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On Tuesday 19 October 2010 03:01 PM, William Drake wrote:
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<div>On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:02 AM, parminder wrote:</div>
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significant that the WSIS forum will not
be shifted to New York as was mooted. Could have implications for
negotiations around improvement/ changes to the IGF, likely to take
place in a few days at th UN Gen Assembly. This has further reduced the
chances of the IGF secretariat shifting </font>to New York, as is
feared by some. Parminder<br>
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I'm pretty surprised by this shift, as there have been statements at
the Plenipot in Guadalajara by governments with presumably good access
to the ITU secretariat that referred to the forum being held in New
York. One has to wonder about the coordination and who is really in
which loop, but as it's all non-transparent wondering is all we can do.
Would be interesting to know though if the concerns expressed by
non-state actors actually had some impact.</div>
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<div>How this may relate to the IGF issue is also hard to judge, but
it doesn't hurt.</div>
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One of the suggestion was to roll IGF up into the general WSIS forum,
which would still be very bad even if WSIS forum stays in Geneva, but
if WSIS forum had moved to NY, the pulls for IGF sect. to move to NY
would have been stronger.<br>
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In any case, the more important things that this decision to retain
WSIS forum in Geneva (more so in light of Bil's email about what he
heard at the ITU meeting) points to are<br>
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(1) In the UN system it is difficult to change status quos. It requires
a very high level of consensus to do so, and in the case of the more
problematic changes to the IGF that we often fear and discuss such a
level consensus is simply not there<br>
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(2) Developed countries are still very powerful players. Things are
very unlikely to move around if they dont like them to move around. <br>
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Parminder <br>
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<div>On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Izumi AIZU wrote:</div>
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Great that this worked out, a shared position should resonate.
Hopefully the WSIS Forum outcome is a harbinger...<br>
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<div>I'll be here.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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William J. Drake<br>
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Centre for International Governance<br>
Graduate Institute of International and<br>
Development Studies<br>
Geneva, Switzerland</div>
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