[Chapter-delegates] Membership Survey Internet Governance

[Sebastian Ricciardi]

Dear Constance, 

 

Thanks for your message. Are the results of the survey available?. 

 

We have a couple of comments regarding chapter involvement and relationship
with local policymakers that I would like to share with this list. 

 

Our chapter (ISOC.Ar) experience in dealing with local policymakers and
governmental authorities has been extremely good. Since WISIS, we have
establish a continuous interchange of views and ideas with the different
government offices involved in these issues. In these interchanges we have
faced the following scenario:

 

·         Many government officers appreciate opinions and, sometimes,
guidance on Internet Governance issues.

·         Usually, guidance is needed in explaining how the current
coordination model works. Who is ICANN, LACNIC, the NRO, their roles,
responsabilities, and institutional framework. Sometimes they need basic
ideas, and many times they ask for more specific and sensitive issues (i.e.
the relationship between ICANN and the local ccTLDs, or even the management
of root servers).

·         We start talking with different officers in a kind of informal
way, and since then, the government start holding official meetings on
relevant matters, and invited ISOC as an expert opinion.

·         From our perspectives, LAC governments are more interested in
access (connection costs, digital divide, computer literacy, access in rural
areas, etc.), Spam, Privacy and Cybercrime, than ICANN, etc.

·         They want to know HOW to build on the existent framework, once
they understand how it works.

·         We provide guidance without trying to impose our ideas (what would
be impossible, anyway). 

·         A pragmatic approach to governance issues is usually more
productive than dogmatic argumentation.

 

I´ll try to summarize our experience. We welcome comments, and also would
like to hear other experiences from this list.

 

Best regards,

 

Sebastian Ricciardi

ISOC.Ar

 

 

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De: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] En nombre de Constance
Bommelaer
Enviado el: Miércoles, 02 de Mayo de 2007 08:59 a.m.
Para: 'Chapter Delegates'
Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] Membership Survey Internet Governance

 

Dear Chapter delegates,

 

We will soon be launching a survey to all members on Internet governance
matters that is designed to get feedback from the membership on priorities
for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio in November. We would greatly
appreciate your and your Chapter member responses.  

 

We will be following up the survey with a number of events between now and
November and would very much appreciate your thinking as to how we and the
Chapters can best reach policymakers regionally and nationally to address
the Internet governance issues of concern to them.  One idea that we are
exploring (and we would appreciate your thoughts on) would be to have an
“ISOC Internet Governance month” in which we could seek to create a
Chapter-wide set of activities comprising meetings with policymakers,
workshops and outreach efforts within a specific time frame, with September
being a good candidate time period.  

 

More details to come but would welcome any thoughts back.

 

Best,

 

Constance Bommelaer

Internet Society (ISOC)

Public Policy Manager

+41 22 807 1444

 

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