democracy strengthening via the internet

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Dr. Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblondocl@gih.com

ISOC England Chapter ChairmanALAC Chairman at ICANN

Presentation at 5th Ukraine Internet Governance ForumKyiv, Ukraine, 3 October 2014

Democracy Strengthening via the Internet

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e-government, e-governance, e-participation

E-government – accessing all government services on-line

E-governance – in a small community E-participation – on-line forum for

citizen participation

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E-government

accessing all government services on-line

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E-governance

in a known community

14Source: http://www.icann.org/en/about/

Board of Directors

President and CEO 16 9 10 13 14 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15

At-Large Security & Stability Advisory

Committee

Root Server System Advisory

Committee

ICANN StaffMDR – 68SV – 11DC – 9

Sydney - 5Brussels - 5

Other US - 11Other non-US - 14

Per ICANN Bylaws, Article VII, section 2

Nominating Committee

ASO GNSO ccNSO

Regional Internet Registries ARIN RIPE NCC LACNIC APNIC AfriNIC

gTLD Registries gTLD Registrars IP interests ISPs Businesses Universities Consumers

ccTLD registries (.us, .uk, .au, .it, .be, .nl, etc.)

Internet EngineeringTask Force

Internet Users(At-Large Advisory Committee,in conjunction with RALOs)

SSAC RSSAC

Technical Liaison Group

TLG IETF

ALAC

L L LL LGovernmental Advisory Committee

Governmental Advisory Committee

ChairOmbudsman

ICANN Multi-Stakeholder Model

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At-Large Security & Stability Advisory

Committee

Root Server System Advisory

Committee

ASO GNSO ccNSO

Regional Internet Registries ARIN RIPE NCC LACNIC APNIC AfriNIC

gTLD Registries gTLD Registrars IP interests ISPs Businesses Universities Consumers

ccTLD registries (.us, .uk, .au, .it, .be, .nl, etc.)

Internet EngineeringTask Force

Internet Users(At-Large Advisory Committee,in conjunction with RALOs)

SSAC RSSAC

Technical Liaison Group

TLG IETF

ALAC

Governmental Advisory Committee

Governmental Advisory Committee

ICANN Multi-Stakeholder Model

Governments

Other Advisory Committees

InternetUsers

CountryCode

Operators

President and CEO

ICANN StaffMDR – 68SV – 11DC – 9

Sydney - 5Brussels - 5

Other US - 11Other non-US - 14

Ombudsman

Staff

AnotherMulti-

StakeholderModel

Multi-Stakeholder

Model

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At-Large Bottom-up to the ALAC

BottomUp

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Example of At-Large Structure Input

Response to Public Comment Request

Bottom-up process

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Open Public Comment List

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Open Public Comment

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Open Public Forum

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E-participation

on-line forum for citizen participation

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Government consultation

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Consultation Portal

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Public Consultation Input

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Individual Parliamentarians

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Zoom on process

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Jacques Attali – on referendum

The problem with a referendum is that people do not vote on the topic of the referendum.

They vote for or against the person or administration who ask the question.

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Conclusions

E-government services are costly to implement but improve efficiency and reduce corruption

E-participation needs to be promoted E-participation needs to be facilitated People need to be educated on how to

e-participate Politicians need to be educated on how

to listen to input from e-participation

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Thank you !

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

Olivier Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com>