[Advisors] some notes from WSIS+20 livestream

[Clarice Leader]

Thank you Garth, good collection of points that were made by speakers.

On Wed., Mar. 15, 2023, 5:43 p.m. Garth Graham, <garth.graham at telus.net>
wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2023, at 9:45 AM, Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net> wrote:
> >
> > As promised, here is the link to the youtube livestream of the WSIS+20
> session -- Mar. 15 10:30-12:00 EST
> >
> > Looking Toward WSIS+20
> > 15 March, 15:30–17:00 UTC
> > YouTube Livestream
> >
> > ICANN76: Looking Towards WSIS+20 - YouTube
>
>  ICANN76:  Looking Towards WSIS+20.  Marc. 15, 2023
>
> This is not a summary.  It’s impressionistic.  While the range of
> experience in Internet Governance consultation processes speaking at this
> meeting was impressive, I was only able to scribble down buzz phrases that
> struck me as significant.  Not being familiar with speakers’ contexts, I
> may have inadvertently, not captured what they said correctly.
>
> ·      Today all policy is Internet policy. The future of governance in
> the digital age is what’s at stake.
>
> ·      There are now more complexities in the Internet’s application
> layer, transport layer, and use layer. To be addressed, they all need
> enhanced collaboration.
>
> ·      To have input into what is an inter-governmental process requires
> raising voices on many related platforms for interaction.  This may require
> the organization of non-state platforms.
>
> ·      WISIS +20 is an opportunity to address digital equality, and
> digital inclusion in the substructures we all use.
>
> ·      We have to address the role of governments.  In the UN, the
> question of who decides now has evolved to include “who has been consulted
> along the way?”  This inclusiveness allows for seeing problems from the
> stakeholders’ point of view. But it means that there must be no closed
> rooms in the process of consultation.
>
> ·      The UN wants treaties as outcomes.  ICANN needs to be present in
> those treaties, particularly for the context they create for governments in
> making national legislation.
>
> ·      ICANN is an example that the multi-stakeholder model can work. But
> the model is not in the UN’s process interventions that have now become
> more focussed on timely outcomes.
>
> ·      People are losing interest in the Internet Governance Forum.
> Discussion is moving to other forums where using the multi-stakeholder
> model is more difficult.
>
> ·      Enhanced cooperation is a necessary outcome. But what institutions
> are needed to solve the broader problems that are now present?
>
> ·      The technical people need to share more than technical knowledge
> for necessary Internet ecosystem outcomes.  They need to share values and
> processes.  But the substantive, collaborative effort for doing that is
> actually quite weak.
>
>
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