[governance] India

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Multistakeholder is not new.  Kapil Sibal emphasised it during his keynote at a DSCI industry conference I was at.  I recall seeing you on a panel there so I am sure you saw it too.

Neither is cooperation with the US and a variety of other countries on a fairly wide range of issues.


> On 06-Jul-2015, at 1:17 pm, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> Some of you may have read reports on India's new turn <http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-06-23/news/63746235_1_icann-gom-special-arrangement> with regard to global IG, towards focussing on bilateral cooperation with the US. (Brazil too seems to be doing a similar thing.) It would certainly have a significant bearing on its how much energy it may correspondingly invest in UN based forums or possibilities, though the exact impact may be difficult to judge at this stage.
> 
> As perhaps can be expected, I have written criticising this new turn as coming from lack of appreciation of the issues at stake. Please see below.
> 
> http://thewire.in/2015/07/06/why-is-india-a-follower-in-cyberspace-when-it-can-lead/ <http://thewire.in/2015/07/06/why-is-india-a-follower-in-cyberspace-when-it-can-lead/>
> 
> Here are some voices from Indian civil society that see this new turn in a rather positive light. In fact I wrote partly in response to these two articles and quote them.
> 
>  <http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-06-23/news/63746235_1_icann-gom-special-arrangement>http://thewire.in/2015/06/22/indias-new-multistakeholder-line-could-be-a-gamechanger-in-global-cyberpolitics/ <http://thewire.in/2015/06/22/indias-new-multistakeholder-line-could-be-a-gamechanger-in-global-cyberpolitics/>
> 
> http://thewire.in/2015/06/24/the-i-in-the-internet-must-also-stand-for-india/ <http://thewire.in/2015/06/24/the-i-in-the-internet-must-also-stand-for-india/>
> 
> 
> As the real geo-economic contours of global Internet power become clearer, countries like India and Brazil will have to again change their tack, but they would have lost a lot of momentum. Very unfortunate for all developing countries, because without these leaders there is not much to be expected on global Internet governance for developing countries as a group. 
> 
> Among developing countries, China is the only one that is comfortably placed and knows what it is doing. This is due to its unique political and as well as economic control over its own Internet. China currently does not see great value in seeking strong global IG regimes, because it is anyway able to get all that it wants. Plus, in absence of strong global IG regimes, it is the Chinese domestic IG model that  becomes increasingly more appealing to developing countries and China can help them with it, in the process drawing various kinds of advantages. There are news of a recent South Africa and China agreement which may go towards some such direction. 
> 
> parminder 
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