[governance] Parminder's nomination

Raoul Plommer plommer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 04:49:03 EDT 2016


Yeay to Parminder! :)

On 14 March 2016 at 18:32, Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com> wrote:

> 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
> http://xlib.re
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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.
>
>
>
>
> (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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