[Chapter-delegates] Membership Survey on Internet Governance

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello Fatima Lasay,

Isoc India chennai has plans to propose workshops at the IGF Cairo. The idea
is to propose a workshop to debate on Internet's core principles and
 values.


Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
http://isocmadras.blogspot.com


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Fatima Lasay <fats at isoc.ph> wrote:

> chapter-delegates-request at elists.isoc.org wrote:
>
>  Read more about Internet governance on ISOC?s site:
>> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/wsis/IGF.shtml
>>
>> We would also be interested in knowing if your chapter has plans to
>>  propose or to collaborate in a workshop for the IGF, if accepted.  As  you
>> probably know, the forms for a preliminary workshop proposal and  other
>> information are available on the IGF web site:   www.intgovforum.org ,
>> and the deadline for proposals has been extended to April 21.   Please let
>> me and Constance Bommelaer know if you do have plans.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I was hoping to collaborate with ISOC Chennai (if possible) as a
> follow-up on what was mentioned at the summing-up session in Hyderabad.
> I quote from the transcript of the session below:
>
> "My name is Sivu Subramaniam Motosami (phonetic).  I am from ISOC India,
> Chennai, but I want to share my observations as an individual. This is
> my first IGF, and I have a lot of respect for the participants here.
> But my individual impression is that we have a lot of experts here, but
> the expertise in some cases does not stem from a complete understanding
> of the fundamental issues. We are on the third IGF, and because we are
> on the third IGF, is it right to assume that we are halfway through the
> process of evolving Internet governance or is it probably right to think
> of the way forward -- the way forward is to go back to the fundamentals
> and probably ask what is the Internet and what is the impact of the
> decisions made here in its full depth. In other words, is the way
> forward -- is the best way forward to go back to the fundamentals and
> understand the Internet in its full depth?  To make all stakeholders,
> all participants understand the Internet in its full depth? And then
> decide what needs to be done. Thank you."
> - from http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/hyderabad_prog/TSAWF.html
>
>
> Nevertheless, we've just established an Education Working Group in ISOC
> PH focusing on "Internet Fundamentals" (another sub-group deals with
> "Youth and the Internet").
>
> Not much activity on the ground yet as we are still rejuvenating, but
> plenty of difficult discussion on-going (among a rather small group of
> active members).
>
> I will look at the IGF Survey.
>
> Also, we have ISOC PH members who have been to the IGFs, they should take
> the survey as well.
>
> I'll post the ISOC PH article on our activities, etc. shortly -
> which explains our situation and our planned activities for IGF (among
> others).
>
> Best regards,
> Fatima
>
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