for
the sake of being complete, Diplo is an hybrid in my view and I'm not sure
how they would characterize their CS commitments (and btw, if my
information is correct they have announced their intention to withdraw from
CSCG which causes another problem if you rely on the latter to define which
groups will be included in this proposed opus.) Civicus has never really
engaged wiith CSCG as far as I can tell.

mC


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>
>> I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.
>>
>> I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the different
>> groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way to proceed
>> (eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) - because I
>> think many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I
>> am not sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is
>> always accurate or helpful.
>>
>
> This has been my concern, too, from my very first reply to the initial
> proposal, and still remains. We are far from having a homomorphism between
> the CSCG member groupings and the "diverse voices" you are referring to,
> Wolfgang. It seems to me the most identifiable voice(s) within the CSCG
> setting -- in terms of what all members stand for -- include JNC (social
> justice) and maybe BestBits (?), both of whom spun off from IGC where they
> still have their footprint aside possible other voices. In other words, IGC
> which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one voice. I suspect there is
> also notable diversity of voices within NCSG although it is my sense that
> they have clearer and tested working processes and are more ready to reach
> a common position on a whole host of issues than IGC does. Furthermore you
> have
> on the other hand
> folks such as JFC and their following, whom I am not sure to what extent
> they overlap with JNC and to what extent they have a distinct voice.
>
> All of this to say, you may go with the above groupings but I am not sure
> they will provide a clear map of the actual voices that exist within CS in
> terms of families of thought, basic assumptions, visions, goals, values or
> principles of commitments, etc. If we can find a practical way to identify
> those, that would be great but I recognize it might be challenging. I am
> just putting the idea out there so that we recognize that potential
> limitation and see whether we can come up with some innovative ways to work
> around it. (Again, I also understand that you may just have made the
> deliberate choice to start from the existing _social groupings_
>  and let them
> bear the responsibility to put forward their common voice OR their diverse
> voices on the issues, taking the burden away from the architect of the
> project (outline of the volume) as well as from the editors and placing it
> on the groups themselves, which will not make IGC business any easier ;-)
> Nevertheless, this approach also has its won merits.)
>
>
> Mawaki
>
>
>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:15 PM
>> To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; michael
>> gurstein ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
>>
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to
>> Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or
>> Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?
>>
>> Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global
>> Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving
>> multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues.
>> 2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of
>> civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working
>> Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings
>> of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The
>> Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December
>> 2015 and others.
>>
>> Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a
>> broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects
>> the reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other
>> stakeholder groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad
>> varierty of positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to
>> China. In the private sector stakeholder group there are different
>> approaches among transnational corporations and small and medium
>> enterprises from developed and developing countries. And even among the I*
>> organizations there are differences, as we have seen recently in the
>> positioning towards the NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity
>> reflects the reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to
>> achieve sustainable progress a rough consensus has to include the main
>> arguments from the main groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete
>> results openess and transparency with regard to the various positions is a
>> key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding.
>>
>> Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or
>> individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on
>> paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it
>> comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance
>> civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with
>> regard to WSIS 10+.
>>
>> Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and
>> critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a
>> good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and
>> counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a
>> project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I
>> got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:
>>
>> I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should
>> function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a
>> co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical.
>> They should not intervene into the content of the individual contributions.
>> The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four
>> contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups
>> whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or
>> represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 -
>> 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to
>> select a special sub-item.
>>
>> II. The book should have four chapters:
>> 1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy,
>> Content, Culture etc.)
>> 2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime,
>> Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
>> 3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market
>> Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and
>> Linguistic Diversity etc.)
>> 4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)
>>
>> III. Timetable
>> It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the
>> Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be
>> ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A
>> formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil.
>> Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for
>> distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
>> PS:
>> I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
>> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_
>> outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/
>>
>> w
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying
>> collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly)
>> disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with
>> different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers
>> who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as
>> well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society.
>> On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups
>> has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you
>> compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU,
>> Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
>> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the
>> position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
>>
>> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people
>> writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if
>> we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or
>> issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the
>> real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather
>> different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
>>
>> 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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From arsenebaguma at yahoo.fr  Mon Jan 26 10:10:56 2015
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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 10:33:39 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:33:39 -0400
Subject: [governance] Comments please
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Dear Colleagues,
I am currently preparing for the Caribbean Telecommunications Union 25th
Anniversary ICT Week to be held in Trinidad next week (2nd-6th February). I
believe that several members of this caucus will be attending that meeting.
Do members, particularly but not exclusively those from small developing
states, have knowledge that they would be willing to share on this topic?
Please indicate if you would NOT like your name to be used, as otherwise I
will of course credit the source of the ideas

This is from the letter of invitation:

We are living in an era of unprecedented technological convergence, which
is having significant ramifications for all of our stakeholders. The CTU
has been striving to prepare and support its members to leverage the
opportunities presented by this technological revolution. Consequently, the
theme chosen for the 25th Anniversary ICT Week is *“**Celebrating our past;
Committing to our future**”. *

The First Session of ICT Week is entitled, “*Thriving in the storm of the
technological revolution: Understanding the realities of our radically
changing world and identifying imperatives and opportunities for the
Caribbean to Succeed”*. Given your unique perspective as a Member of Civil
Society, we would like you to contribute to a Panel Discussion on the
topic, “*Crafting an Appropriate Regional Response to the Converged World”*
.

Thank you

Deirdre

-- 
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From nb at bollow.ch  Mon Jan 26 10:48:32 2015
From: nb at bollow.ch (Norbert Bollow)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:48:32 +0100
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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-Cc all except the IGC list

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:03:20 +0000
Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> In other words, IGC which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one
> voice.

In fact, despite all its shortcomings (which include the fact that
what the Charter says about enforcing the posting rules is not being
done, and may in fact be impossible to do) IGC. i.e. this list, right
now is still the best place to go to when desiring a broad discussion
inclusive of the whole variety of civil society viewpoints.

> Furthermore you have on the other hand folks such as JFC and their
> following, whom I am not sure to what extent they overlap with JNC
> and to what extent they have a distinct voice.

100% distinct. Neither JFC nor anyone with a similar viewpoint is a
member of JNC ( http://justnetcoalition.org/jnc-members ).

Also please keep in mind that JNC members have every right to speak
with their own distinct voice. JNC does not speak for its members
except when a JNC statement is issued. (These go through a formal
consensus call process.)

Greetings,
Norbert
co-convenor, Just Net Coalition (JNC)
http://JustNetCoalition.org

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From jaryn56 at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 11:15:14 2015
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:15:14 -0500
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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Podemos estar un poco lejos de una estructura similar y de composición
de ideas y voces, pero eso no quiere decir que estemos lejos de llegar
éticamente a un acuerdo de las diversas voces de los grupos, tanto
dentro de la CSCG o de NCSG, o de diversos grupos no afiliados e
independientes sobre la Gobernanza de Internet.

Lo que falta es un llamado al dialogo y discusión sobre un fin, en el
cual todos den su opinión y sobre ello llegar a un acuerdo en donde no
haya vencidos ni vencedores.

Podemos comenzar como ejemplo un dialogo de ideas y sugerencias en
nuestra lista, pidiéndoles a todos los miembros que den su parecer o
su punto de vista de los temas que se debe de discutir o enriquecer
para llegar a un acuerdo, porque creo que aun dentro de nuestra lista
governance.lists.igcaucus.org, no todos comparten las misas opiniones
o ideas


Todo esto no quiere decir que de inmediato tendremos un mapa claro de
las voces de los diversos miembros o de las demás agrupaciones
aceptando, pero si estoy seguro de que proporcionará un mapa claro de
las voces reales que existen dentro de las diversas agrupaciones sobre
la Gobernanza de Internet, y con ello dar el nacimiento a lo que
podría ser a nivel mundial, como por ejemplo:

·  Los supuestos básicos en lo que se debe de regir una “Constitución
Única” sobre la Gobernanza de Internet.

·  Sus visiones y metas.



Todo ello es un reto, pero la idea es que aun siendo un reto grande,
tenemos que tener la voluntad de decidirnos a encontrar una forma de
unir criterios, ideas y voces, de que si podemos llegar a formas
innovadoras de unidad de ideas y de trabajar alrededor de ella.






Cordialmente:         José Félix Arias Ynche
                        Investigador Social Para El Desarrollo


