[governance] Caucus Meeting Wednesday Night?

[karen banks]

hi

> > - Secretariat Location (Geneva?)
> > - IGF meetings (1 per year?)
> > - Steering Group (multistakeholder, of course)
>
>Does anybody disagree with
>
>*Geneva as location for the secretariat?

we would support geneva as the location for the permanent core 
secretariat, considering the points veni and bill raised  -

>* meetings once a year?

yes.. i think so - but this is only the 'milestone' annual meeting, i 
think we have to focus on the Process of the IGF as much as where the 
secretariat is based, or where the annual meeting might be held. By 
not doing so, it is totally reasonable to people to feel that the IGF 
will be totally northern centric. Although the annual meeting is an 
improtant milestone and will bring accountability to the process, 
what happens during an annual cycle for me, is more important. In 
some ways, i make the analagy with the preparatory prepcom process, 
and the summit events. Anyone going to the Summit, and not 
participating in the process, had an entirely different perpspective 
on the value and relevance of WSIS, from those who did participate in 
the process.

>Do people like the idea suggested in Malta to call the steering group/
>bureau rather a program committee?

we would not support a bureau - and would prefer not to use the term 
'steering xxxx' - but rather, programme committee(s), advisory 
groups, working groups..

karen

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