Dear all,

Many thanks for sharing this GDC zero draft. I believe this is a good starting point. However, I agree with the points raised by Jorge, Nigel and Amrita and I’m looking forward to discussing these further. Especially, I think it is important to avoid duplication of efforts and to maintain and strengthen the role of the IGF.

Kind regards,

Ana.

De: wsis20 <wsis20-bounces@icann.org> En nombre de Amrita Choudhury
Enviado el: martes, 2 de abril de 2024 10:03
Para: Hickson, Nigel (DSIT) <nigel.hickson@dsit.gov.uk>
CC: wsis20@icann.org
Asunto: Re: [wsis20] GDC zero draft

Hi All,

While a lot of the text in the Zero draft is Developing country friendly, I echo Jorge's concern of limiting the Role of IGF and  multistakeholder cooperation only to the"   governance, content, and technical layers" and trying to create the High-Level Review of the Global Digital Compact, rather than used existing mechanism such as IGF, CSTD and UN mechanisms as proposed by many.

Additionally the role of Multistakeholders  seems problematic, especially the text " ...cooperation will involve all stakeholders, according to their respective mandates, functions and competencies"" This at times can be used to sideline stakeholders especially Civil Society.

Regards,

Amrita

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 12:22, Hickson, Nigel (DSIT) via wsis20 <wsis20@icann.org> wrote:

Jorge

Good morning for posting and for Observations; clearly work for us all to do and will demonstrate value of this list;

Best

Nigel

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Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 6:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [wsis20] GDC zero draft

Thanks Jordan: key are paras 61 to 64 which establish an entirely new follow-up process, which most probably would attract all attention  on digital governance issues, and de facto would render existing processes (such as IGF) quite disempowered...

There is as well a narrative of clustering the IGF and Internet governance as a merely technical matter, which is not pertinent to other aspects of the GDC (see Paras 25:26 and how they stand v-a-v the rest)...

just some first personal impressions...

Jorge

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Von: Jordan Carter via wsis20 <wsis20@icann.org>
Datum: 2. April 2024 um 01:28:06 MESZ
An: ICANN wsis20 <wsis20@icann.org>
Betreff: [wsis20] GDC zero draft

Hi all

This now appears to have been released:

https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/Global_Digital_Compact_Zero_Draft.pdf

On a quick first read, the role of the technical community has been recognised, and the follow up process proposed is through existing mechanisms, not a new Digital Cooperation Forum.

Those seem to be wins.

Cheers
Jordan

Jordan Carter
Internet Governance and Policy Director

.au Domain Administration

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