[NCUC-DISCUSS] Durban Follow Up

[Klaus Stoll]

Dear Wolfgang, Dear Friends

Greetings and Thank You for your comments regarding I-Inform, which in 
my opinion deserve some clarification.

"On 7/22/2013 12:01 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote: 4. There was no 
formal discussion of the I*Plus Alliance project of NPOC members with 
NCUC but my impression was that the I*organisations themselves are 
rather sceptical. The idea is not bad, but the project looks very 
general and could be done probably by the I*organisations themselves 
better. It needs much more work to do if something should come our of 
this. In my eyes too late for Bali. And we could have better things on 
the agenda for BA. Best wishes wolfgang"

a) NPOC and NPOC members had a lot of opportunities to discuss all 
things related with I-Inform during the ICANN meeting or during the 
specific Wednesday event. I-Inform by its very nature is an initiative 
that requests those interested to take the initiative to participate and 
to engage. As I-Inform will do everything in its power to prevent it to 
become a new organization and structure its all about becoming active 
and participate not about joining. NCUC is more then welcome to 
participate and join in.  We had many discussions with all kinds of 
stakeholders in Durban regarding I-Inform and I am extremely grateful 
for the positive responses we received.

b) Yes, the project looks very general but that has a lot to do with the 
way the current participants and Alliance partners had decided to 
develop the project. ICANN 47 marked the end of the concept development 
phase of the alliance. From now on it is all about implementation and 
the alliance is currently working on events that focus fully on 
implementation, action and impact in Brussels, (early October), Buenos 
Aires, (full day, the Friday before the ICANN meeting), Singapore and 
London. Currently we are also working on more regional events like one 
for Africa. Please await the specific announcements in the next weeks 
and please also remember the participation is open to all and 
contributions from all are most welcome.

c) The I* organizations might be skeptical, but this is all based on a 
fundamental misunderstanding of the I-Inform concept. First of all its 
not about a new organization, but about creating a working platform for 
fundamental and grassroots IG outreach, information and capacity 
building. Organizations should only get involved in those parts they are 
comfortable with and they have something to contribute. Also it is not 
about the 5 I* organizations, the concept talks about I*Plus and it is 
the Plus part that is of equal if not more importance then the I* 
organizations.
Yes, as Wolfgang wrote,it  "could be done probably by the 
I*organisations themselves better", but they have failed to do so for 
many years and this failure has now reached a point that it endangers 
the existence of the multi-stakeholder based IG model itself. I-Inform 
was created in order to motivate and enable them to do so, let's hope 
they take this chance.

In short, the I-Inform alliance has just moved into a new implementation 
orientated phase and everybody willing and able to contribute, including 
NCUC, is welcome to join and to become active. I-Inform is all about 
basis democratization of the Internet and its governance, everything 
else is just a distraction.

Hope the above helps in the understanding of the I-Inform, I* Alliance. 
For those not familiar with the Alliance concept, I attach the latest 
version.

Yours

Klaus

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