2015-01-26 10:00 GMT-05:00 Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>:
> N.B. Of course there also is APC as a clearly identifiable CS party under
> the parasol of rights, but I would say more specifically women rights (as
> several other CS families can also claim HR as their compass.) Anyway, that
> was just to correct an oversight. For the rest it is up to each grouping to
> come up with their best and accurate self-characterization. And just for the
> sake of being complete, Diplo is an hybrid in my view and I'm not sure how
> they would characterize their CS commitments (and btw, if my information is
> correct they have announced their intention to withdraw from CSCG which
> causes another problem if you rely on the latter to define which groups will
> be included in this proposed opus.) Civicus has never really engaged wiith
> CSCG as far as I can tell.
>
> mC
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>>
>>> I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.
>>>
>>> I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the different
>>> groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way to proceed
>>> (eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) - because I think
>>> many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I am not
>>> sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is always
>>> accurate or helpful.
>>
>>
>> This has been my concern, too, from my very first reply to the initial
>> proposal, and still remains. We are far from having a homomorphism between
>> the CSCG member groupings and the "diverse voices" you are referring to,
>> Wolfgang. It seems to me the most identifiable voice(s) within the CSCG
>> setting -- in terms of what all members stand for -- include JNC (social
>> justice) and maybe BestBits (?), both of whom spun off from IGC where they
>> still have their footprint aside possible other voices. In other words, IGC
>> which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one voice. I suspect there is
>> also notable diversity of voices within NCSG although it is my sense that
>> they have clearer and tested working processes and are more ready to reach a
>> common position on a whole host of issues than IGC does. Furthermore you
>> have
>> on the other hand
>> folks such as JFC and their following, whom I am not sure to what extent
>> they overlap with JNC and to what extent they have a distinct voice.
>>
>> All of this to say, you may go with the above groupings but I am not sure
>> they will provide a clear map of the actual voices that exist within CS in
>> terms of families of thought, basic assumptions, visions, goals, values or
>> principles of commitments, etc. If we can find a practical way to identify
>> those, that would be great but I recognize it might be challenging. I am
>> just putting the idea out there so that we recognize that potential
>> limitation and see whether we can come up with some innovative ways to work
>> around it. (Again, I also understand that you may just have made the
>> deliberate choice to start from the existing _social groupings_
>>  and let them
>> bear the responsibility to put forward their common voice OR their diverse
>> voices on the issues, taking the burden away from the architect of the
>> project (outline of the volume) as well as from the editors and placing it
>> on the groups themselves, which will not make IGC business any easier ;-)
>> Nevertheless, this approach also has its won merits.)
>>
>>
>> Mawaki
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:15 PM
>>> To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; michael
>>> gurstein ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>> Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to
>>> Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or
>>> Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?
>>>
>>> Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global
>>> Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving
>>> multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues.
>>> 2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of
>>> civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working
>>> Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings
>>> of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The
>>> Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December
>>> 2015 and others.
>>>
>>> Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a
>>> broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects the
>>> reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other stakeholder
>>> groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of
>>> positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the
>>> private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among
>>> transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed
>>> and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are
>>> differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the
>>> NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the reality of
>>> the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable
>>> progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main
>>> groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and
>>> transparency with regard to the various positions is a key pre-condition to
>>> promote mutual understanding.
>>>
>>> Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or
>>> individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on
>>> paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it
>>> comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance
>>> civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with
>>> regard to WSIS 10+.
>>>
>>> Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and
>>> critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a
>>> good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and
>>> counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a
>>> project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I
>>> got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:
>>>
>>> I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should
>>> function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a
>>> co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical.
>>> They should not intervene into the content of the individual contributions.
>>> The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four
>>> contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups
>>> whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or
>>> represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 -
>>> 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to
>>> select a special sub-item.
>>>
>>> II. The book should have four chapters:
>>> 1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy,
>>> Content, Culture etc.)
>>> 2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime,
>>> Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
>>> 3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market
>>> Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and Linguistic
>>> Diversity etc.)
>>> 4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability
>>> etc.)
>>>
>>> III. Timetable
>>> It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the
>>> Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be
>>> ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A
>>> formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil.
>>> Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for distribution
>>> at the 10th IGF in November 2014.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>> PS:
>>> I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
>>>
>>> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/
>>>
>>> w
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi everybody
>>>
>>> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying
>>> collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly)
>>> disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with
>>> different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who
>>> want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well
>>> as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the
>>> othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has
>>> similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the
>>> governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil,
>>> India, Japan, Australia etc.
>>> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the
>>> position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
>>>
>>> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people
>>> writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we
>>> use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue
>>> papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real
>>> points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different
>>> arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
>>>
>>> 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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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 11:31:38 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:31:38 -0400
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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Dear Jose,
Thank you.
I think this message makes very good suggestions.
Expect to hear more from us when Analia and I can reply together.
Meanwhile thank you again
Deirdre

Estimado José,
Gracias.
Creo que este mensaje hace muy buenas sugerencias.
Espera escuchar más de nosotros cuando Analia y yo puedo responder juntos.
Mientras tanto gracias de nuevo
Deirdre

On 26 January 2015 at 12:15, José Félix Arias Ynche <jaryn56 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Podemos estar un poco lejos de una estructura similar y de composición
> de ideas y voces, pero eso no quiere decir que estemos lejos de llegar
> éticamente a un acuerdo de las diversas voces de los grupos, tanto
> dentro de la CSCG o de NCSG, o de diversos grupos no afiliados e
> independientes sobre la Gobernanza de Internet.
>
> Lo que falta es un llamado al dialogo y discusión sobre un fin, en el
> cual todos den su opinión y sobre ello llegar a un acuerdo en donde no
> haya vencidos ni vencedores.
>
> Podemos comenzar como ejemplo un dialogo de ideas y sugerencias en
> nuestra lista, pidiéndoles a todos los miembros que den su parecer o
> su punto de vista de los temas que se debe de discutir o enriquecer
> para llegar a un acuerdo, porque creo que aun dentro de nuestra lista
> governance.lists.igcaucus.org, no todos comparten las misas opiniones
> o ideas
>
>
> Todo esto no quiere decir que de inmediato tendremos un mapa claro de
> las voces de los diversos miembros o de las demás agrupaciones
> aceptando, pero si estoy seguro de que proporcionará un mapa claro de
> las voces reales que existen dentro de las diversas agrupaciones sobre
> la Gobernanza de Internet, y con ello dar el nacimiento a lo que
> podría ser a nivel mundial, como por ejemplo:
>
> ·  Los supuestos básicos en lo que se debe de regir una “Constitución
> Única” sobre la Gobernanza de Internet.
>
> ·  Sus visiones y metas.
>
>
>
> Todo ello es un reto, pero la idea es que aun siendo un reto grande,
> tenemos que tener la voluntad de decidirnos a encontrar una forma de
> unir criterios, ideas y voces, de que si podemos llegar a formas
> innovadoras de unidad de ideas y de trabajar alrededor de ella.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Cordialmente:         José Félix Arias Ynche
>                         Investigador Social Para El Desarrollo
>
>
> 2015-01-26 10:00 GMT-05:00 Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>:
> > N.B. Of course there also is APC as a clearly identifiable CS party under
> > the parasol of rights, but I would say more specifically women rights (as
> > several other CS families can also claim HR as their compass.) Anyway,
> that
> > was just to correct an oversight. For the rest it is up to each grouping
> to
> > come up with their best and accurate self-characterization. And just for
> the
> > sake of being complete, Diplo is an hybrid in my view and I'm not sure
> how
> > they would characterize their CS commitments (and btw, if my information
> is
> > correct they have announced their intention to withdraw from CSCG which
> > causes another problem if you rely on the latter to define which groups
> will
> > be included in this proposed opus.) Civicus has never really engaged
> wiith
> > CSCG as far as I can tell.
> >
> > mC
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Wolfgang,
> >>>
> >>> I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.
> >>>
> >>> I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the
> different
> >>> groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way to
> proceed
> >>> (eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) - because I
> think
> >>> many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I am
> not
> >>> sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is always
> >>> accurate or helpful.
> >>
> >>
> >> This has been my concern, too, from my very first reply to the initial
> >> proposal, and still remains. We are far from having a homomorphism
> between
> >> the CSCG member groupings and the "diverse voices" you are referring to,
> >> Wolfgang. It seems to me the most identifiable voice(s) within the CSCG
> >> setting -- in terms of what all members stand for -- include JNC (social
> >> justice) and maybe BestBits (?), both of whom spun off from IGC where
> they
> >> still have their footprint aside possible other voices. In other words,
> IGC
> >> which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one voice. I suspect there
> is
> >> also notable diversity of voices within NCSG although it is my sense
> that
> >> they have clearer and tested working processes and are more ready to
> reach a
> >> common position on a whole host of issues than IGC does. Furthermore you
> >> have
> >> on the other hand
> >> folks such as JFC and their following, whom I am not sure to what extent
> >> they overlap with JNC and to what extent they have a distinct voice.
> >>
> >> All of this to say, you may go with the above groupings but I am not
> sure
> >> they will provide a clear map of the actual voices that exist within CS
> in
> >> terms of families of thought, basic assumptions, visions, goals, values
> or
> >> principles of commitments, etc. If we can find a practical way to
> identify
> >> those, that would be great but I recognize it might be challenging. I am
> >> just putting the idea out there so that we recognize that potential
> >> limitation and see whether we can come up with some innovative ways to
> work
> >> around it. (Again, I also understand that you may just have made the
> >> deliberate choice to start from the existing _social groupings_
> >>  and let them
> >> bear the responsibility to put forward their common voice OR their
> diverse
> >> voices on the issues, taking the burden away from the architect of the
> >> project (outline of the volume) as well as from the editors and placing
> it
> >> on the groups themselves, which will not make IGC business any easier
> ;-)
> >> Nevertheless, this approach also has its won merits.)
> >>
> >>
> >> Mawaki
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message----- From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:15 PM
> >>> To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; michael
> >>> gurstein ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> >>> Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dear friends,
> >>>
> >>> six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to
> >>> Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance
> Compendium or
> >>> Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?
> >>>
> >>> Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global
> >>> Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving
> >>> multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy
> issues.
> >>> 2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of
> >>> civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG
> Working
> >>> Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and
> meetings
> >>> of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The
> >>> Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in
> December
> >>> 2015 and others.
> >>>
> >>> Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a
> >>> broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It
> reflects the
> >>> reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other
> stakeholder
> >>> groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad
> varierty of
> >>> positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In
> the
> >>> private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among
> >>> transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from
> developed
> >>> and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are
> >>> differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the
> >>> NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the
> reality of
> >>> the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable
> >>> progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the
> main
> >>> groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and
> >>> transparency with regard to the various positions is a key
> pre-condition to
> >>> promote mutual understanding.
> >>>
> >>> Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or
> >>> individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have
> on
> >>> paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if
> it
> >>> comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could
> enhance
> >>> civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular
> with
> >>> regard to WSIS 10+.
> >>>
> >>> Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments
> and
> >>> critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it
> a
> >>> good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and
> >>> counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such
> a
> >>> project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed
> back I
> >>> got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:
> >>>
> >>> I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should
> >>> function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a
> >>> co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be
> technical.
> >>> They should not intervene into the content of the individual
> contributions.
> >>> The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite
> four
> >>> contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the
> groups
> >>> whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or
> >>> represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should
> be 4 -
> >>> 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject
> or to
> >>> select a special sub-item.
> >>>
> >>> II. The book should have four chapters:
> >>> 1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy,
> >>> Content, Culture etc.)
> >>> 2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime,
> >>> Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
> >>> 3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market
> >>> Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and
> Linguistic
> >>> Diversity etc.)
> >>> 4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability
> >>> etc.)
> >>>
> >>> III. Timetable
> >>> It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the
> >>> Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be
> >>> ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations
> groups. A
> >>> formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil.
> >>> Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for
> distribution
> >>> at the 10th IGF in November 2014.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>>
> >>> Wolfgang
> >>>
> >>> PS:
> >>> I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in
> CircleID
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/
> >>>
> >>> w
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi everybody
> >>>
> >>> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying
> >>> collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly)
> >>> disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with
> >>> different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for
> newcomers who
> >>> want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions
> as well
> >>> as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society.
> On the
> >>> othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has
> >>> similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you
> compare the
> >>> governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil,
> >>> India, Japan, Australia etc.
> >>> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the
> >>> position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
> >>>
> >>> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people
> >>> writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better
> if we
> >>> use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or
> issue
> >>> papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the
> real
> >>> points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather
> different
> >>> arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
> >>>
> >>> 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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From jfcallo at ciencitec.com  Mon Jan 26 12:32:32 2015
From: jfcallo at ciencitec.com (jfcallo at ciencitec.com)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:32:32 +0000
Subject: [governance] Las cosas bien claras
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Distinguido Tocayo Josè Arias:
Tienes razón en tu propuesta, además yo añadiría que al parecer no se  
tiene un contexto claro de la realidad. La lista por ejemplo desconoce  
lo que pasa en Perú con el Capitulo de ISOC, entrampado y apropiado  
por un egòlatra, que no hace absolutamente nada, un "perro del  
hortelano", ¿alguien dice algo?, nada, entonces los miembros no  
estamos agrupados, ni a veces bien representados, es importante tener  
un concierto grupal, general que nos arribe a un buen consenso, sin  
oportunistas, sino con gente, como de tu talla que hacen del uso de  
Internet, no una palanca personal, sino un tema de inclusión.
Bien Josè, espero sigamos en esta cantera de la contribución y el buen  
uso inclusivo de Internet.
Fraternalmente
Jose Francisco Callo Romero
Fundador de ISOC-PERU
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José Félix Arias Ynche <jaryn56 at gmail.com> escribió:

