[Governance] Inviting JNC members and friends to a workshop on JNC's new directions of work

[parminder]

T

o be (constructively) provocative, let me call the below as an exercise
in exploring post-multistakeholderism models of participatory digital
policy making, since MS ism is mostly corporate captured now: ... Worth
some collective thought perhaps. We welcome your engagement. parminder


On 04/12/21 3:22 pm, parminder wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> The Just Net Coalition (JNC) is doing a 2.5 hours event, consisting of
> 3 panels, on ***"Digital policy making from below -- Ask the impacted
> sectors first"*, on *December 6th*, from 09.30 to 12.00 UTC. Those at
> the venue of the Internet Governance Forum in Katowice, Poland, the
> physical place will be Ballroom A. 
>
> As will be clear from the workshop note below, and enclosed, the event
> is around discussing *a new paradigm of digital policy development*,
> which in our view should be the best way of discovering and anchoring
> public interest with respect to our digital future.
>
> In pursuance of this belief of JNC, which is still shaping up, and
> this event is a part of that exercise, it is also expected that JNC
> will re-orient itself more consciously to this new direction in its
> work -- developing the required networks of civil society groups, from
> inside and outside digital arena, and proposing and advocating for
> institutions that would best enable and facilitate this new context
> and the needs of the proposed new paradigm of digital policy making. 
>
> The event should therefore be interesting and useful for *all JNC
> members and friends*, as well as *all those who grapple with*
> *institutional issues around how to best develop digital policies*, so
> key to humanity's future.
>
> We invite all of you to attend. Instructions on how to attend are in
> the workshop note. For those never been to an IGF and/or not
> registered for this one, please do *register right away - -meaning
> today* - -to be able to participate.
>
> See you at the discussions.
>
> parminder
>
>
> /*Digital Policy Making from Below – Ask the Impacted Sectors First*/
>
>
> *Hybrid****e**vent organized by Just Net Coalition at **the*
>
>
> *16th **United National Internet Governance Forum (IGF)*
>
> *December 06, 09.30-12.00 UTC*
>
>
> *Ballroom A (onsite) /Online *
>
>
> The Just Net Coalition
> <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj-tpTnuMX0AhXOQTABHY9sA10QFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustnetcoalition.org%2F&usg=AOvVaw3GQ88UYHKCtGWXIFVUd0Mk>(JNC)
> invites you to our hybridevent, ‘/*Digital Policy Making from Below –
> Ask the Impacted Sectors First’*/, taking place on December 6^th 2021,
> from 09.30 to 12.00 UTC.
>
>
> JNC has been conveningregular events at the UN Internet Governance
> Forum’s (IGF) annual meetings, bringing key contemporary issues in
> digital justice, as well asJNC’s work and journey, intoa public
> discussion. At the last in-person meeting, at the IGF Berlin in
> December 2019, we released the _JNC Manifesto for Digital Justice_
> <https://justnetcoalition.org/digital-justice-manifesto>. In 2020, our
> virtual session at the IGFon‘Digital Justice Conversations’, witha
> keynote from Saskia Sassen,saw a renewed commitment and
> dialoguetowards a _Digital New Deal_
> <https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/>. This year, the IGF will
> be held at Katowice, Poland, in a hybrid formant and we convene again
> to push the needle on aprogressive agenda for digital justice.
>
> It is crucial to open up avenues and create spaces for organizations
> and civil society from sectorsthat are actually impacted by the
> ‘digital’ – health, education, agriculture, labor, trade, finance,
> media, etc., that enable them toinfluenceand shapedigital policies.
> They should be able to engage with central digital policy issues such
> as 'who owns data’, 'what are the appropriate rules of platform
> management’, what is ‘just and fair AI', etc. Such ‘sectoral actors’
> need to be put intoa sustained dialogue with actors in the digital
> arena on digital policy issues. This has to be undertakenin a manner
> that respects and employs their respective competences to together
> determine what is public interest in a digital society. This we think
> must bethe future of how digital policy is made.
>
> Just Net Coalition plans to orient itself towards building such
> possibilities, and appropriate networks and institutions, for
> cross-sectoral, participatory, digital policy making. The Coalition
> has embarked on a project in this regard, working with leading
> progressive organizations in various sectors.
>
> At theevent on/*Digital Policy Making from Below – Ask the Impacted
> Sectors First’, */the first panel discussion will bring together some
> of the ‘sectoral organisations’ collaboratingwith JNC to present their
> views, ideas, as well as the current work that they are undertakingin
> JNC’sproject on cross-sectoral engagement for digital policy making.
>
> A second panel will pick up from the first panel’s presentions to
> build upa more general discussion about the way digital policies
> should be shaped with equitable and empowering participation of actors
> from the ‘impacted sectors’, ***towards **a new****paradigm of digital
> policy **making**. *
>
> In the end, we will have an open discussion on what role the Just Net
> Coalition, and other progressive groups, both in the digital arena and
> the ‘impacted sectors’, couldplay to develop the needed networks, as
> well as advocate for development of *the**institutional **conditions
> **required **for **the new policy paradi**gm**.*Here wewill zoom in to
> explore some specific directions that JNC maytake in the coming years.
>
> We invite you to be a part of this urgent and important conversation.
>
> *How to join:*
>
>  *
>
>     If attending in person, please join us at Ballroom A at the IGF
>     venue in Katowice, Poland
>
>  *
>
>     If attending virtually
>
>      o
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>         If you are already registered to attend IGF, please add our
>         session
>         <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2021-day-0-event-64-digital-policy-making-from-below-ask-the-impacted-sectors-first>to
>         your IGF schedule and click the register and attend option 24
>         hours before to receive your meeting link.
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>      o
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>         If you haven’t registered for the IGF 2021, you can do so here
>         <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2021-registration>to
>         attend our sessions as well as other workshops.
>
> *Agenda*
>
> *Time Slot (UTC) *
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> 	
>
> *Session Details *
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> 9.30 to 9.35
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> 	
>
> Check-in
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> 9.35 to 9.45
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> 	
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> Opening remarks
>
>
> Sean O'Siochru & Parminder Jeet Singh , Just Net Coalition – who will
> also anchor the event with its three panels
>
> 9.45 to 11.00
>
> 	
>
> *Session**1 – **A view from the sectors impacted by the ‘digital’*
>
>  *
>
>     Lara Merling, International Trade Union Confederation
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>  *
>
>     Jun Ho Jung, People’s Health Movement
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>  *
>
>     Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
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>  *
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>     C/é/dric Leterme, The Tricontinental Centre
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>  *
>
>     Elenita Dāno, ETC Group
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> 11.00-11.30
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> 	
>
> *Session 2 – ‘Impacted sectors first’ – A new paradigm of digital
> policy making*
>
>
> *Speakers*
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>  *
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>     Deborah James, Centre for Economic Policy and Research
>
>  *
>
>     Nachiket Udupa, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan
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>  *
>
>     Richard Hill, Association for Proper Internet Governance
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>  *
>
>     Amber Sinha, Center for Internet and Society
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> 11.30-11.55
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> 	
>
> *Open discussion on the future role and directions of Just Net
> Coalition, and other progressive actors interested in digital policies *
>
> 11.55-12.00
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> 	
>
> *Closing remarks *
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