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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 14 May 2013 08:42 PM,
michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">My congratulations to those chosen from all stakeholder groups to the MAG.
One observation however, based on a summary review of the list provided by
Bill--of the five individuals selected to the MAG to represent CS, all are
women and 4 of the 5 are from Latin America or the Caribbean.
I'm assuming that the UN in its wisdom (appropriately) applied criteria to
ensure gender and regional balance; however, rather than applying these
criteria within each stakeholder group they appeared to apply these to the
MAG as a whole; which given significant longstanding gender and regional
biases in other of the stakeholder groups, evidently resulted in the rather
odd absence of representivity within CS including an absence of
representation from Africa, Europe and North America among other anomalies.</pre>
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This is what the WG on IGF Improvements sought, and I quote from its
report.....<br>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">(a) The three
non-governmental
stakeholder groups should propose lists of candidates that
should be
balanced, including in terms of gender distribution and in
reflecting
the diversity of geographical distribution. This will enable a
wide
range of diversity within the MAG, especially those groups which
have
been underrepresented in the MAG, and be sufficiently large to
provide some flexibility when selecting MAG members.</font></p>
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should
identify and publicize the process that works best for their own
culture and methods of engagement and which will ensure their
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<font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">(c) The contribution of
lists of
proposed candidates for each stakeholder group should not be
restricted to one particular body.<br>
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The required transparency and documentation condition have not been
fulfilled till now.... IGC must urgently write to UNDESA and IGF
secretariat to do the needful, at the earliest. If CS isnt the one
demanding fulfilment of transparency requirements I dont know who
will...<br>
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parminder <br>
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