AW: [governance] Internet Social Forum

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The last Kieren McCarthy opus…

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Hibernating NetMundial continues to rattle internet governance world
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​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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