Fwd: [governance] Suggestions for how to propose themes

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

Hi all,

Below is a message posted on the Internet governance caucus (IGC)  
mailing. It provides suggestions on the way the IGC should frame its  
own proposal of priority issues to the IGF. I think this skeleton  
would also nicely work for our own proposal.
I would also like to remind you that, on March 8,  I've made  
suggestions for HR caucus proposal to the IGF (see http:// 
www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/list/2006/msg00316.html). Up  
to now, only Rikke and Ginger commented it. If there are no other  
comments/alternative proposal within the following days, we'll have  
to start drafting a text along those lines. So please comment, make  
any other proposal before March 21.

Best,
Meryem

Début du message réexpédié :

> De : "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu>
> Date : 15 mars 2006 22:47:49 HNEC
> À : <governance@lists.cpsr.org>,  
> <wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
> Objet : [governance] Suggestions for how to propose themes
>
> Let me make some suggestions for how these proposals should be  
> framed. We should revert to the well thought out suggestion of  
> Bertrand de la Chapelle and go about it in this way:
>
> [quoting Bertrand:]
>
> Stakeholders would contribute *one page submission, in a proposed  
> six point format:
>
> a.      A *concise formulation* for the proposed theme;
> b.     A brief *description* of why it is important in their view;
> c.     How it is in conformity with the Tunis Agenda in terms of  
> *substance*,
> particularly in reference to para. 34 to 54;
> d.     How it fits *within the mandate* of the IGF as detailed in  
> para 72;
> e.      Who the *main actors* in the field are, who could be  
> encouraged to
> participate in the Forum and its thematic sessions
> f.       Last but not least, why, in their view, this issue should be
> addressed *in the first annual meeting* of the Forum rather than in
> subsequent ones.
>
> [end quote]
>
> Let me expand a bit on point a). I hope that our "concise  
> formulations" of themes are NOT put forward as broad labels like  
> "IG and cybercrime" or "IG and human rights." They should be framed  
> as specific questions relating to policy formulation, such as:
>
> "How can the need for global mechanisms to counteract cybercrime be  
> reconciled with the need for the privacy of user communications?"
>
> or
>
> "Are global norms or rules needed to govern Internet hosting  
> companies interaction with governments that engage in political  
> repression and censorship?
>
>
>
>
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