[governance] Comments - afternoon, Friday

[Vittorio Bertola]

Il giorno lun, 20/02/2006 alle 09.40 -0500, Milton Mueller ha scritto:
> >EQUALS.  ALL REGIONS SHOULD BE REPRESENTED.  MUCH WE CAN ALL LEARN
> >FROM WGIG PROCESS IN TERMS OF SELECTION AND COMPOSITION, BUT
> >ESSENTIALLY MORE BALANCED IN TERMS OF REPRESENTATION.  WE ARE VERY
> >AWARE OF THE DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE OF THE FORUM.
> 
> I would prefer that you strike the WGIG reference, and that you add
> something about keeping it small. No more than 15.

Actually, plenty of governments made quite clear that they don't see it
feasible to have less than 15 gov reps as a very minimum, due to their
internal balance problems. If we insist on making it small, I am sure
that the ones to disappear from the Committee would be the
non-governmental people, not the governmental ones... or that they would
go for the solution that most developing countries are pushing, i.e.
three separate bureaus, as it was in WSIS, "so that each of them is more
manageable". Needless to say that the CSB and PSB would then become
completely meaningless.

> The idea is that the PC should be a minimal size required to
> represent, but should also have very limited powers. E.g., PC does not
> "pick" themes and force us to discuss them, it simply approves and
> prioritizes themes proposed by Working Groups.

Agree.
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