> Podemos estar un poco lejos de una estructura similar y de composición
> de ideas y voces, pero eso no quiere decir que estemos lejos de llegar
> éticamente a un acuerdo de las diversas voces de los grupos, tanto
> dentro de la CSCG o de NCSG, o de diversos grupos no afiliados e
> independientes sobre la Gobernanza de Internet.
>
> Lo que falta es un llamado al dialogo y discusión sobre un fin, en el
> cual todos den su opinión y sobre ello llegar a un acuerdo en donde no
> haya vencidos ni vencedores.
>
> Podemos comenzar como ejemplo un dialogo de ideas y sugerencias en
> nuestra lista, pidiéndoles a todos los miembros que den su parecer o
> su punto de vista de los temas que se debe de discutir o enriquecer
> para llegar a un acuerdo, porque creo que aun dentro de nuestra lista
> governance.lists.igcaucus.org, no todos comparten las misas opiniones
> o ideas
>
>
> Todo esto no quiere decir que de inmediato tendremos un mapa claro de
> las voces de los diversos miembros o de las demás agrupaciones
> aceptando, pero si estoy seguro de que proporcionará un mapa claro de
> las voces reales que existen dentro de las diversas agrupaciones sobre
> la Gobernanza de Internet, y con ello dar el nacimiento a lo que
> podría ser a nivel mundial, como por ejemplo:
>
> ·  Los supuestos básicos en lo que se debe de regir una “Constitución
> Única” sobre la Gobernanza de Internet.
>
> ·  Sus visiones y metas.
>
>
>
> Todo ello es un reto, pero la idea es que aun siendo un reto grande,
> tenemos que tener la voluntad de decidirnos a encontrar una forma de
> unir criterios, ideas y voces, de que si podemos llegar a formas
> innovadoras de unidad de ideas y de trabajar alrededor de ella.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Cordialmente:         José Félix Arias Ynche
>                         Investigador Social Para El Desarrollo
>
>
> 2015-01-26 10:00 GMT-05:00 Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>:
>> N.B. Of course there also is APC as a clearly identifiable CS party under
>> the parasol of rights, but I would say more specifically women rights (as
>> several other CS families can also claim HR as their compass.) Anyway, that
>> was just to correct an oversight. For the rest it is up to each grouping to
>> come up with their best and accurate self-characterization. And just for the
>> sake of being complete, Diplo is an hybrid in my view and I'm not sure how
>> they would characterize their CS commitments (and btw, if my information is
>> correct they have announced their intention to withdraw from CSCG which
>> causes another problem if you rely on the latter to define which groups will
>> be included in this proposed opus.) Civicus has never really engaged wiith
>> CSCG as far as I can tell.
>>
>> mC
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>>>
>>>> I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the different
>>>> groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way  
>>>> to proceed
>>>> (eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) -  
>>>> because I think
>>>> many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I am not
>>>> sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is always
>>>> accurate or helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>> This has been my concern, too, from my very first reply to the initial
>>> proposal, and still remains. We are far from having a homomorphism between
>>> the CSCG member groupings and the "diverse voices" you are referring to,
>>> Wolfgang. It seems to me the most identifiable voice(s) within the CSCG
>>> setting -- in terms of what all members stand for -- include JNC (social
>>> justice) and maybe BestBits (?), both of whom spun off from IGC where they
>>> still have their footprint aside possible other voices. In other words, IGC
>>> which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one voice. I suspect there is
>>> also notable diversity of voices within NCSG although it is my sense that
>>> they have clearer and tested working processes and are more ready  
>>> to reach a
>>> common position on a whole host of issues than IGC does. Furthermore you
>>> have
>>> on the other hand
>>> folks such as JFC and their following, whom I am not sure to what extent
>>> they overlap with JNC and to what extent they have a distinct voice.
>>>
>>> All of this to say, you may go with the above groupings but I am not sure
>>> they will provide a clear map of the actual voices that exist within CS in
>>> terms of families of thought, basic assumptions, visions, goals, values or
>>> principles of commitments, etc. If we can find a practical way to identify
>>> those, that would be great but I recognize it might be challenging. I am
>>> just putting the idea out there so that we recognize that potential
>>> limitation and see whether we can come up with some innovative ways to work
>>> around it. (Again, I also understand that you may just have made the
>>> deliberate choice to start from the existing _social groupings_
>>>  and let them
>>> bear the responsibility to put forward their common voice OR their diverse
>>> voices on the issues, taking the burden away from the architect of the
>>> project (outline of the volume) as well as from the editors and placing it
>>> on the groups themselves, which will not make IGC business any easier ;-)
>>> Nevertheless, this approach also has its won merits.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:15 PM
>>>> To: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; michael
>>>> gurstein ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>>> Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear friends,
>>>>
>>>> six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to
>>>> Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance  
>>>> Compendium or
>>>> Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?
>>>>
>>>> Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global
>>>> Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving
>>>> multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public  
>>>> policy issues.
>>>> 2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of
>>>> civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working
>>>> Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings
>>>> of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The
>>>> Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December
>>>> 2015 and others.
>>>>
>>>> Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a
>>>> broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It  
>>>> reflects the
>>>> reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other  
>>>> stakeholder
>>>> groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of
>>>> positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the
>>>> private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among
>>>> transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed
>>>> and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are
>>>> differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the
>>>> NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the  
>>>> reality of
>>>> the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable
>>>> progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main
>>>> groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and
>>>> transparency with regard to the various positions is a key  
>>>> pre-condition to
>>>> promote mutual understanding.
>>>>
>>>> Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or
>>>> individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on
>>>> paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it
>>>> comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance
>>>> civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with
>>>> regard to WSIS 10+.
>>>>
>>>> Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and
>>>> critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a
>>>> good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and
>>>> counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a
>>>> project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I
>>>> got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:
>>>>
>>>> I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should
>>>> function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a
>>>> co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical.
>>>> They should not intervene into the content of the individual  
>>>> contributions.
>>>> The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four
>>>> contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to  
>>>> the groups
>>>> whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or
>>>> represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution  
>>>> should be 4 -
>>>> 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to
>>>> select a special sub-item.
>>>>
>>>> II. The book should have four chapters:
>>>> 1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy,
>>>> Content, Culture etc.)
>>>> 2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime,
>>>> Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
>>>> 3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market
>>>> Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and  
>>>> Linguistic
>>>> Diversity etc.)
>>>> 4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability
>>>> etc.)
>>>>
>>>> III. Timetable
>>>> It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the
>>>> Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be
>>>> ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A
>>>> formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil.
>>>> Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for  
>>>> distribution
>>>> at the 10th IGF in November 2014.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>
>>>> PS:
>>>> I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
>>>>
>>>> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/
>>>>
>>>> w
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everybody
>>>>
>>>> After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying
>>>> collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly)
>>>> disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with
>>>> different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for  
>>>> newcomers who
>>>> want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance  
>>>> discussions as well
>>>> as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil  
>>>> society. On the
>>>> othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has
>>>> similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you  
>>>> compare the
>>>> governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil,
>>>> India, Japan, Australia etc.
>>>> This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the
>>>> position. So it is about transparency and clarity.
>>>>
>>>> Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people
>>>> writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be  
>>>> better if we
>>>> use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured  
>>>> position or issue
>>>> papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real
>>>> points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different
>>>> arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.
>>>>
>>>> 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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From jfcallo at ciencitec.com  Mon Jan 26 12:40:18 2015
From: jfcallo at ciencitec.com (jfcallo at ciencitec.com)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:40:18 +0000
Subject: [governance] Comments please
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I am interested in participating and contributing to an issue of my  
reality. I hope their communication.

Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> escribió:

> Dear Colleagues,
> I am currently preparing for the Caribbean Telecommunications Union 25th
> Anniversary ICT Week to be held in Trinidad next week (2nd-6th February). I
> believe that several members of this caucus will be attending that meeting.
> Do members, particularly but not exclusively those from small developing
> states, have knowledge that they would be willing to share on this topic?
> Please indicate if you would NOT like your name to be used, as otherwise I
> will of course credit the source of the ideas
>
> This is from the letter of invitation:
>
> We are living in an era of unprecedented technological convergence, which
> is having significant ramifications for all of our stakeholders. The CTU
> has been striving to prepare and support its members to leverage the
> opportunities presented by this technological revolution. Consequently, the
> theme chosen for the 25th Anniversary ICT Week is *“**Celebrating our past;
> Committing to our future**”. *
>
> The First Session of ICT Week is entitled, “*Thriving in the storm of the
> technological revolution: Understanding the realities of our radically
> changing world and identifying imperatives and opportunities for the
> Caribbean to Succeed”*. Given your unique perspective as a Member of Civil
> Society, we would like you to contribute to a Panel Discussion on the
> topic, “*Crafting an Appropriate Regional Response to the Converged World”*
> .
>
> Thank you
>
> Deirdre
>
> --
> “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979




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From compsoftnet at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 16:11:44 2015
From: compsoftnet at gmail.com (Akinremi Peter Taiwo)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:11:44 +0100
Subject: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
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Hey Michael,

    I can see the passion behind ISF and which is a good idea but....can't
these so called issues be address by existing civil society groups. I would
say that the issues parmider, and others want to address can be address if
the existing civil society groups can agree on a common ground.

I could see very well that most of the people behind ISF aren't in support
of NMI.

My questions is aren't we creating complexity for ourselves in the name of
not letting WEF from controlling the internet? Do you think it is possible
not allowing them getting involve?

I believe what we are all striving for is bottom up approach and
involvement of every stakeholders participation and that's why we have some
civil stakeholders on board to keep the NMI in the direction of bottom up
approach.

Also forming ISF, how do you intend steering NMI in good hope in favour of
every stakeholders?.

Hoping to hear from you.

Peter.
On Jan 25, 2015 1:19 PM, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coverage of the ISF in an Indian daily
>
> *M*
>
>
> http://www.deccanherald.com/content/455369/towards-democratic-internet-governance.html
> Towards democratic Internet governance
>
>    - 1 min read
>    -
>
> Shruthi H M, Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2015, DHNS:
>
> *The Internet might have pervaded the common man's life but its governance
> still remains in the hands of a few corporate giants. To counter this,
> civil society organisations propose democratic Internet governance. *
>
> Though Google’s Eric Schmidt predicts the “disappearance of Internet into
> the background”, a group of organisations have set out to bring to fore
> voices that have remained in the background in spite of the Internet’s all
> pervasive nature.As the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2015 is in progress in
> Davos (Jan 21-24), civil society organisations have come together to create
> a global ‘Internet Social Forum’ countering the WEF's NETmundial initiative
> for Internet governance. The organisations aim to create an Internet space
> governed in public interest.
>
> Bengaluru-based organisation IT for Change will be an active part of this
> global forum, along with five other Indian organisations: Society For
> Knowledge Commons, All India Peoples Science Network, Free Software
> Movement of India, SLFC.in and Digital Empowrment Foundation.
>
> The Internet Social Forum will consist of civil society organisations from
> across the globe who believe that Internet governance should not be limited
> to the vested interests of corporate giants. Their endeavour is to put in
> place a “bottom's up” approach, where grassroots groups can have their say
> in regulating Internet space.
>
> Civil organisations feel that the WEF’s global internet policy making and
> governance initiative the ‘NETmundial’, restricts itself to the voices of
> the global elite. The concept of WEF itself has been countered by the
> “World Social Forum” and the Internet Social Forum draws inspiration from
> it. In fact, the “preparatory process” of the forum is likely to be held in
> March 2015 in Tunis, during the World Social Forum meet.
>
> When one searches for something on the Internet, the most popular links
> related to the subject appear at the top of the list.
>
> However, more often links that appear first are not guided by popularity
> but by the money invested by interested parties to ensure they are
> displayed on top. In this regard, the Internet Social Forum will fight for
> “Net neutrality”.
>
> IT For Change Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh said, “In its
> current form, internet governance has not yet become a people's movement.
> The Internet is increasingly controlled by corporates.”
>
> Community owned broadband, data ownership, limits to copyright and
> including rural communities in the dialogue process are some of the issues
> that the forum seeks to address.
>
> Rishab Bailey, Director (legal), Society For Knowledge Commons, added that
> such an initiative was significant as, at present, a lot of thought is
> going into setting up institutions for Internet governance. “We have to
> ensure a representative and democratic Internet governance. Internet is a
> global construct and it touches all our lives. As of now there are no
> concrete mechanisms to deal with issues pertaining to Internet governance.
> We have to make sure that Internet governance is a true bottoms up
> approach.”
>
>
>
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From ymshana2003 at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 16:30:56 2015
From: ymshana2003 at gmail.com (ymshana2003)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:30:56 +0200
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification
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Btw. ..in addition to my previous request. ..this habit is what may culminate to demeaning thr CS to be just s Club of the knows just like the way we see Africans in the ICANN Structure. ....who need to represent development in Africa in Africans expectations. ..not their individual aspirations. ..I leave it there. .
Kind regards
Yassin Mshana


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From: Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> 
Date:26/01/2015  17:00  (GMT+02:00) 
To: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> 
Cc: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>,"Bits bestbits at lists.bestbits.net" <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>,Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org> 
Subject: Re: [bestbits] [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification 

N.B. Of course there also is APC as a clearly identifiable CS party under the parasol of rights, but I would say more specifically women rights (as several other CS families can also claim HR as their compass.) Anyway, that was just to correct an oversight. For the rest it is up to each grouping to come up with their best and accurate self-characterization. And just for the sake of being complete, Diplo is an hybrid in my view and I'm not sure how they would characterize their CS commitments (and btw, if my information is correct they have announced their intention to withdraw from CSCG which causes another problem if you rely on the latter to define which groups will be included in this proposed opus.) Civicus has never really engaged wiith CSCG as far as I can tell.
  
mC


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
Hi Wolfgang,

I am glad you raised this again, because I think the idea is great.

I am not sure that a direct correlation with CSCG and with the different groups within civil society who are CSCG members is the best way to proceed (eg one JNC article followed by one Best Bits article etc) - because I think many of our best people sit between and across various groups and I am not sure that direct characterisation of opinions with groupings is always accurate or helpful.

This has been my concern, too, from my very first reply to the initial proposal, and still remains. We are far from having a homomorphism between the CSCG member groupings and the "diverse voices" you are referring to, Wolfgang. It seems to me the most identifiable voice(s) within the CSCG setting -- in terms of what all members stand for -- include JNC (social justice) and maybe BestBits (?), both of whom spun off from IGC where they still have their footprint aside possible other voices. In other words, IGC which is also a CSCG member is certainly not one voice. I suspect there is also notable diversity of voices within NCSG although it is my sense that they have clearer and tested working processes and are more ready to reach a common position on a whole host of issues than IGC does. Furthermore you have on the other hand folks such as JFC and their following, whom I am not sure to what extent they overlap with JNC and to what extent they have a distinct voice.

All of this to say, you may go with the above groupings but I am not sure they will provide a clear map of the actual voices that exist within CS in terms of families of thought, basic assumptions, visions, goals, values or principles of commitments, etc. If we can find a practical way to identify those, that would be great but I recognize it might be challenging. I am just putting the idea out there so that we recognize that potential limitation and see whether we can come up with some innovative ways to work around it. (Again, I also understand that you may just have made the deliberate choice to start from the existing _social groupings_ and let them bear the responsibility to put forward their common voice OR their diverse voices on the issues, taking the burden away from the architect of the project (outline of the volume) as well as from the editors and placing it on the groups themselves, which will not make IGC business any easier ;-) Nevertheless, this approach also has its won merits.)
  
Mawaki  

 

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Subject: [governance] AW: From Confusion to Clarification


Dear friends,

six weeks ago I made a proposal under the thread "From Confusion to Clarification" to produce a Civil Society Internet Governance Compendium or Handbook. What was the idea behind the proposal?

Civil Society is a recognized and needed stakeholder in the global Internet Governance debate and a needed partner in the evolving multistakeholder approaches to manage Internet related public policy issues.
2015 will see a number of Internet Governance events where the voice of civil society has to be raised: It starts with the ITU Council IG Working Group Meetings in February, continues with UNESCO conferences and meetings of the UNCSTD, the HRC, the forthcoming Cybersecurity Conference in The Hague, the IGF in Brazil, the WSIS 10+ conference in New York in December 2015 and others.

Civil Society does not speak with one voice. It is characterized by a broad diversity. This is not a weakness, this is a strength. It reflects the reality. And it is not different from the diversity within other stakeholder groups. In the governmental stakeholder group you have a broad varierty of positions - from the US via EU, Brazil, Egypt and India to China. In the private sector stakeholder group there are different approaches among transnational corporations and small and medium enterprises from developed and developing countries. And even among the I* organizations there are differences, as we have seen recently in the positioning towards the NetMundial initiative. This pluralism and diversity reflects the reality of the Internet Governance ecosystem. If one want to achieve sustainable progress a rough consensus has to include the main arguments from the main groups of all stakeholders. To achieve concrete results openess and transparency with regard to the various positions is a key pre-condition to promote mutual understanding.

Insofar it would be good if civil society Internet Governance groups or individuals could describe openly what they are standing for. To have on paper the various perspectives different civil society groups have if it comes to Internet policy related issues would be useful anbd could enhance civil society input into the forthcoming negotiations, in particular with regard to WSIS 10+.

Since I did send this proposals to this list I got numerous comments and critical remarks. Some respondents supported the project and called it a good idea. Others argued that this is a bad, unrealistic and counterproductive idea. Many partners made concrete proposals how such a project could be further enhanced. Taking into account all the feed back I got since last month I would specify my proposal in the following way:

I. Ian Peter, in his capacity as acting chair of the CSCG, should function as the main editor. Each member of the CSCG should nominate a co-editor. The role of the editor and the co-editors would be technical. They should not intervene into the content of the individual contributions. The six co-editors of the six member groups of the CWSG should invite four contributors from their group, one for each chapter. It is up to the groups whether the individual author expresses his own individual position or represents the position of the whole group. Each contribution should be 4 - 8 pages. Each author would be free to cover either the whole subject or to select a special sub-item.

II. The book should have four chapters:
1. Human Rights and Internet(Access, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Content, Culture etc.)
2. Security in Cyberspace (Cyberwar, Cyberterrorism, Cybercrime, Surveillance, National Sovereignty etc.)
3. Social, Economic and Cultural Development (Digital Divide, Market Domination, Competition, Infrastructure Development, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity etc.)
4. Technical Coordination (Names, Numbers, Protocols, Accountability etc.)

