[governance] Going forward - Role of the governance caucus

[karen banks]

hi

I think it's a very good time to address broad CS (and not just WSIS 
CS) in the post WSIS implementation plans.

Some of you may have seen philippe's (CONGO) update on implementation 
ideas for the Geneva Action Plan in plenary.

There seems to be some interest in clustering the 11 action lines 
into a smaller number of more manageable and cohesive units (i guess 
there will always be fuzzy lines and overlap but nonetheless) - and - 
that CS has taken the step of advocating for real Multi-stakeholder 
groupings in providing facilitation/coordination of implemenation.

The current proposal from CONGO is to try to create a manageble set 
of events that address followup of the action plan - and the IGF 
related events should form a part of this overall plan.

We should be right now, ensuring that we don't contribute to creating 
structures and calendars of events that make it impossible for 
meaningful participation of CS,  except for those of us who have 
easier access and opportunity.

The idea of a multiplicity of working groups which can devolve from 
both the governance caucus, and all other caucuses - around areas 
which CS self-suibscribe to, makes sense. Clearly the Governance 
caucus and it's members will provide some degree of leadership in 
followup of the IGF, but i don't think the work needs to be 
centralised in this space.

APC has expressed interest in co-facilitating implementation of 
action line c2 - infrastructure - with anyone else interested - but 
clustered with a few other action lines that make sense.

addressing the question of issue focus of the IGF is a good 
opportunity to create a new space to faciliate input.. it could be 
lead by the governance caucus, shared with the plenary, with the 
possibility of  forming a smaller group of committed CS actors to 
work on gathering input from as broad a range of CS actors as 
possible before the end march deadline.

karen


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