[chapter-delegates] Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Strategic priorities for WGIG

[veni markovski]

Dear colleagues,

What would be your choice? (And please, don't be influenced by Vittorio's 
email and choices)

best,
veni

>Delivered-To: plenary at mailman.greennet.org.uk
>From: Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org>
>To: WSIS Plenary <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:05:46 +0100
>
>All,
>
>the time all of a sudden has come when the Secretariat has asked WGIG
>members to list the issues they consider as priorities.
>
>It is likely that the WGIG will ultimately deal with the governance
>systems of no more than 5-7 of the issues originally listed.
>
>While many things are not clear yet - for example, whether the decision
>on priorities will be taken now or in Geneva, whether public comment
>will be specifically asked on that, whether it will focus on issues or
>on other aggregations or maybe on organizations to be reformed - it is
>time that civil society as an aggregate starts to think at what it aims
>to get from the WGIG.
>
>I think that the WGIG offers a unique possibility, as it is very rare
>that a group of people in which civil society is present as peer is
>tasked to suggest which global governance regimes and institutions need
>reform. Such a chance might not come again for many years.
>
>As such, I think we have to consider which, of the organizations whose
>policies affect the Internet, we deem to be the key ones whose missions
>and structures should be revised.
>
>ICANN is in the list by default, given what happened at WSIS-I.
>
>Of course, you can imagine that my personal take is at WIPO and the
>intellectual property regime - and of course, private sector
>representatives are going to oppose this, and possibly to get the WGIG
>state that WIPO needs no reform, or that such reform is not as urgent as
>the ICANN one; so if we want to follow this way, we need a strong push
>from this plenary and from caucuses.
>
>Anyway, I think that you should browse through the list of issues at
>http://www.wgig.org/docs/inventory-issues.html and try to pick the 5-7
>most important ones to you and your groups.
>
>You can give for granted that "root servers" and "names/IP
>administration" will be there; my personal choice for the rest would
>possibly be "intellectual property", "privacy/consumer rights", "spam",
>"interconnection costs" and perhaps "trade/liberalization".
>
>Caucus connectors should possibly raise the issue with their caucuses
>and prepare to submit statements to the WGIG by February 14, both on the
>priorities and on the content of the issue papers that will be released
>next week.
>
>It would be a great thing if there could be a collective civil society
>statement, but I imagine there's not enough time for it.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----


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