[governance] Way forward

[Izumi AIZU]

One of the items we need to discuss and decide today, tomorrow
and onwards is the "way forward", I hope that most of us will agree with.

Now that "Internet Governance Forum" is agreed to setup sometime
next year, I also hope that most of us will also agree that
we should continue our work as (CS) Internet Governance Caucus.

In order to be effectively involved with the forthcoming activities
around forum, and potentially the new process, I think we need
a better working process as again most, if not all, of us will agree.

I think it may be a mistake just to consider "who" should be
the next co-coordinators, or ask the current ones to continue,
and let them take care of most of our business without agreed
structure and method, rather, I think we should consider how
we organize ourselves together.

For that, perhaps, we may need to organize a small working
group, task them to write up a draft charter, a light, but
clear rules and guidelines to conduct our business, including
definition of the membership, setup working strucgture (say
council or steering group or whatever), together with Chair/
Coordinator and secretariat functions. Then we will discuss
about this draft, hopefully to reach good consensus in the
end, and then start to more formally organize it.

The forum itself will not start that soon, but the formation
process will begin shortly, and taking advantage of the time we
have between now and the creation of Forum, I hope we
can have a reasonable work to review and improve our work
in that way.

This is just a suggestion intending to start the discussion
not only here in Tunis but all of our online colleagues.

Thanks,

izumi

  

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