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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hi Jeanette</font><br>
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Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Parminder has (as usual) voiced my concerns
more eloquently than I earlier did. Even while there has been a MAG
meeting three times a year, important decisions have still been made
without reference to it. I worry that, as little authority as the MAG
has been allowed as it is, the Secretariat is at least likely to let it
out on a longer leash than the open consultation meeting. In my
personal (non-coordinator) view, management of the IGF is a case where
some (accountable, transparent) hierarchical structure is needed.
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As we perhaps all know by now, the MAG doesn't have any formal
authority. Decisions are taken by the UNSG, and this is where, in my
view, accountability for the IGF lies.
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Does this mean that we dispense with whatever authority - hard of soft
- MAG even has got now? I did not get the logic. Also since we are
discussing what we want, the issue is whether we want UNSG to make all
decisions by itself, or be strongly influenced by the advise of , and
in that way be accountable to, a representative multistakeholder group
- and through it be accountable to different stakeholders. I ask
specifically, what is your stand on this?<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4B54407A.4030602@wzb.eu" type="cite"><br>
To open up the preparatory part of the IGF to those who organize
workshops and are involved in main sessions is a very good thing in my
view. I think we will have a hard time to make non-civil society people
understand why we would opt for more rather than less hierarchy and
closed rather than open processes.
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I don't think that keeping the preparatory stage of the IGF closed has
any direct impact on the authority or responsibility of the MAG. I find
it unfortunate to relate these two issues.
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I find it even more unfortunate. I do not know why after so much
explanation it is still being projected that somehow we want more
closed MAG processes. I have kept saying we *do* want MAG processes to
be more open, and include greater outside participation. Jeremy also
nowhere said he wants them closed, did he. (In fact I know that he has
been seeking that MAG works on a publicly open e-list while, very
significantly, many of those who now are ready to experiment with
dispensing MAG did not support such a proposal. Chatham house rule has
been such a loved term. So who is for more openness?)<br>
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What we have been saying is to preserve the decision-making capacity
of MAG and not foreclose it. We have also said that if MAG is not there
to actually convert stakeholder's views into actual decisions, there is
little point in increasing participation, when, as you say, in any case
UNSG will decide whatever he wishes to. <br>
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Parminder <br>
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