[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Statement on the NETmundial Initiative

[Livingood, Jason]

On 11/19/14, 11:38 AM, "Alejandro Pisanty" <apisanty at gmail.com<mailto:apisanty at gmail.com>> wrote:
One concrete but ambitious task we should undertake is to review the assumptions upon which the NMI move has been predicated:

1. that going to WEF is the way to attract the right kind of attention of big business and government to Internet governance.

This is a really critical point, Alejandro! Thanks for raising it – I really wonder the same.

Maybe, but we have seen numerous reasons not to, so this may at least be a matter of "why" and "how" and "at what cost in terms of consequences" before deciding "whether." Clearly the balance is not favorable at present.

+1

2. that NMI will sort out issues that have not been properly attended to. ISOC, already over several years, has been mapping Internet governance issues worldwide and did not find gaps large enough to merit the creation of a huge superstructure that in turn may become a centralizer with major negative impact. A task here is to do this mapping again, in a practical, sensible but still deep analytical way, and an open mind.

+1 —> very good point as well!

Some of this has already been advanced, among other places in this discussion, and in the five outcomes papers of the IGF in which ISOC had significant leadership. They touch on items like children online protection, spam, multistakeholder governance, and are at the very least good objects of analysis and springboards going forward.

I would add in the area of “multistakeholder governance” that even more analysis is needed. What does this mean? What needs does it serve? And whom does it serve (governments, business interests, end users, etc.)?

It is time to apply ISOC's unique combination of analytic powers, subject-matter knowledge availability, global-local presence, and adherence to principles, and worry a bit less about hurt feelings. Raul's note is encouraging.

Yes, I think we are lucky to have someone like Raul at ISOC – he is awesome. :-)

Jason
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