III. Timetable
It would be good to have a first draft ready until early May (for the Meeting of the UNCSTD). The final e-Version of the whole book should be ready until early September for use by the WSIS 10+ negotiations groups. A formal presentation should be organized during the 10th IGF in Brazil. Efforts should be undertake to produce also a paper version for distribution at the 10th IGF in November 2014.

Best regards

Wolfgang

PS:
I have described the "Four Baskets" more in detail in my blog in CircleID
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/

w



Hi everybody

After weeks of confusing conflicts let´s move towards clarifying collaboration. What we have seen in the recent (sometimes unfriendly) disputes is that there are many different  civil society activists with different civil society positions. This is confusing, both for newcomers who want to join civil society groups in Internet Governance discussions as well as for other stakeholders who want to collaborate with civil society. On the othher Hand: This is natural. The civil Society Stakeholder Groups has similar differences as the governmental stakeholder group if you compare the governmental positions of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, EU, Brazil, India, Japan, Australia etc.
This not the Problem. The probllem is that you have to know what the position. So it is about transparency and clarity.

Here is a proposal how to move forward:  We have seen so many people writing long e-mails arguing for their position. Wouldn´t it be better if we use this energy to write more comprehensive and structured position or issue papers so that newbies or outsiders will better understand what the real points under discussions are in CS circles? We have seen rather different arguments around the same issue from JNC to APC and NCUC folks.

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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From ymshana2003 at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 17:45:13 2015
From: ymshana2003 at gmail.com (ymshana2003)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:45:13 +0200
Subject: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
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Well said but my 10 years experience tells me a different story. ..unless the CS comes up one voice...or shall I call it a Roar from the CS which is afterall, if I may say it.....another closed group of special interest..?
Kind regards
Yassin


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Date:26/01/2015  23:11  (GMT+02:00) 
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Subject: Re:[governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum 


Hey Michael,

    I can see the passion behind ISF and which is a good idea but....can't these so called issues be address by existing civil society groups. I would say that the issues parmider, and others want to address can be address if the existing civil society groups can agree on a common ground.

I could see very well that most of the people behind ISF aren't in support of NMI.

My questions is aren't we creating complexity for ourselves in the name of not letting WEF from controlling the internet? Do you think it is possible not allowing them getting involve?

I believe what we are all striving for is bottom up approach and involvement of every stakeholders participation and that's why we have some civil stakeholders on board to keep the NMI in the direction of bottom up approach.

Also forming ISF, how do you intend steering NMI in good hope in favour of every stakeholders?.

Hoping to hear from you.

Peter.

On Jan 25, 2015 1:19 PM, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
Coverage of the ISF in an Indian daily

M

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/455369/towards-democratic-internet-governance.html

Towards democratic Internet governance

1 min read
 
Shruthi H M, Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2015, DHNS:

The Internet might have pervaded the common man's life but its governance still remains in the hands of a few corporate giants. To counter this, civil society organisations propose democratic Internet governance. 

Though Google’s Eric Schmidt predicts the “disappearance of Internet into the background”, a group of organisations have set out to bring to fore voices that have remained in the background in spite of the Internet’s all pervasive nature.As the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2015 is in progress in Davos (Jan 21-24), civil society organisations have come together to create a global ‘Internet Social Forum’ countering the WEF's NETmundial initiative for Internet governance. The organisations aim to create an Internet space governed in public interest.

Bengaluru-based organisation IT for Change will be an active part of this global forum, along with five other Indian organisations: Society For Knowledge Commons, All India Peoples Science Network, Free Software Movement of India, SLFC.in and Digital Empowrment Foundation. 

The Internet Social Forum will consist of civil society organisations from across the globe who believe that Internet governance should not be limited to the vested interests of corporate giants. Their endeavour is to put in place a “bottom's up” approach, where grassroots groups can have their say in regulating Internet space.

Civil organisations feel that the WEF’s global internet policy making and governance initiative the ‘NETmundial’, restricts itself to the voices of the global elite. The concept of WEF itself has been countered by the “World Social Forum” and the Internet Social Forum draws inspiration from it. In fact, the “preparatory process” of the forum is likely to be held in March 2015 in Tunis, during the World Social Forum meet.

When one searches for something on the Internet, the most popular links related to the subject appear at the top of the list. 

However, more often links that appear first are not guided by popularity but by the money invested by interested parties to ensure they are displayed on top. In this regard, the Internet Social Forum will fight for “Net neutrality”. 

IT For Change Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh said, “In its current form, internet governance has not yet become a people's movement. The Internet is increasingly controlled by corporates.” 

Community owned broadband, data ownership, limits to copyright and including rural communities in the dialogue process are some of the issues that the forum seeks to address.

Rishab Bailey, Director (legal), Society For Knowledge Commons, added that such an initiative was significant as, at present, a lot of thought is going into setting up institutions for Internet governance. “We have to ensure a representative and democratic Internet governance. Internet is a global construct and it touches all our lives. As of now there are no concrete mechanisms to deal with issues pertaining to Internet governance. We have to make sure that Internet governance is a true bottoms up approach.” 

 


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From gurstein at gmail.com  Mon Jan 26 19:58:09 2015
From: gurstein at gmail.com (michael gurstein)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:58:09 -0800
Subject: [governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum
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Hi Peter,

Inline…
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Date:26/01/2015 23:11 (GMT+02:00) 
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org,michael gurstein 
Subject: Re:[governance] FW: Towards an Internet Social Forum


Hey Michael,

    I can see the passion behind ISF and which is a good idea but....can't these so called issues be address by existing civil society groups. I would say that the issues parmider, and others want to address can be address if the existing civil society groups can agree on a common ground.

[MG>] Yes the issues could probably be addressed in other ways but I’m not sure if there is common ground. Those involved with the JNC are concerned with traditional civil society issues particularly concerning social justice, democratic governance and of course human rights--not just human rights.  Others in CS have chosen for their own reasons to ignore social justice issues and democratic governance in their Internet Governance activities and positions.   

I could see very well that most of the people behind ISF aren't in support of NMI. 

[MG>] yes, and the reason for this is the same as the above in that is it is hard to see how the big business/elite/1% representation coming from the World Economic Forum can be reconciled with a democratically “governed” Internet. 

My questions is aren't we creating complexity for ourselves in the name of not letting WEF from controlling the internet? 

[MG>] possibly… but some degree of “complexity” may be the cost of not allowing the Internet and its profound impacts and influence into the future to be captured by (economic, political and security) elites/the 1% with little evident commitment to the public good, social justice or democratic governance beyond that which supports their own narrow private interests.

Do you think it is possible not allowing them getting involve?

[MG>] perhaps not, but it is necessary to ensure that there is an opportunity for democratic voices to be heard and if we don’t insist on measures towards social justice including (or perhaps particularly) through the Internet, the elites/1% will force us into an economic framework where a very very small elite control everything and the rest of us scramble to survive (the lessons of Greece should be on all of our minds these days…

I believe what we are all striving for is bottom up approach and involvement of every stakeholders participation and that's why we have some civil stakeholders on board to keep the NMI in the direction of bottom up approach.

[MG>] do you really think that one or two civil society representatives will have that kind of influence… that they will be able to withstand the power and wealth of the global economic and political elites and the glitter and enticements of the kind of manipulation that the roughly $1,000,000 start-up slush fund that the elites tossed in so casually, can achieve.  What is the likelihood that they can/would ensure that the Internet is governed in the interests of all of us… what we have already seen from the NMI is backroom dealing, shady and top down manipulation of appointments and representation, a more or less complete lack of transparency and no, even feeble, attempts at a broad base of accountability… The role of the CS representatives in the NMI however well-meaning they may be, is not to influence the outcomes but rather to legitimize the outcomes.

Also forming ISF, how do you intend steering NMI in good hope in favour of every stakeholders?.

[MG>] the ISF is not meant to “steer” the NMI but rather to work towards building a democratic, accountable and transparent framework of governance for the Internet, precisely what the NMI is not.

Hoping to hear from you.

[MG>] Best,

Mike

Peter.

On Jan 25, 2015 1:19 PM, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

Coverage of the ISF in an Indian daily

M

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/455369/towards-democratic-internet-governance.html


Towards democratic Internet governance


*	1 min read 
*	 

Shruthi H M, Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2015, DHNS:

The Internet might have pervaded the common man's life but its governance still remains in the hands of a few corporate giants. To counter this, civil society organisations propose democratic Internet governance. 

Though Google’s Eric Schmidt predicts the “disappearance of Internet into the background”, a group of organisations have set out to bring to fore voices that have remained in the background in spite of the Internet’s all pervasive nature.As the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2015 is in progress in Davos (Jan 21-24), civil society organisations have come together to create a global ‘Internet Social Forum’ countering the WEF's NETmundial initiative for Internet governance. The organisations aim to create an Internet space governed in public interest. 

Bengaluru-based organisation IT for Change will be an active part of this global forum, along with five other Indian organisations: Society For Knowledge Commons, All India Peoples Science Network, Free Software Movement of India, SLFC.in and Digital Empowrment Foundation. 

The Internet Social Forum will consist of civil society organisations from across the globe who believe that Internet governance should not be limited to the vested interests of corporate giants. Their endeavour is to put in place a “bottom's up” approach, where grassroots groups can have their say in regulating Internet space.

Civil organisations feel that the WEF’s global internet policy making and governance initiative the ‘NETmundial’, restricts itself to the voices of the global elite. The concept of WEF itself has been countered by the “World Social Forum” and the Internet Social Forum draws inspiration from it. In fact, the “preparatory process” of the forum is likely to be held in March 2015 in Tunis, during the World Social Forum meet.

When one searches for something on the Internet, the most popular links related to the subject appear at the top of the list. 

However, more often links that appear first are not guided by popularity but by the money invested by interested parties to ensure they are displayed on top. In this regard, the Internet Social Forum will fight for “Net neutrality”. 

IT For Change Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh said, “In its current form, internet governance has not yet become a people's movement. The Internet is increasingly controlled by corporates.” 

