GKP Panel Session on
Multistakeholder Partnerships in ICT for Development: Moving
from Setting the Agenda to Implementing the Action Plan
Rinalia Abdul Rahim (Global Knowledge Partnership
(GKP))
This is a practically oriented session that will explore the concept of partnership between actors from government, civil society and business in both setting policy agendas, and then, more importantly, in moving forward to undertake actions that are needed to bring to reality the agreed policy objectives. The primary focus is on the potential of using ICTs as an enabler of economic and social development and in reducing poverty.
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Multistakeholder Public Diplomacy of Small and Medium-Sized States:
Norway and Canada Compared
Jozef Bátora (University of Oslo)
The media explosion and the information revolution that have swept the globe in the 1990s have created a complex information-intensive environment in which international crises play out directly into domestic political debates of nations and domestic issues are debated by foreign audiences. Foreign policy, previously an exclusive realm managed by diplomats behind closed doors, is being increasingly democratised – citizens at large, NGOs, domestic ministries, private enterprises and other actors participate directly in debating foreign policy issues and frame debates in value-based terms (Matlary 2002).
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Methodologies and IT Tools for
Multistakeholder Diplomacy : The WSIS as Test Bed
Bertrand de La Chapelle
(Director, Wsis-online.net)ICTs are routinely recognized as both an economic sector and a tool to facilitate development (ICT4D). But we too often overlook a third dimension : their key enabling role for the new multi-stakeholder processes needed at national, regional and global levels.
Indeed, new policy fora and governance regimes can only be implemented with the help and support of a diversity of IT tools (wifi-enabled meetings, mailing lists, web repositories, collaborative spaces, ....) that allow continuous, iterative and emergent interaction between the various categories of actors.).
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Global Idea Networks: The Impact of Policy Collaboratories on Transnational Advocacy Networks and Multistakeholder Participation in the Global Governance of Cyber-infrastructure
Derrick L. Cogburn (Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse
University)Of the multiple and complex institutional processes shaping the emergence of a new international regime to provide global governance for information and communication infrastructure
(Krasner, 1986, 1991; Cowhey, 1992; Cogburn, 2003; Braman, 2004), international conferences have focussed on, information and communication technologies policy plays a critical role. By bringing together policy-actors from multiple sectors and involving them in formal and informal negotiations, these international conferences provide a location for contestation and convergence around the policy preferences that will shape the principles, values, norms, and rules of the emerging regime
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Multistakeholder Diplomacy as an
Aspect of the Cybernetic Governance for the Information
Society
Ljupco Gjorgjinski
(Executive Director, Kiro Gligorov Foundation)The coming of the Information Society brings to surface all the hopes and fears that traditionally come with the beginnings of a new age. And where may more hopes and fears be concentrated than toward the art of governing?
More actors will inevitably be involved in the governance of the Information Society, necessitating innovation and inviting a concentrated look toward the past. The fluidity of communication will certainly prove quite important in determining the success of the governance systems and processes in the Information Society.
Weaving 'governance' together with an etymological cousin to serve as an adjective we get 'cybernetic governance' and the beginning of an idea how Information Society governance need look like.
Multistakeholder Diplomacy: Foundations, Forms, Functions and Frustrations
Brian Hocking (Coventry
Business School)
It has become increasingly obvious to many, if not all, observers of diplomacy in an age of preoccupation with modes of global governance, that its forms and functions are becoming increasingly complex. At one level, traditional concerns, such as the distinction between bilateral and multilateral diplomacy have become less clear. But at another, it is obvious that the array of actors engaged in the diplomatic arena are far more diverse and that, in some senses, we are witnessing the return to pre-modern forms of diplomacy rather than its modern manifestations associated with the emergence of the integral state of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Internet Governance: An Example of Multistakeholder Diplomacy
Jovan Kurbalija (Director, DiploFoundation)
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The Role of the IFRC in a Multistakeholder World
Chris Lamb (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
There is now widespread recognition of the need for new approaches to diplomacy. The intergovernmental relationships that have governed diplomatic activity for centuries can no longer meet the needs of people. This is particularly so in the Internet era, as is recognised by the UN itself in the context of such events as the World Summit on the Information Society
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UN Conferences on the Spot - Voices from Civil Society: Whispering, Talking and Shouting Out
Britta Sadoun (Research Assistant,
UNRISD)In the project on UN World Summits and Civil Society Engagement, UNRISD attempts to explore the transformations in civil society that have resulted from its new role during the UN conferences of the 1990s. At those conferences, hundreds or even thousands of attending NGOs, demanded their share in the multilateral negotiations.
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Development Diplomacy and
Multistakeholder Negotiations
Case Example: Decent Work Agenda (DW) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
(PRSP)
Raymond Saner (CSEND)Conventional definitions of diplomacy previously reserved for role and behaviour of state actors are increasingly being applied to non-state actors such as Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (SCOs). A similar broadening of concept occurred with the notion of stakeholder, which was initially conceived by management theorists who used the concept to conduct strategic analysis of firm’s interactions with their respective environments. The current usage of stakeholder has since moved from single organisational focus to multiple actors’ focus whereby a larger group of actors are for instance shown to engage in coalitions of aggressive or defensive nature.
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Says who? Diktat and Dialogue in Public Diplomacy
Biljana Scott (Faculty Lecturer in Chinese, University of Oxford;
Lecturer and Project Manager on Language and Diplomacy, DiploFoundation)This paper addresses a paradox which arises directly from the presence of multiple stakeholders in Public Diplomacy. On the one hand, a government can best project a coherent image to the world if its spokesmen all adhere to message discipline. On the other, Public Diplomacy is all about engaging in dialogue, and about conveying a message through a diversity of voices, many of which are independent of the government. Diktat and dialogue are not compatible however.
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Post Cold War Diplomatic Training: The Importance of a Multistakeholder Approach to Inter- and Intra-state Conflicts
Victor Shale (Govt. of Lesotho)
The end of the Cold War has ushered a new phase in international relations that is characterised by new forms of conflict. Whereas the Cold War era conflict existed mainly between the West and the East, while having devastating effects on the Third World, the new era has seen the emergence of new and in some countries the intensification of intra-state conflicts, which always have the potential to internationalise. The world is also experiencing high levels of terrorism, which have never been seen before. The United States, Britain and other European countries have a new ferocious enemy that uses lethal strategies to destabilise both them and the world at large. The attack on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001 and the suicide attacks in the Middle East are some of the classic examples of the ferocity of the strategies that are employed by terrorist
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Emergence of Multistakeholder Diplomacy at the OECD: Origins, Lessons and Directions for the Future
John West (Head of Public Affairs and Director of the OECD Forum)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has always practiced an element of multistakeholder diplomacy to the extent that it has had, since its creation, consultative relations with both business and labour. Through the 1990s, there was a gradual evolution as NGOs and other civil society organisations began participating in OECD activities.
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