[governance] Parminder's nomination

Tue Mar 15 10:31:25 EDT 2016

As for me, I'm completely certain to add Parminder to the CS represntatives in the CSTD WG. Parminder has brought some "fresh air" in the debate upon IG, giving the word governance a democratic dimension and reference.   

thanks for that, Parminder !

Warmest regards

Jean-Lopuis Fullsack

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>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.
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> Sincerely,
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> Tom Lowenhaupt
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> I second this nomination. Not always in agreement with Parminder, but he is active, knowledgeable and determined. 
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On 3/14/2016 1:26 PM, federico nier-fischer wrote:
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Hola muy estimada lista de colegas,
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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
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enhancend cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda"!!!
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Keep on doing such good work! (or hasta la victoria siempre?) ... 
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free lance journalist and former lecturer at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, Austria 
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Am Mo, 14. Mär 2016, um 17:01, schrieb parminder:
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Hi All
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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. 
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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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parminder 
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On Monday 14 March 2016 11:18 AM, anita wrote:
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Friends,
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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.
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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. 
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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. 
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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
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Please let me know if you need any further information or clarification.
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Regards
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anita
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