[CCWG-ACCT] Jurisdiction Proposed Questions and Poll Results

[Sam Lanfranco]

With regard to the ILO (International Labour Organization) I was first 
recruited to ICANN/NPOC based in part on my knowledge of the ILO. I 
worked for UNCTAD in Geneve but my office was at the ILO and I had 
considerable time to study the ILO.

John Laprise is correct. The ILO is not analogous. The ILO operates more 
like a multistakeholder think tank, where each stakeholder group (gov't, 
industry, labour) had a vertical representation process. For example, 
when discussing the global beverages sector the labour representatives 
do not "represent the interest of" workers in the beverages sector. They 
in fact "represent the workers" in a process of election and selection.

In addition to participants who are actual designated representatives of 
their constituencies, the ILO has no policy making authority. It can 
draft policy, say for maritime worker safety, but draft policy goes back 
into an multinational treaty/agreement process. ILO can lead but it 
cannot decide. ICANN is a very different, and quite novel, entity and 
probably the largest not-for-profit social business on the globe. If 
there are any lessons learned from the ILO they probably have to do with 
where they slot in expertise (academic, worker, or industry based).

Sam Lanfranco, NPOC/csih


On 12/19/2016 10:40 AM, John Laprise wrote:
>
> I don’t think the ILO is analogous. It doesn’t make policy/enter into 
> contractual relationships in the same way that ICANN does.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John Laprise, Ph.D.
>
> Consulting Scholar
>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jplaprise/
>

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