[bestbits] [governance] Call for making the IGF permanent

[William Drake]

Hi

This has been reported and commented on a number of times but I guess it just doesn’t fit some preferred narratives.  WEF has been very clear in print and in word that they do not intend to stick their nose into norm-setting, they know they can have no hope of contributing there and it would get chopped off.  The idea has always been to carry forward on some projects where where mobilized resources would be required. These were mostly mentioned (albeit vaguely) in the panel report and in two cases in the NM outcome doc.  It’s reasonable to debate whether these are potentially useful projects, whether WEF is an appropriate platform on which to bring people together to work on them, whether the people doing them are the right ones, what kind of outreach and inclusion would be needed for the ms oversight committees and public input mechanisms etc., but debating things they have said clearly they will not be doing just seems unproductive.

BIll

On Sep 2, 2014, at 7:56 PM, Anne Jellema <anne at webfoundation.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:52 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> it is about institutionalising something that is supposed to crystallise the spirit (variously interpreted) of Net Mundial, as a/ the key global IG process.
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> Parminder, I'm not sure this is right ... it's very hard to read the tea leaves, but after listening to everything that was said in Geneva, I honestly don't think that WEF has much appetite to become or convene a norm-setting institution on IG with all of the (time-consuming, tiresome - from WEF's perspective) negotiation, consensus-building that evidently entails. I think the aim is to parachute quickly in with "action partnerships" that they hope will *indirectly* build developing country support for the multi-stakeholder approach. 
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> But in any case, I think I'm in agreement with you that the WEF initiative should not be allowed to appropriate any special status or aspirations in the IG realm - least of all by civil society.
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> Anne 
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