[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Is the Civil Society doing enough to bring about a balance in Internet Governance Policy positions?

Sun Apr 14 17:25:30 PDT 2019

Hi,

thanks fof this analysis and fufther disclosure.

Seeing this constructively, we should be builiding a parallel proposal led
by ISOC along the lines of "Infusing technical understanding into Internet
governance and related policy- and decision-making", partnering with
principals from the IETF, IEEE, W3C, ACM, etc., globally, and with
organizations like learned societies at the national level; some of these
are chapters of the IEEE, others are universities, associations of
engineers, of computer scientists, of software developers; in the private
sector we have start-ups, OG's like NANOG. Further interest would apply to
ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE, AFRINIC and APNIC.

Any takers? we have a few hours I think!

Alejandro Pisanty

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 5:52 PM sivasubramanian muthusamy <
6.internet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Alejandro,
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 2:56 AM Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> To make this ISOC-specific,
>>
>
> No. That is not the idea.
>
> is civil society doing enough to stay technically informed, to help other
>> stakeholders technically informed, and on vigilance that policy,
>> regulations, legislation, and decisions are made on a technically sound
>> basis compatible with the Internet and its effects on the conduct of people
>> and organizations?
>>
>
> Good questions. But the proposal is submitted with a Civil Society hat,
> for the good of Civil Society, which at the moment happens to be dispersed
> between various email lists discussing Internet Governance. The question
> "Is the Civil Society doing enough" is addressed to the Civil Society,
> somewhat accusatively with a purpose, with a view to prompt discussions of
> its essential role around the multi-stakeholder table.
>
>
>> Also, what "balance" exactly is the cause of concern, if not the above,
>> for the Internet Society?
>>
>
> The imbalances implied are a cause of concern for everyone in a deeper
> sense, but to Civil Society in particular, at this moment.
>
> An undisadvataged Civil Society as a stakeholder group would actually be
> of complementary value to the pursuits of the Internet (Technical)
> Community.
>
> Proposed primarily in the Internet Governance Caucus list, simultaneously
> shared with the Best Bits list, and with APC, thereafter shared with ISOC
> as a topic of possible interest to some of the Internet Society Chapters
> and members.
>
>
>
>
>> Alejandro Pisanty
>>
>> El dom., 14 de abr. de 2019 14:33, sivasubramanian muthusamy <
>> 6.internet at gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>>> Shared in the Chapter Delegates list, as a workshop proposal (in
>>> progress) that may be of interest to Chapter members with an interest in
>>> Civil Society positions.  I wish to request suggestions for participation
>>> in the panel of this workshop being proposed.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> With a few hours remaining for submission of the 2019 workshops, I
>>> intend to propose a workshop.  Looking for support, some quick suggestions
>>> to improve the text, and more importantly, for suggestions of speakers who
>>> have a good understanding of the history of Civil Society in IG.
>>>
>>> Kindly respond ASAP.
>>>
>>> title
>>> "Is the Civil Society doing enough?"
>>> policy question
>>> "Is the Civil Society doing enough to bring about a balance in Internet
>>> Governance Policy positions?"
>>> relevance to the theme:
>>> Though proposed under "Digital Inclusion", it is a workshop across the
>>> three themes, and of relevance to the overall design of the
>>> multi-stakeholder model of Internet Governance.
>>> relevance to Internet Governance:
>>> When broadly classified, Civil Society is one of the three stakeholders
>>> in Internet Governance. Since WSIS 2005, Civil Society has played a
>>> constructive role to bring about a balance in Internet Governance debates.
>>> However, a certain degree of imbalance persists as the other stakeholder
>>> groups tend to steer policy a little more than proportionately towards
>>> their own respective positions. Governments around the world draft
>>> legislative directives some of which the Civil Society find undesirable. In
>>> some instances, Civil Society positions remarkably differed from that of
>>> Government, the proposed Acts such as SOPA or PIPA or Directives were
>>> withdrawn, only to be reintroduced and confirmed by some other title or
>>> form. Business responds to Civil Society positions, for instance, on
>>> Privacy issues, but many of the concerns of Civil Society are not
>>> adequately addressed. It could be stated that the other stakeholder groups
>>> prevail more than proportionately over Civil Society, in matters related to
>>> Internet Governance. This prompts the question, "Is the Civil Society
>>> participating enough? Is the Civil Society doing enough?"  If not enough,
>>> what needs to be done? In Internet Governance, the formal title as "Civil
>>> Society" is shared by a somewhat loose collaboration between Internet
>>> Governance participants who took up the Civil Society role since WSIS 2005,
>>> other early CS participants in the IGF, organizations that pursue issues in
>>> public interest including Privacy organizations, Freedom foundations etc,
>>> and also organizations such as some Internet Society Chapters, ICANN
>>> AtLarge, ICANN Non Commercial Stakeholder Group etc, who partake in Civil
>>> Society positions in their own way. If the Civil society is not doing
>>> enough, is it because it requires greater interaction among those who
>>> pursue Civil Society positions in the IGF? How would Civil Society
>>> strengthen itself? Would it also look for Civil Society participation from
>>> beyond the IGF arena to bring in newer Civil Society participants to the
>>> IGF?
>>>
>>> These are some, and not all, questions that follow the questions in the
>>> title.
>>>
>>> Workshop session description:
>>> The session would revolve around the Title Questions, "Is the Civil
>>> Society doing enough to bring about a balance in Internet Governance Policy
>>> positions?" to bring up supplementary questions, and in the process
>>> identify its strengths and weaknesses to identify solutions towards
>>> strengthening itself for a balance.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>>> twitter.com/shivaindia
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>
>>

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