Showing posts with label WSIS10. Show all posts
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2015-12-21

What ICANN CEO Chehade Has Been Up To: WSIS, Wuzhen Initiative

Another Initiative? Yes, and this time it's not in Brazil but China: the Wuzhen Initiative--and ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade is still in charge!--whatever happened to Fadi's NETmundial Initiative?
For a different take on the Wuzhen Initiative than Fadi Chehade's above, read The Firewall Awakens: ICANN's exiting CEO takes internet governance to the dark side by Kieren McCarthy, The Register: "Chehade knows only too well what this initiative means and represents. Combined with the closed organizing committee, and the closed "advisory committee," the setup is little more than a Chinese-government-run effort to influence global internet governance."

UPDATE: For a complete list of the "31 members of the first high-level advisory committee for the World Internet Conference's (WIC) organizing committee secretariat" that Fadi Chehade has joined, and given his personal support and endorsement, while still serving as ICANN CEO, see High-level advisory committee established for World Internet Conference. To understand the dynamics at play here, see also the meanings of Guanxi. See also World Economic Forum: How China and Russia see the internet.

The 2nd WIC Organizing Committee proposes the Wuzhen Initiative: ".... 5. Improving the global Internet governance. We call for the international community to cooperate in good faith, basing on mutual trust and in pursuit of common values and interest, in developing a joint approach to and common understanding of cyber-related international norms and rules in cyberspace, protecting and respecting basic rights and fundamental interests on the Internet, to foster and encourage innovation, and to bring the rule of law into cyberspace to jointly establish a peaceful, secure, open and cooperative cyberspace, and feature a multilateral, democratic and transparent global Internet governance system, with more valuable and inclusive involvement of governments, private sector, civil society, technical and academic community, international organizations and all other relevant stakeholders in accordance with their respective roles and responsibilities to contribute in a meaningful manner, helping to forge a genuine community of common destiny in cyberspace...."





See IGF, WSIS 10+ & WIC: Three World Conferences for One Internet by Wolfgang Kleinwächter: "... It was interesting that Wuzhen did not only discuss "sovereignty" but also "sharing" and "differentiation". The Chinese "Internet Plus" plan refers to the "shared Internet economy". And Jack Ma, the CEO of Alibaba, spoke about a "differentiated Internet Governance" system. On the other hand: One should not be naïve. To implement the philosophy of sharing in Internet policy development and decision making on the national and international level is a big challenge. Sharing sovereign rights needs a high level of mutual trust and understanding. There are deep conflicts among stakeholders. And there are also natural tensions between rules in bordered places in the real world and principles in unbordered spaces in the virtual world. If the rules of the bordered places are extended into the unbordered spaces, the risk is high that this will kill opportunities, that the global and open Internet will become fragmented into 193 national segments..."

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2015-10-20

WSIS+10, Zero Draft, 2nd Preparatory Meeting, October 20-22, 2015

While ICANN 54 is meeting in Dublin and the IANA Transition process has slowed to almost a complete dead STOP awaiting the CCWG-Accountability which appears hopelessly divided over a designator vs sole member model for a new ICANN sans US government oversight, unwilling or unable to move forward, there are other options for the global multistakeholder community a/k/a the global internet community than just a dysfunctional NTIA mandated, ICANN convened process:
"... 35. We reaffirm that the management of the Internet encompasses both technical and public policy issues and should involve all stakeholders and relevant intergovernmental and international organizations. In this respect it is recognized that: Policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the sovereign right of States. They have rights and responsibilities for international Internet-related public policy issues...." - WSIS: Tunis Agenda for the Information Society (2005) (emphasis added)
  • October 19 - Informal Interactive WSIS Stakeholder Consultation
  • October 20-22: 2nd Preparatory Meeting 
  • Last week in November - Second Draft
  • Dec 15-16, 2015: High-level meeting, UN General Assembly, WSIS+10 review 
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2nd Preparatory Meeting for the UN General Assembly's overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, 20-22 October 2015, ECOSOC Council, UN Headquarters, New York: (coverage may be available at http://webtv.un.org/ )
Tuesday, 20 October 
9:30-10:00 a.m. Opening
10:00 a.m. - 11 :30 a.m. General views on the zero draft
11 :30 - 1 :00 p.m. General views on ICT for Development
3:00 - 4:30 pm General views on Internet Governance
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. General views on Human Rights and Building Confidence and Security in the use of ICTs
Wednesday, 21 October 
10:00 a.m. - 1 :00 p.m. Interactive discussion on ICT for Development
 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Interactive discussion on Internet Governance 
Thursday, 22 October 
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Interactive discussion on Human Rights and Building Confidence and Security in the use of ICTs
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Plenary review of progress and next steps

Guiding Questions Day 2 - Interactive discussion on Internet Governance:
1. What should the main goals of internet governance be now and in the future?
2. What are the respective roles of governments and non-government stakeholders? How do you view their fulfillment over the last 10 years?
3. How should the concept of Enhanced Cooperation be implemented?

WSIS+10 | United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting | Official Website - http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/

Zero Draft (pdf): http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/Internet/Documents/UNPAN95383.pdf:
".... 2. Internet Governance 
32. We recognise the general agreement that the governance of the Internet should be open, inclusive, and transparent. We reiterate the working definition of Internet governance set out in paragraph 34 of the Tunis Agenda, as 'the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision making procedures and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet’. 
33. We reaffirm the principles agreed in the Geneva Declaration that the management of the Internet encompasses both technical and public policy issues and should involve all stakeholders and relevant intergovernmental and international organizations, within their respective roles and responsibilities as set out in paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda. 
34. We recognise that there is a need to promote greater participation and engagement of all stakeholders, from developing countries, particularly African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, and small island developing States in internet governance discussions. 
35. We recognise the principle and importance of net neutrality, and call for its protection accordingly. 
36. We note that a number of member states have called for an international legal framework for internet governance. 
37. We acknowledge the unique role of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as a multistakeholder platform for discussion of Internet governance issues, while taking into account the report of the CSTD Working Group on improvements to the IGF, which was approved by the General Assembly in its resolution and ongoing work to implement the findings of that report. We extend the IGF mandate for another five years with its current mandate as set out in paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society. We recognize that, at the end of this period, progress must be made on Forum outcomes and participation of relevant stakeholders from developing countries ..."

Background: In December of 2003, the world came together in Geneva at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) to declare a “common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society.” The second phase of WSIS, conducted in Tunis in 2005. Paragraph 111 of the Tunis Agenda, endorsed by the General Assembly in resolution 60/252 , requested the General Assembly to undertake the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2015. In response, the General Assembly in resolution 68/302 , decided that the overall review will be concluded by a two-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly, to be preceded by an intergovernmental process that also takes into account inputs from all relevant stakeholders of the World Summit on the Information Society. (source: UN)

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