[bestbits] [governance] Second WGEC meeting26-27 January 2017, Geneva

Fri Jan 27 12:38:08 EST 2017

Warm greetings Anriette,
In the morning there was reference in the semblance that enhanced cooperation is a government area not for the IGF...MAG.Would you kindly shed light. 

The comments;-  that statistics in developing countries are a result of tradeoffs and thus not (necessarily) reliable- how an entity is considered multi-stakeholder in one forum and in other spheres not viewed as such. Taking into account multi-stakholderism is a key tenet in Internet Governance
Many thanks for the briefs.

Be blessed.
Regards/Wangari ---
Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".

 On Friday, 27 January 2017, 18:22, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro> wrote:

 I think expectations should be low. To be honest, the intergovernmental “action” on most issues has migrated to those processes where there is a mandate for a given area of work - trade to the WTO, INTERPOL/UNODC for crime, etc. 

On 27 Jan 2017, at 15:38, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
I am afraid that we won´t  see big progress. Too many delegates fight the battles of yesterday. It needs much more political will (from all stakeholders) to look beyond the good language of Tunis and to draft a "enhanced Internet Governance Agenda 2025". 

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I also thank you, Anriette and all those who are in cold Geneva, working
hard for this rather difficult to tackle issue of Enhanced cooperation,
still.

Please keep the good work,and share your views on where it is going
further, if any.

izumi

2017-01-27 18:34 GMT+09:00 Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>:

Dear Arsene (apologies for cross posting)

Thanks for this. The first day went relatively well, if very slowly.

Follow @sgdickinson for updates.

We talked mostly about the 'characteristics' of enhanced cooperation.

Representing civil society in any unified way is not really possible as
not all the civil society participants share the same position. We do
share concerns and values and there is a good working spirit between
those of us who are here (Parminder Jeet Singh, Richard Hill, Carlos
Afonso, Lea Kaspar, Jovan Kurbalija and also observers such as Wolfgang
Kleinwaechter, Puneet Nagaraj and Marilia Maricel). We have not had a
civil society meeting of any kind yet.

That we have different positions (e.g. on what mechanisms are needed for
enhanced cooperation, and whether it is about cooperation between
governments, or between governments and other stakeholders) is also not
a bad thing in my view. And there are some views we have in common. But
we cannot say there is a united civil society position at this point.

Cooperation between governments is important.

Cooperation among all stakeholders is also important.

Civil society influence is essential.

Preventing capture from any one government or group of governments or
stakeholder group, e.g. business, is also important.

I am hoping that discussing how we see enhanced cooperation and how and
where governments should talk about internet-related public policy, even
if we have different emphases and proposals would be useful.

Last word ... Geneva is cold!

Anriette

On 25/01/2017 13:11, Arsène Tungali wrote:

Thanks Anriette,

Please do keep us posted of anything relevant to CS. And should you need

anything from us, do not hesitate

Go and represent!

Arsene
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Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sent from my iPhone (excuse typos)

On Jan 25, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>

wrote:

Dear all

I am in Geneva for the second meeting of the CSTD (Commission on Science
and Technology for Development) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation
(WGEC).

APC's and other inputs from members of the Working Group and from
observers are available on the WGEC site:
http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=1215

CGI.br produced a synthesis document of the inputs which you can access
here:
http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/WGEC2016_

m2_synthesis_en.pdf

The provisional agenda is here:
http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/cstd2017_

WGEC_2_Agenda_en.pdf

Any comments or suggestions welcome. I will try to keep you posted.
Remote participation is only open to people who registered in advance.
You can try to register here as observers: https://reg.unog.ch/event/

17618/

Meeting starts tomorrow.

Best

Anriette

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