Thanks for sharing, Fiona. Agree with your points - and on your second-last bullet: It looks like the invitation for the IGF to spin up a GDC-related discussion track has been removed, and replaced (somewhat) by a call for the WSIS+20 review to look at how the IGF, WSIS Forum, NRIs and other WSIS structures can support GDC implementation. I’m a bit ambivalent about the change, but I think it’s probably a positive nod to the importance of ongoing work under WSIS (though, as you say, now competing in some ways with new approaches in the New York space - though the tail-end of para. 71 seems to hint at the need to align those different activities). Also interesting that paragraphs 8k, 27, and 65, all of which reference the different stakeholder groups, do so in different ways each time… not sure of the significance of that (if any - perhaps just an editorial quirk). Cheers, Chris
On 28 Aug 2024, at 13:03, Fiona Alexander via wsis20 <wsis20@icann.org> wrote:
Hi to all
Attached is GDC Rev 4 which has made it my way from a few different people this morning. I understand that like Rev 3 the draft was released under silence procedures. I don't have the details on the silence procedures deadline this time around, perhaps others do.
I'm still digesting the text but a quick assessment on the issues I have been most closely following: leans into ITU more on connectivity and bridging the digital divide; 2005 status quo on Internet governance (a pity in my view on the IGF funding challenge); More caution on Digital Public Infrastructure; The new AI panel and annual dialogue remain; Follow up seems a bit more grounded in existing mechanisms and a GDC implementation map produced and linked to next year's WSIS +20; and, A proposal for creation of a new UN office remains and will go to the General Assembly meetings next month, presumably for approval.
Look forward to hearing others perspectives.
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