[governance] Draft statement on making IGF permanent

Wed Sep 3 03:57:15 EDT 2014

Thank you for sharing this draft.

I have only One comment: The request should include a 'Statement on Achievements and Developments by the IGF to date' in order to justify the request.

That is all for now.

Yassin

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From: Baudouin Schombe <baudouin.schombe at gmail.com> 
Date:03/09/2014  06:36  (GMT+02:00) 
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org,Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> 
Cc: discuss at 1net.org,Best Bits <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net> 
Subject: Re: [governance] Draft statement on making IGF permanent 

Hello all,

i give full supoort on this wonderfull initiative. According my agenda, I trust to all contribution and will be ready to sign final document.

2014-09-01 16:46 GMT+02:00 Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu>:
Hi all,

Stephanie Perrin and I have drafted a statement that asks the UN Secretary to consider renewing the mandate of the IGF on a permanent basis.

About 90% of the text are quotes from UN documents referring to the IGF and from the NetMundial Statement.

Our draft is intended to reflect the views of all stakeholders and perhaps get a broad endorsement at the end of the IGF.

Right now, it is just a draft. Changes are welcome.

We have set up a pad for editing:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/LQO468JD1K

For convenience we also paste the text into this email below.

The goal is to complete the editing before the end of the IGF.

Stephanie and Jeanette

Request for consideration to the UN Secretary General on permanence of the IGF

In 2005, the UN Member states asked the UN Secretary-General in the Tunis Agenda, to convene a meeting of the new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue—called the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). (Footnote: paragraph 72, Tunis Agenda)
The mandate of the Forum was to discuss public policy issues relating to key elements of Internet governance, such as those enumerated in
the Tunis Agenda, in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet in developed and developing countries. The Forum was not to replace existing arrangements, mechanisms, institutions or organizations. It was intended to constitute a neutral, non-duplicative and non-binding process, and have no involvement in day-to-day or technical operations of the Internet.
The Tunis Agenda also asked the UN Secretary-General to examine the desirability of the continuation of the Forum, in formal consultation with Forum participants, within five years of its creation, and to make recommendations to the UN Membership in this regard. At its sixty-fifth session, the General Assembly decided to extend the mandate of the IGF, underlining the need to improve the IGF “with a view to linking it to the broader dialogue on global Internet governance”.
In his note on the continuation of the Internet Governance Forum, the UN Secretary General confirmed that the IGF was unique and valuable. It is a place where Governments, civil society, the private sector and international organizations discuss important questions of economic and social development. They share their insights and achievements and build a common understanding of the Internet’s great potential.

The Secretary-General recommended that
(a) That the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum be extended for a further five years;
(b) That the desirability of continuation be considered again by Member
States within the context of a 10-year review of implementation of the outcome of the World Summit on the Information Society in 2015;

Footnote: (General Assembly, Sixty-fifth session, Item 17 of the preliminary list*,  Information and communications technologies for development, Economic and Social Council, Substantive session of 2010 New York, 28 June-23 July 2010, Agenda item 13 (b)**)
The NetMundial Meeting, convened by the Government of Brazil, stated in the NetMundial Multistakeholder Statement on April 24th, 2014, that there is a need for a strengthened Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Important recommendations to that end had already been made by the UN CSTD working group on IGF improvements. The NetMundial Statement also stated that “a strengthened IGF could better serve as a platform for discussing both long standing and emerging issues with a view to contributing to the identification of possible ways to address them.”

Given the significance of the Internet Governance Forum for the continuing development of Internet governance, we request the UN Secretary General to  establish the IGF as a permanent multistakeholder forum.  We also request that the UN Secretary General work with the IGF and its stakeholders to strengthen its structure and processes.

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