TR: [CS Bureau] Planning for PrepCom 3

[Tracey Naughton]

Hello

I agree with Adam that it will be productive to have two sessions on
Internet Governance.

I think the first needs to bring people up to speed - a kind of beginners
training session. It may be that I live in a developing context and am
always prepared to step back from a position of expertise and walk people
through the terrain, and you guys may not agree that this needs to be done
here. My observations are that the majority of people in civil society are
not engaging in the debates and I think its because they just don't know
about the architecture of the Internet, the hot issues or the political
choices that are to be made. If we have any chance of developing our own
clear position we need to make sure we have done what we can to inform
people first. This can only strengthen our position. There is useful
material for this kind of a session on both the DIPLO Foundation and PANOS
sites.

I mean topics like - a simple look at the architecture, what would de
stabilise the net, what needs management and what doesn't, are there
alternative ways of managing the net, who governs it now and what options
are there, what are the terms one needs to know.Are democratic principles
relevant and if so how can they be applied. people need info to form
opinions and to agree with or debate and position we may try to
collectively develop.

The second session can then assume people know the terrain and the issues 
and can deal with more substantive debate / perhaps a civil society
statement. This will probably need the first week to develop and
negotiate.

CONGO is where the CS Bureau Secretariat is based and Philippe Dam there
is the person to make all logistical requests through.His email is:
wsis at iprolink.ch

If there is anything I can do from far away, let me know.

Tracey


> I support Adams #moving forward approach#.
>
> With regard to CS IG sessions during PrepCom2 we should have one on Monday
> afternoon or Tuesday in week 1 and than being flexible. I expect, that
> Ambassador Khan, the Chair of WG II will rather soon establish a NGIG, a
> Negotiation Group on Internet Governance. In case, non-governmental
> stakeholder wille excluded from NGIG, we should start our own process,
> including a workshop and a press conference.
>
> Best
>
> wolfgang
>
>
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> From: bureau-admin at wsis-cs.org on behalf of Adam Peake
> Sent: Tue 7/26/2005 6:28 AM
> To: bureau at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: TR: [CS Bureau] Planning for PrepCom 3
>
>
>
>>Robert
>>
>>As I often do, I did respond to Renata's call about an orientation
>>for PrepCom 3, but off list. It seems that as I work from obscure
>>villages or obsolete universities I respond as I do, from the basis
>>of what the feel was at the last meeting. Last human contact for
>>people who don't have easy access to non face to face contact is the
>>best basis from which to navigate solidarity.
>>
>>What I felt at the last PrepCom as I looked from the Chairing seat
>>to the mass of faces, was that a lot of new players were being left
>>out and the usual suspects were debating the same old issues of
>>representation. What I recall was agreed was an orientation session
>>aimed at bringing all who could attend it, up to speed on Internet
>>Governance.
>>
>>What I have seen since, is a complete backdown on this commitment
>
>
>
> No, not complete... we're on it.
>
> Understand we've been a little distracted by the WGIG report, little
> point planning anything until we knew what that looked like.  But in
> Geneva last week we were able to get an idea of who would be at
> PrepCom 3, and possible location for a session.  Now seems we'll have
> a core group of people in Geneva to lead the orientation on Internet
> governance at the start of PrepCom, and also a place to hold such a
> session.
>
> Question is do we want 2 sessions, 1 at the start of the prepcom and
> another at the start of the 2nd week? Always seem to have a flow of
> people in and out of Geneva during the long prepcoms (e.g. round one:
> Sunday Sept 17, round 2 Sunday Sept 24). Would appreciate comments on
> this as it effects travel plans (for me anyway.)
>
> Will the bureau be holding a general orientation?  How long will that
> take?  How many people do you expect? (estimate from how many at
> earlier meetings?)  Internet governance probably take an afternoon.
>
>
>
>>and another situation where people in the know, most often those
>>with access to information and communication technology, cheap
>>airfares, reasonable distance and the ability to call each other
>>easily are in the driving seat, ignoring those who don't know what
>>they don't know.
>>
>>What need to be on the agenda here is some trust and humanism.
>
>
> Trust is hard. But I hope we know each other well enough by now to
> have a stab at it.
>
> Tracey, hope you'll be at the prepcom, you get my vote to chair the
> plenary (is that cruel :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>>Tracey Naughton
>>
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