Argentina and progress towards multistakeholder model

AutorRamiro Alvarez Ugarte
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See note 51

Under the NETmundial meeting held last month in Brazil on the Future of Internet Governance, Argentina announced the creation of a national organization dedicated to raising strategies on Internet governance. This was an announce on which Argentine delegation not overemphasize: Communications Secretary Norberto Berner did not even mention the issue in his opening speech.

Anyway, this is a signiicant event. Through Resolution 13/2014, the Ministry of Communications of Argentina created the Argentine Internet Policy Committee (AIPC). And it is a space that seems to be the irst step toward a multistakeholder model in governance in Argentina. But it is thought that the process will be slow.

Indeed, the irst step of the AIPC will be to develop Internal Operating Rules which will aim to "coordinate the participation of the various stakeholders

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and to design a national strategy on the Internet and its governance". And the irst step on this path is to articulate positions inward state. It will be after this internal process that AIPC will open to other sectors, which is necessary for a true multiparty governance model.

These models are complex: the incorporation of different actors leads necessarily to question the logic behind the model of action and representation of each of them. And for the time being, from the State, there were conlicting signals. Indeed, Berner recognized the complexity of the process and the autonomy of each sector to deine its way of action when he pointed out in an interview to a newspaper that "the irst challenge is to deine who are, in Argentina, the multiple stakeholders". He noted that "the irst step is to deine the universe, deine how representation theory will operate. But beware: each sector has to choose their represented ones, that then will speak at AIPC. That will not be something I decide".

The deinition is interesting because it accounts...

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