[governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] WGIG Progress Report

[avri at acm.org]

On 31 dec 2004, at 09.38, Yulia Timofeeva wrote:

> then there is certainly no need for WGIG to get involved into issues
> like privacy, copyright, intellectual property, freedom of
> information, cybercrime, etc.

Sometime I think WGIG might do something useful in making specific 
recommendations that certain areas did not lend themselves to 
international governance.

Alternatively WGIG could make recommendations that, originating from 
other declarations such as that for Human Rights, interpret the already 
signed agreements to indicate that the nations have a responsibility to 
act in a certain way in ICT affairs.

The point I want to make is that WGIG recommendations are not 
necessarily going to be that a certain aspect should be governed 
through an international mechanism.  They can be just as effective 
recommending that something not be governed or that the principles of 
national governance are already agreed to elsewhere.

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