Community owned broadband, data ownership, limits to copyright and including rural communities in the dialogue process are some of the issues that the forum seeks to address.

Rishab Bailey, Director (legal), Society For Knowledge Commons, added that such an initiative was significant as, at present, a lot of thought is going into setting up institutions for Internet governance. “We have to ensure a representative and democratic Internet governance. Internet is a global construct and it touches all our lives. As of now there are no concrete mechanisms to deal with issues pertaining to Internet governance. We have to make sure that Internet governance is a true bottoms up approach.” 

 


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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Tue Jan 27 08:25:57 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:25:57 -0400
Subject: [governance] Fwd: [civic] Launching Open Data Day Coalition
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May be of interest?
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Launching Open Data Day Coalition Micro-Grant Scheme: Apply
Today!
http://blog.okfn.org/2015/01/26/launching-open-data-day-coalition-micro-grant-scheme-apply-today/

[note it says: In the Caribbean, the Caribbean Open Institute will handle
the
process.]


January 26, 2015 in open knowledge
OPEN DATA DAY 2015 is coming and a coalition of partners have come together
to
provide a limited number of micro-grants designed to support communities
organise ODD activities all over the world !

Open Data Day (ODD) is one of the most exciting events of the year. As a
volunteer led event, with no organisation behind it, Open Data Day provides
the
perfect opportcaunity for communities all over the world to convene,
celebrate
and promote open data in ways most relevant to their fellow citizens. This
year,
Open Data Day will take place on Saturday, the 21st of February 2015 and a
coalition of partners have gotten together to help make the event bigger
(and
hopefully better) than its has ever been before!



While Open Data Day has always been a volunteer led initiative, organising
an
event often comes with quite a hefty price tag. From hiring a venue, to
securing
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storytellers, data wranglers and developers who donate their Saturday to
ensuring that open data empowers citizens in their communities, there are
costs
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open
data, open knowledge and open access organisations who are interested in
providing support for communities organising ODD activities. This idea
emerged
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helped local organisers create an amazing event, exposing a number of new
people
to open data. This is exactly what we are trying to achieve on Open Data
Day!

As such, this year, for the first time ever, we are proud to announce the
availability of a limited number of micro grants of up to $300 to help
communities organise amazing events without incurring prohibitive personal
costs. The coalition will also provide in-kind support in the form
mentorship
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effective at engaging new communities!

The coalition consists of the following organisations (in alphabetical
order):
Caribbean Open Institute, Code for Africa, DAL, E-Democracy, ILDA, NDI, Open
Access Button, Open Coalition, Open Institute, Open Knowledge, Sunlight
Foundation and Wikimedia UK. Want to join? Read on.

ODD2

Applying for a Microgrant!

Any group or organisation from any country can apply. Given the difference
focus
of our partners, grants in Latin America will be handled and awarded by
ILDA. In
the Caribbean, the Caribbean Open Institute will handle the process.
Finally,
The Partnership for Open Data will focus on other low to mid income
countries.
Of course, in order to ensure that we are able to award the maximum number
of
grants, we will coordinate this effort!

You can find the application form here. The deadline to apply is February
3rd
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Currently, we have one micro grant, provided by The Sunlight Foundation,
for a
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We
would love to provide additional support for groups organising in any
country;
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funding
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(see below how to join the coalition). We will make sure to spread the word
far
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How to Apply for an Open Data Day Micro Grant

If you are organising an event and would like additional support, apply
here. If
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details and proof of purchase. If it is not possible for you to make the
purchases in advance and be reimbursed, we will be sure to find an
alternative
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Is this your first Open Data Day event? Fear not! In addition to the grant
itself, our coalition of partners is here to provide you with the support
you
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Open Data Day wiki.

After the event, event organisers will be asked to share a short blog post
or
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attended, are you planning on organising additional events? We’d also love
to
hear about what you learned, what were the challenges and what you would
have
done differently?

You can publish this in any language but if possible, we would love an
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I you
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whether
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Finally, if you need inspiration for what to do on the day, we are building
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inspiration
or add your ideas and inspire others! For further inspiration and
information,
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From vanda at uol.com.br  Tue Jan 27 10:24:38 2015
From: vanda at uol.com.br (Vanda UOL)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:24:38 -0200
Subject: [governance] Invitation: Demystifying the IANA Stewardship
 Transition- where we are now #PTC15 Honolulu, Hawaii
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Thank you! 

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Sent from my iPhone

> On 18/01/2015, at 20:57, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> If you are at the Pacific Telecommunication Council PTC 15 Conference in Honolulu, I would like to invite you to join the discussion this afternoon at 3:30pm to 5:00pm on demystifying the IANA transition. For more information, visit: http://www.ptc.org/ptc15/program-and-attendees/complete-program/details.html?sid=128
> 
> Brief About the Session
> In March 2014, the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intention to transition the stewardship of the IANA functions to the Internet community.
> 
> Discussion on how this transition will take place has captured the imaginations of many in the Internet community worldwide as an assembled Coordination Group of global experts now seeks to guide the development of a transition plan.
> 
> In some quarters, the transition has been branded as "handing over control of the Internet". But in reality, what exactly is being transferred, and what does this all mean?
> 
> This session will explore the IANA stewardship transition, from the basics of the IANA function and how it fits in with ICANN, to the implications for network operators, businesses, governments and Internet users, look forward to how the process is likely to progress, and answer your questions to demystify what can appear as a complex proposition.
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From dogwallah at gmail.com  Tue Jan 27 12:01:46 2015
From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:01:46 -0600
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Internet Social Forum
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Quoting a CircleID piece by Philip Corwin:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150125_occupy_ig_internet_social_forum_targets_netmundial_initiative/

"The author is not familiar with most of the groups constituting ISF. As
always, a good rule for understanding true intent is "follow the money".
We'd find it illuminating to know where they get their funding and whether
any state actors are involved (and a colleague more familiar with the
global IG scene advises that at least several are indeed closely linked to
their national governments, and are unsurprisingly more favorable toward
the government-led multilateral approach on IG than the private sector
oriented MSM). So there is some question as to whether ISF is a genuine
grassroots Netizen movement — or a convergence of government-dominated
organizations pairing with "useful idiot
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot>” entities to pursue a broader
and more pernicious agenda of undermining the MSM and replacing it with a
UN-led, government-dominated one. "





On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global
Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:

> Quoted a Register piece written by Kieren McCarthy
> Hibernating NetMundial continues to rattle internet governance world
> reg.cx/2dZG <http://t.co/0D2vSUtqqf>
>
> As to NetMundial's three-month consultation period, that will seemingly be
> led by respected internet governance academic and ICANN Board member
> Wolfgang Kleinwachter. The NetMundial organizers did not reveal how much
> they will pay Kleinwachter to lend the initiative his credibility, but his
> first attempt to make the internet community learn to love the idea came in
> the form of a blog post
> <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/> at
> the start of the year.
>
>
>
> Le 24 janv. 2015 à 00:21, parminder a écrit :
>
>
> On Friday 23 January 2015 11:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>
> Hi Parminder,
>
>
> how the ISF is linked to the IGF?
>
>
> Hi Wolfgang
>
> One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one. One
> develops people's and civil society's positions on the key issue of the
> global Internet, the other is a place where such positions can enter into
> dialogue with holders of political and economic power - the governments and
> the corporate actors.
>
> Unless now the whole idea and concept of civil society - and along with
> those of people's movements, grassroots, activism, and so on - has been
> fully coopted in some people's mind with that of multistakeholderism
> (whatever one actually means by it, something that has remained notoriously
> unclear), the connection or link that you inquire about is extremely clear
> to me.
>
> Internet is not the first thing for which there has been felt a need for
> 'independently' forming a people's conception and set of hopes,
> expectations and demands - away from conclaves of power. There have been
> scores of others, and newer ones continue to arise. Accordingly if people's
> and civil society forums etc have been meaningful and needed in these
> areas, it is incumbent upon *those* who think they are *not needed* in the
> Internet space to explain why it is so, then the other way around.
>
> To put is somewhat flippantly, ISF is also a reaction of people who are
> fed up with an ongoing IG charade where for instance Fadi Chehade can with
> a straight face call the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative as the 'mother of all
> bottom -up processes' - even jokes require some plausibility limits!
>
> To take the example of one of the latest international global forums on a
> key global governance issue, the Lima meeting on climate change, you will
> perhaps know that parallel to it a people's meeting was held. Internet and
> its governance also needs such meetings, that is the simple logic of the
> Internet Social Forum. If you think that in the Internet's case, such
> meetings and forums are not needed, I would of course be curious to hear
> your case.
>
> I am happy to engage further with you on this issue, and answer your
> questions.
>
> Lastly, let me invite you to join the ISF process. We work under the World
> Social Forum (WSF) process and principles - whereby its meetings are open
> to all civil society participants subject to very inimum conditions that
> are listed on their website.
>
> Further, if the discussion is to now turn to the WSF, its meaning,
> relevance, etc, I am as happy to engage with you on that subject.
>
> Regards, parminder
>
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>
> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder
>
> Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01
>
> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>
> Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum
>
>  Enclosed Spanish version... parminder
>
>
>
> On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
>
> - With a call to occupy the Internet
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>
>
> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
>
> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
>
> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
>
> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
>
> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
>
> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
>
> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>
>
> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
>
> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
>
> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
>
> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
>
> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
>
> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
>
> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
>
> counter initiative to the WEF.
>
>
> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
>
> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
>
> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
>
> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
>
> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
>
> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
>
> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>
>
> "While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
>
> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
>
> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
>
> privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public
>
> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
>
> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
>
> ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
>
> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
>
> initiative.
>
>
> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
>
> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
>
> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
>
> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
>
> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
>
> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
>
> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
>
> community to generate and share.
>
>
> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's call for a 'Magna
>
> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
>
> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
>
> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
>
> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
>
> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>
>
> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
>
> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
>
> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
>
> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
>
> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
>
> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
>
> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
>
> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
>
> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
>
> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
>
> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
>
> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
>
> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>
>
> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
>
> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
>
> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
>
> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
>
> People's Internet Manifesto.
>
>
> Just Net Coalition, Global
>
> P2P Foundation, Global
>
> Transnational Institute, Global
>
> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
>
> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
>
> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
>
> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
>
> Knowledge Commons, India
>
> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
>
> SLFC.in, India
>
> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
>
> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
>
> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
>
> Canada IT for Change, India
>
> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
>
> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
>
> Free Press, USA
>
> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
>
> Other News, Italy
>
> Free Software Movement of India
>
> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
>
> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
>
> All India Peoples Science Network, India
>
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>
>
> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
>
> information or clarification.
>
>
> Or the following regional contacts:
>
>
> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>
>
>
> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
>
> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
>
>
>
>
>
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From chlebrum at gmail.com  Tue Jan 27 12:48:07 2015
From: chlebrum at gmail.com (chlebrum .)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:48:07 +0100
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Internet Social Forum
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It is funny to see an ICANN lobbyist  cannot believe that we can mobilize
for something else than money (hey yes, we pay oneself our travels in the
real civil society or what we are not submarines governments (and wicked
governments wicked, obviously).

