[governance] Parminder's nomination

[parminder]

Hi All

The linked doc carries most of the details required by the 4 question
format, but I thought one question may not be fully or at least directly
addressed. And it may also be one of the most important ones. I have
therefore updated the doc by adding the following paragraph. Please let
me know if any clarification or further information is needed.  I
believe that the stand/ proposals made by civil society participants
should be public and they should also commit to respond to clarification
and other questions, and be ready to undertake a debate, about which I
hear some positive views on this list. This is my primary purpose for
posting this, and I very much comend the CCWG for putting forward this
important question.

(begins)

_*Substantive proposals or a vision on “how to further implement
enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”*_

A lot of the text above tends to describe the vision I have in this
regard. I will briefly summarise it here. When institutional form –
whether extant or proposed new – becomes controversial, as the
appropriate mechanism for addressing the much needed global Internet
policies has become, we may need to start from the start. Function, in
such a case, shouldprecede form, as is held to be the normal
organisational wisdom. We have by now a good idea of the function. The
first version of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, and the
follow-up CSTD secretariat report, did a good job of mapping global
Internet related policy space. This may need to be worked upon a little
more, especially in terms of bunching issues along institutional
requirements, which is the work that the new group should begin with.
Further, we have existing institutions like OECD's Committee on Digital
Economy Policy, and Council of Europe's Steering Committee on Media and
Information Society (and probably other supra-national agencies doing
such work which I have not tracked), whose excellent work provides a
very good and ever-growing list of international Internet-related public
policy issues. Once, we are over this hump, and there is an agreement
that there indeed exist very important global Internet-related public
policy issues, it should not be difficult to look for and find the
appropriate form. Like for all important functions of our social lives,
the form that is agreed upon may not be perfect, but as long at it is
appreciated that key policy issues do need a global level addressing, it
should not be too difficult to move towards the most appropriate one,
within the possible institutional forms. In this regard, the UN's long
history of innovative new institutional forms (after all, the IGF came
out if it) and the high degree of multistakeholder participativeness
that otherwise characterises the Internet governance space together
provide an excellent background to make progress. I am sure that this
group will achieve what it has set out to achieve. If we even now fail
to find the appropriate institutional mechanism to adequately address
the myriad, urgent and important global Internet-related policy issues,
the coming generations would not be kind to us in remembering our
political role at this key formative time of the new social paradigm of
an Internet-mediated society.

(ends)

parminder


On Monday 14 March 2016 11:18 AM, anita wrote:
> Friends,
>
> IT for Change will like to propose the candidacy of Parminder to be a
> civil society participant of the re-enacted Working Group on Enhanced
> Cooperation.
>
> Parminder has been very active in enhanced cooperation debates since
> the very beginning. He has also played an important role in keeping
> the concept alive, developing various proposals around it.
>
> Parminder was the first to demand that a CSTD Working Group on
> Enhanced Cooperation be set up. And it is through his contributions
> that the subject of Enhanced Cooperation was discussed for the first
> time at the 2008 IGF.
>
> We have put together a note on his suitability for this role, which
> can be accessed here http://itforchange.net/Parminder_bio_WGEC-2.pdf
>
> Please let me know if you need any further information or clarification.
>
> Regards
>
> anita
> -- 
>
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