[governance] IG caucus statement from Nov 13

[Vittorio Bertola]

Robert Guerra ha scritto:
> What are the issues with the "development-oriented" vision of the  
> forum.

Very briefly, we fear that that attribute might be used to focus the 
discussion on capacity building and digital divide efforts, but also to 
say "no, that's mission creep" whenever you try to talk about, say, 
privacy or freedom of expression or spam or cybercrime or other issues 
very relevant to the developed world. And that would be, IMHO, a 
disaster for us!
So, no problem in stressing importance for development etc, as long as 
it's pretty clear that the full range of broad-definition IG issues 
falls under the mandate of the Forum (at most, with the "no duplication 
with other institutions" clause).
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