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Comments on open access to WGIG
Civil Society Working Group on Scientific Information
Concise Comments on the WGIG Papers
We would require the kind attention of the WGIG on
the following issues:
1/ Facilitation or hindrance to Open Access to Scientific Information should be included as one factor of appreciation and criteria within Internet Governance considerations and assessments.
2/ The current governance of the Digital Objects Identifiers (DOI) should be assessed against the WSIS criteria. The
DOI is an autonomous system to locate and retrieve documents on the Internet and it has escaped so far to the notice of the WGIG ( see http://www.wsis-si.org/DOI/index.html ).
3/ In the WGIG papers, it has been rightly underlined in many occasions the lack of a proper legal framework for current governance agreements and for Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance. We would like to bring to the attention of the WGIG, the UNMSP proposal ( see http://www.unmsp.org
), under the high patronage of H.E Adama Samassékou, that would allow the flexible creation of Multi-Stakeholder partnerships that would be equitable, transparent, inclusive and accountable before the United Nations. In particular, considering the governance of the DOI, and its relevance to Scientific Information, the funding institutions, the learned societies and the Open Access advocacy groups should be included as stakeholders.
It is also of interest to notice that a UNMSP Multi-Stakeholder
partnership might provide the flexible and inclusive framework for ICANN or the ICANN/GAC combination where it is hoped that Scientific Institutions could have a voice. It is worth to recall that the Scientific Community has been the main creator of the Internet, but has kept little influence on its governance. Therefore we ask the WGIG to assess the possibilities offered by the UNMSP proposal to provide a way to create suitable legal frameworks for Internet governance.
Source: Posting in the Scientific Information Mailing List by
Francis Muguet.
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WSIS and civil society: A backgrounder
We have compiled this backgrounder to give you a complete picture of the WSIS from the perspective of the civil society. Explains academic concepts and issues related to knowledge society, notes activities and concerns of the civil society, and lists actors and organisations involved in the WSIS process as well as links to related Websites.
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