Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Internet Governance for Development [IG4D] cross cutting priority
Main theme question address by workshop: Question 5: What are the prospects for the various countries embracing and implementing such principles
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
It is very difficult to translate the term "multistakeholderism" into different languages. It is not only linguistic problem, but also cultural, historical, economical, and, finally, political one.
The roles of government, business and civic society in quasi-democratic or authoritarian countries are not well separated, first of all because of using public money or public resources as the main source of the personal enrichment. Under close examinations politicians reveal themselves as businessmen, businessmen have extremely close relations with politics, and NGOs prosper on money of politicians or businessmen, or on both.
And all of them are extremely interested in NOT delivering to their citizens free access to knowledge, information, communication, and, finally, to understanding of the concept of multistakeholderism.
IGF, ICANN, regional and national IG initiatives can help to overcome this bottle-neck, even if such countries do not participate in these fora on official level. But such efforts demand a lot of support from adequate parties (for example, from the Council of Europe for the Eastern European countries).
To share multistakeholderism values on the global level it is necessary to put them as the major priority for all IG stakeholders, regardless their regional affiliation. Summer Schools on Internet Governance, ICANN Fellowship and ICANN Academy, ISOC Ambassadors, Diplo Foundation have to create critical mass to raise awareness and to promote media and internet literacy. The idea of multiple mirrors of all these initiatives, together with capacity building with all their participants, can really change the world order.
Background Paper: Hanne Severinsen intervention.doc
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Oksana Prykhodko, director of the iNGO European Media Platform (with head-quarter in Ukraine)
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: No
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Denmark, University of Aarhus
Olga Cavalli, Argentina's GAC representative at ICANN
Cheryl Langdon-Orr, vice-chair of the ICANN's ALAC,Australia
Naveed Ul-Haq, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)
Tom Lindstrom, Ericsson, director, Sweden
Name of Remote Moderator(s):