Thanks to those who have already shared their first impressions.  It is really helpful to see those perspectives.  This is the zero draft so I think as others have said, work to be done.  For those on the list that are governments that opportunity is apparent, any further information on how non-government stakeholders can provide input?  I thought someone had posted to the list there would an informal stakeholder input session, but I haven't seen any specifics.  Have others?  This seems particularly critical given paragraph 54 asks the private sector, technical and academic communities, and civil society to endorse the GDC.

My take on the zero draft:

Look forward to hearing others perspectives.

Fiona
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I know you most people on this list are primarily concerned with IG and the creation of new mechanisms vs strengthening existing ones... but I want to point out how extremely disappointing the text is when it comes to connectivity - surely a priority.

There is insufficient recognition of the fact that current models have not worked and NO mention of bottom-up, community driven solutions. Quite the contrary in fact - it profiles World Bank, multi-lateral, private sector: precisely the mechanisms that have failed to effectively connect the unconnected:

"10 (b) Develop innovative financing mechanisms and incentives, in collaboration with the World
Bank Group other multilateral developments banks and the private sector, to connect the
remaining 2.6 billion people to the Internet and to improve the affordability of connectivity.
Our goal is entry-level broadband subscription costs at less than 2 percent of average income
of the bottom 40 percent of national populations (SDGs 1 & 9);"

No mention of the need to diversify access markets and including through community networks and small and medium locally owned internet enterprises.

References to WSIS are cursory and the draft completely fails to effectively inter-connect WSIS, the SDGs and the GDC. Mentions of the WSIS UN agencies sound somewhat condescending - I trust this in unintentional - and the focus on centering coordination in New York is sad news for civil society in particular, and, developing countries in general.

But there is also some good content. I hope that we can engage with the co-facilitators directly and through member states to make sure concerns are addressed effectively.

Anriette

Anriette Esterhuysen - anriette@apc.org//anriette@gmail.com
Senior advisor global and regional internet governance
Association for Progressive Communications
www.apc.org//afrisig.org
On 2024/04/02 08:31, Barrack Otieno wrote:
Hi Jorge,

It would be great to hear the rationale behind those proposals. I hope the upcoming Webinar will clarify this.

Regards

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM Jorge.Cancio--- via wsis20 <wsis20@icann.org> wrote:
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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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

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