In fact, he discovers ... real people

Chantal Lebrument
​Courriel: c <lebrument at open-root.eu>hlebrum at gmail.com
Mob: +33 6 8369 5460

2015-01-27 18:01 GMT+01:00 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>:

> Quoting a CircleID piece by Philip Corwin:
>
>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150125_occupy_ig_internet_social_forum_targets_netmundial_initiative/
>
> "The author is not familiar with most of the groups constituting ISF. As
> always, a good rule for understanding true intent is "follow the money".
> We'd find it illuminating to know where they get their funding and whether
> any state actors are involved (and a colleague more familiar with the
> global IG scene advises that at least several are indeed closely linked to
> their national governments, and are unsurprisingly more favorable toward
> the government-led multilateral approach on IG than the private sector
> oriented MSM). So there is some question as to whether ISF is a genuine
> grassroots Netizen movement — or a convergence of government-dominated
> organizations pairing with "useful idiot
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot>” entities to pursue a
> broader and more pernicious agenda of undermining the MSM and replacing it
> with a UN-led, government-dominated one. "
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global
> Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:
>
>> Quoted a Register piece written by Kieren McCarthy
>> Hibernating NetMundial continues to rattle internet governance world
>> reg.cx/2dZG <http://t.co/0D2vSUtqqf>
>>
>> As to NetMundial's three-month consultation period, that will seemingly
>> be led by respected internet governance academic and ICANN Board member
>> Wolfgang Kleinwachter. The NetMundial organizers did not reveal how much
>> they will pay Kleinwachter to lend the initiative his credibility, but his
>> first attempt to make the internet community learn to love the idea came in
>> the form of a blog post
>> <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/> at
>> the start of the year.
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 24 janv. 2015 à 00:21, parminder a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On Friday 23 January 2015 11:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>>
>> Hi Parminder,
>>
>>
>> how the ISF is linked to the IGF?
>>
>>
>> Hi Wolfgang
>>
>> One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one. One
>> develops people's and civil society's positions on the key issue of the
>> global Internet, the other is a place where such positions can enter into
>> dialogue with holders of political and economic power - the governments and
>> the corporate actors.
>>
>> Unless now the whole idea and concept of civil society - and along with
>> those of people's movements, grassroots, activism, and so on - has been
>> fully coopted in some people's mind with that of multistakeholderism
>> (whatever one actually means by it, something that has remained notoriously
>> unclear), the connection or link that you inquire about is extremely clear
>> to me.
>>
>> Internet is not the first thing for which there has been felt a need for
>> 'independently' forming a people's conception and set of hopes,
>> expectations and demands - away from conclaves of power. There have been
>> scores of others, and newer ones continue to arise. Accordingly if people's
>> and civil society forums etc have been meaningful and needed in these
>> areas, it is incumbent upon *those* who think they are *not needed* in the
>> Internet space to explain why it is so, then the other way around.
>>
>> To put is somewhat flippantly, ISF is also a reaction of people who are
>> fed up with an ongoing IG charade where for instance Fadi Chehade can with
>> a straight face call the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative as the 'mother of all
>> bottom -up processes' - even jokes require some plausibility limits!
>>
>> To take the example of one of the latest international global forums on a
>> key global governance issue, the Lima meeting on climate change, you will
>> perhaps know that parallel to it a people's meeting was held. Internet and
>> its governance also needs such meetings, that is the simple logic of the
>> Internet Social Forum. If you think that in the Internet's case, such
>> meetings and forums are not needed, I would of course be curious to hear
>> your case.
>>
>> I am happy to engage further with you on this issue, and answer your
>> questions.
>>
>> Lastly, let me invite you to join the ISF process. We work under the
>> World Social Forum (WSF) process and principles - whereby its meetings are
>> open to all civil society participants subject to very inimum conditions
>> that are listed on their website.
>>
>> Further, if the discussion is to now turn to the WSF, its meaning,
>> relevance, etc, I am as happy to engage with you on that subject.
>>
>> Regards, parminder
>>
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>
>> Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder
>>
>> Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01
>>
>> An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>>
>> Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum
>>
>>  Enclosed Spanish version... parminder
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>>
>> Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
>>
>> - With a call to occupy the Internet
>>
>>
>> PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.
>>
>>
>> A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
>>
>> announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
>>
>> bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
>>
>> from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
>>
>> possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
>>
>> centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
>>
>> socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!
>>
>>
>> The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
>>
>> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
>>
>> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
>>
>> the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
>>
>> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
>>
>> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
>>
>> direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
>>
>> counter initiative to the WEF.
>>
>>
>> The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
>>
>> social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
>>
>> challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
>>
>> the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
>>
>> process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
>>
>> Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
>>
>> planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.
>>
>>
>> "While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
>>
>> future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
>>
>> not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
>>
>> privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public
>>
>> interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
>>
>> organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
>>
>> ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
>>
>> the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
>>
>> initiative.
>>
>>
>> The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
>>
>> a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
>>
>> underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
>>
>> will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
>>
>> It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
>>
>> architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
>>
>> knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
>>
>> community to generate and share.
>>
>>
>> Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's call for a 'Magna
>>
>> Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
>>
>> a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
>>
>> all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
>>
>> techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
>>
>> democracy movements and social justice activists.
>>
>>
>> This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
>>
>> Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
>>
>> December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
>>
>> critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
>>
>> the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
>>
>> shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
>>
>> technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
>>
>> seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
>>
>> governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
>>
>> private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
>>
>> Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
>>
>> people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
>>
>> engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.
>>
>>
>> The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
>>
>> the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
>>
>> immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
>>
>> over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
>>
>> People's Internet Manifesto.
>>
>>
>> Just Net Coalition, Global
>>
>> P2P Foundation, Global
>>
>> Transnational Institute, Global
>>
>> Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
>>
>> America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
>>
>> Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
>>
>> Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
>>
>> Knowledge Commons, India
>>
>> Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
>>
>> SLFC.in, India
>>
>> CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
>>
>> GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
>>
>> Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
>>
>> Canada IT for Change, India
>>
>> Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
>>
>> Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
>>
>> Free Press, USA
>>
>> Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
>>
>> Other News, Italy
>>
>> Free Software Movement of India
>>
>> Global_Geneva, Switzerland
>>
>> Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
>>
>> All India Peoples Science Network, India
>>
>> Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA
>>
>>
>> Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
>>
>> information or clarification.
>>
>>
>> Or the following regional contacts:
>>
>>
>> Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>
>> Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>
>> Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>
>> North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>
>> South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>
>>
>>
>>
>> This press release is also available online, e.g. at
>>
>> http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Tue Jan 27 19:39:15 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:39:15 -0400
Subject: [governance] Fwd: [bestbits] WSIS+10 Review - Info-sharing & CS
 coordination event [March 2, Paris]
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For your information.
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Dear friends,

On Monday, March 2, in Paris, a group of civil society organisations -
Global Partners Digital (GPD), Association for Progressive Communications
(APC), Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), International Federation
of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Internet Democracy
Project, and KICTANet – in collaboration with the Internet Society (ISOC) -
will be holding a *1-day event focused on the WSIS+10 Overall Review*.

The purpose of the event will be to raise awareness of the review process
and to facilitate coordination and strategy development for effective civil
society engagement. While principally aimed at coordinating civil society
efforts in engaging in the WSIS, part of the event will be dedicated to
facilitating cross-community dialogue with representatives from the
technical community, the business sector and governments. The event will be
held on the margins of UNESCO's CONNECTing the Dots
<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/netconference2015> conference.

A *briefing note* with basic background information about the WSIS and its
review can be found here:
http://bestbits.net/wsis10-overall-review-briefing-note/. We hope this is
useful and welcome any feedback.

To give us an idea of interest for this event among civil society, please *let
us know if you would be interested in attending* by RSVP-ing via this link:
http://bestbits.net/events/wsis10-coordination/ Please note that limited
funding for civil society from developing countries will be made available.

A draft agenda and relevant logistical details will be circulated closer to
the date.

If any organisations are interested in helping organise this event please
let me know off-list or by replying to this email.

With warm wishes,

*Lea Kaspar*

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From williams.deirdre at gmail.com  Tue Jan 27 19:54:36 2015
From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com (Deirdre Williams)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:54:36 -0400
Subject: [governance] Fwd: [latinoamericann] Fwd: [discuss] Internet Social
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In the confusion of the various different lists I am not sure that this
announcement made it to the IGC.
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Date: 22 January 2015 at 14:17
Subject: [latinoamericann] Fwd: [discuss] Internet Social Forum
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FYI

Inicio del mensaje reenviado:

*Fecha: *22 de enero de 2015, 8:47:14 GMT-5
*De: *Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
*Para: *discuss at 1net.org
*Asunto: **[discuss] Internet Social Forum*

Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum
– With a call to occupy the Internet

PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.

A group of civil society organisations from around the world has
announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate
bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration
from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is
possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing
centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for
socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!

The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the
recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and
the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a
counter initiative to the WEF.

The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and
social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that
challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how
the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory
process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in
Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is
planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.

“While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the
future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should
not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the
privileged terrain WEF occupies – in the end it is this wider public
interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are
organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be
ignored in the corridors of power,” said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of
the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the
initiative.

The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as
a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be
underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It
will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.
It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its
architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,
knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world
community to generate and share.

