[governance] Parminder's nomination

Thomas Lowenhaupt toml at communisphere.com
Mon Mar 14 14:32:18 EDT 2016 

I'm uncertain if I prefer the jfc morfin or federico nier-fischer 
endorsements. So let me +1 both of those in adding my endorsement of 
Parminder.

Sincerely,

Tom Lowenhaupt


I second this nomination. Not always in agreement with Parminder, but he 
is active, knowledgeable and determined.
jfc morfin
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On 3/14/2016 1:26 PM, federico nier-fischer wrote:
> Hola muy estimada lista de colegas,
> please let me express full endorsement of Parminder's candidacy, not 
> just because of his creative and excellent performance in the context 
> of our list ... it is also because of his brilliant intellectuality 
> together with the strong engagement defending basic human rights as he 
> has demonstrated in so many discussions and publications. His 
> socio-cultural background in Asia/India will allow him best to fight 
> for basically democratic ways to share and represent the interests of 
> so dynamic, complex, multifacetic and pluricultural civil societies - 
> that means to really make use of the unique potential of Intenet for 
> social, economic, cultural and human development. On this point I 
> explicitly express my full solidarity with the "Substantive proposals 
> ... how to further implement
> enhancend cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda"!!!
> Keep on doing such good work! (or hasta la victoria siempre?) ...
>
> free lance journalist and former lecturer at the Universities of 
> Salzburg and Vienna, Austria
>
> Am Mo, 14. Mär 2016, um 17:01, schrieb 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”*_
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>> 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.
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>> (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
>>> -- 
>>> *Anita Gurumurthy*| Executive Director
>>> IT for Change <http://www.itforchange.net/>
>>> (/In special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC)/
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