Somewhat similar to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee’s call for a ‘Magna
Carta for the Internet', the Internet Social Forum proposes to develop
a People's Internet Manifesto, through a bottom-up process involving
all concerned social groups and movements, in different areas, from
techies and ICT-for-development actors to media reform groups,
democracy movements and social justice activists.

This year will also see the 10 year high-level review of the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in New York in
December. As a full-scale review of a major UN summit, this will be a
critical global political event. Since the WSIS, held in 2003 and 2005,
the Internet, and what it means socially, has undergone a paradigm
shift. The WSIS witnessed active engagement of civil society and
technical groups as well as of business. However, currently, there
seems to be an deliberate attempt to sideline this UN-led initiative on
governance issues of the information society and Internet in favour of
private, big-business-dominated initiatives like the WEF's Net Mundial
Initiative. The Internet Social Forum, while remaining primarily a
people's forum, will also seek to channel global civil society's
engagement towards the WSIS +10 review.

The following organisations form the initial group that is proposing
the Internet Social Forum, and many more are expected to join in the
immediate future. This is an open call to progressive groups from all
over the world to join this initiative, and participate in developing a
People's Internet Manifesto.

Just Net Coalition, Global
P2P Foundation, Global
Transnational Institute, Global
Forum on Communication for Integration of our America, Regional (Latin
America) Arab NGO Network for Development, Regional
Agencia Latinoamericana de Información, Regional
Alternative Informatics Association, Turkey
Knowledge Commons, India
Open-Root/EUROLINC, France
SLFC.in, India
CODE-IP Trust, Kenya
GodlyGlobal.org, Switzerland
Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training,
Canada IT for Change, India
Association for Proper Internet Governance, Switzerland
Computer Professionals Union, Philippines
Free Press, USA
Advocates of Science and Technology for the People, Philippines
Other News, Italy
Free Software Movement of India
Global_Geneva, Switzerland
Solidarius (Solidarity Economy Network), Italy
All India Peoples Science Network, India
Institute for Local Self-Reliance - Community Broadband Networks, USA

Please contact us at secretariat at InternetSocialForum.net for further
information or clarification.

Or the following regional contacts:

Africa:        Alex Gakaru <AlexG at InternetSocialForum.net>
Asia:          Rishab Bailey <RishabB at InternetSocialForum.net>
Europe:        Norbert Bollow <NorbertB at InternetSocialForum.net>
North America: Micheal Gurstein <MichealG at InternetSocialForum.net>
South America: Sally Burch <SallyB at InternetSocialForum.net>


This press release is also available online, e.g. at
http://justnetcoalition.org/ISF

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From gurstein at gmail.com  Wed Jan 28 11:00:52 2015
From: gurstein at gmail.com (michael gurstein)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:00:52 -0800
Subject: [bestbits] [governance] Internet Social Forum-->Jeremy's
 Jeremiad and Philip's Phillipic
Message-ID: <01e601d03b13$982da510$c888ef30$@gmail.com>

McTim (or should I say (Sen.) McCarthy…

 

I’m hoping that folks are wise enough not to think that if a lie is repeated often enough and loudly enough and particularly if it can be referenced to a blogpost with a reference to a (slightly deranged err over the top) blogpost that provides significantly distorted and selective references to a further set of documents then somehow it has a reality beyond simply self-interested commentary (sigh, but such is the Internet… 

 

And now to:

 

Jeremy’s Jeremiad <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiad>  and Phillip’s Philippic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippic> 

 

As they say the worst insult is to be ignored, and no publicity is bad publicity… so thanks folks for spreading the word about the JNC and the ISF.

                                                                                                                                             

That Philip got it wrong following Jeremy’s wild distortions and misrepresentations shouldn’t be too surprising.  I’ll leave a detailed cross referencing between reality and what Jeremy has oozed out to others with a more Talmudic bent but just to say that I’m expecting a libel action to be forthcoming from my PM Stephen Harper at the possibility that he might be funding my contributions to the JNC or the ISF (I would expect similar rumblings from various of the other “state actors” to which he might so circuitously and ponderously be referring).

 

But just to note—it is only in the minds of the profoundly anti-democratic (and historically illiterate) that statements to the effect that “The right to make Internet-related public policies lies exclusively with those who legitimately and directly represent people” is (mis) represented as calling for governance solely by and through existing governmental (or inter-governmental) structures or more specifically existing and very often undemocratic and unrepresentative governments and state structures/actors (whoever they may be).  

 

M

 

 

 

 

 

From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of McTim
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:02 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal
Cc: parminder; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net; discuss at 1net.org >> 1Net List
Subject: Re: [bestbits] [governance] Internet Social Forum

 

Quoting a CircleID piece by Philip Corwin:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150125_occupy_ig_internet_social_forum_targets_netmundial_initiative/

"The author is not familiar with most of the groups constituting ISF. As always, a good rule for understanding true intent is "follow the money". We'd find it illuminating to know where they get their funding and whether any state actors are involved (and a colleague more familiar with the global IG scene advises that at least several are indeed closely linked to their national governments, and are unsurprisingly more favorable toward the government-led multilateral approach on IG than the private sector oriented MSM). So there is some question as to whether ISF is a genuine grassroots Netizen movement — or a convergence of government-dominated organizations pairing with "useful idiot <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot> ” entities to pursue a broader and more pernicious agenda of undermining the MSM and replacing it with a UN-led, government-dominated one. "




 

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:

Quoted a Register piece written by Kieren McCarthy

Hibernating NetMundial continues to rattle internet governance world  <http://t.co/0D2vSUtqqf> reg.cx/2dZG

 

As to NetMundial's three-month consultation period, that will seemingly be led by respected internet governance academic and ICANN Board member Wolfgang Kleinwachter. The NetMundial organizers did not reveal how much they will pay Kleinwachter to lend the initiative his credibility, but his first attempt to make the internet community learn to love the idea came in the form of a  <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150103_internet_governance_outlook_2015_2_processes_many_venues_4_baskets/> blog post at the start of the year.

 

 

Le 24 janv. 2015 à 00:21, parminder a écrit :

 


On Friday 23 January 2015 11:31 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:

Hi Parminder,

 

how the ISF is linked to the IGF?


Hi Wolfgang

One is a civil society forum, the other a multistakeholder one. One develops people's and civil society's positions on the key issue of the global Internet, the other is a place where such positions can enter into dialogue with holders of political and economic power - the governments and the corporate actors.

Unless now the whole idea and concept of civil society - and along with those of people's movements, grassroots, activism, and so on - has been fully coopted in some people's mind with that of multistakeholderism (whatever one actually means by it, something that has remained notoriously unclear), the connection or link that you inquire about is extremely clear to me.

Internet is not the first thing for which there has been felt a need for 'independently' forming a people's conception and set of hopes, expectations and demands - away from conclaves of power. There have been scores of others, and newer ones continue to arise. Accordingly if people's and civil society forums etc have been meaningful and needed in these areas, it is incumbent upon *those* who think they are *not needed* in the Internet space to explain why it is so, then the other way around.

To put is somewhat flippantly, ISF is also a reaction of people who are fed up with an ongoing IG charade where for instance Fadi Chehade can with a straight face call the WEF's Net Mundial Initiative as the 'mother of all bottom -up processes' - even jokes require some plausibility limits!

To take the example of one of the latest international global forums on a key global governance issue, the Lima meeting on climate change, you will perhaps know that parallel to it a people's meeting was held. Internet and its governance also needs such meetings, that is the simple logic of the Internet Social Forum. If you think that in the Internet's case, such meetings and forums are not needed, I would of course be curious to hear your case.

I am happy to engage further with you on this issue, and answer your questions.

Lastly, let me invite you to join the ISF process. We work under the World Social Forum (WSF) process and principles - whereby its meetings are open to all civil society participants subject to very inimum conditions that are listed on their website.

Further, if the discussion is to now turn to the WSF, its meaning, relevance, etc, I am as happy to engage with you on that subject.

Regards, parminder



 

Wolfgang

 

 

 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org im Auftrag von parminder

Gesendet: Do 22.01.2015 17:01

An: governance at lists.igcaucus.org

Betreff: Re: [governance] Internet Social Forum

 Enclosed Spanish version... parminder

 

 

On Thursday 22 January 2015 07:06 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:

Global Civil Society launches the Internet Social Forum

- With a call to occupy the Internet

 

PRESS RELEASE. Geneva, Switzerland, 22st January, 2015.

 

A group of civil society organisations from around the world has

announced the Internet Social Forum, to bring together and articulate

bottom-up perspectives on the 'Internet we want'. Taking inspiration

from the World Social Forum, and its clarion call, 'Another World is

possible', the group seeks to draw urgent attention to the increasing

centralization of the Internet for extraction of monopoly rents and for

socio-political control, asserting that 'Another Internet is possible'!

 

The Internet Social Forum will inter alia offer an alternative to the

recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on

global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and

the 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social

Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who

believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a

direct parallel to the launch of the World Social Forum in 2001 as a

counter initiative to the WEF.

 

The Internet Social Forum will reach out to grassroots groups and

social movements across the world, catalysing a groundswell that

challenges the entrenched elite interests that currently control how

the Internet is managed. The Internet Social Forum's preparatory

process will kick off during the World Social Forum to take place in

Tunis, March 24th to 28th, 2015. The Internet Social Forum itself is

planned to be held either late 2015 or early 2016.

 

"While the world's biggest companies have every right to debate the

future of the Internet, we are concerned that their perspectives should

not drown out those of ordinary people who have no access to the

privileged terrain WEF occupies - in the end it is this wider public

interest that must be paramount in governing the Internet. We are

organising the Internet Social Forum to make sure their voices can't be

ignored in the corridors of power," said Norbert Bollow, Co-Convenor of

the Just Net Coalition, which is one of the groups involved in the

initiative.

 

The Internet Social Forum, and its preparatory process, is intended as

a space to vision and build the 'Internet we want'. It will be

underpinned by values of democracy, human rights and social justice. It

will stand for participatory policy making and promote community media.

It will seek an Internet that is truly decentralized in its

architecture and based on people's full rights to data, information,

knowledge and other 'commons' that the Internet has enabled the world

c