[governance] IGF Advisory Group

[Milton Mueller]

This is not very good news. The group is too large, and heavily weighted toward governments. The large size of the group will make it unwieldy and political in its decision making process as opposed to a smaller, more collegial group. The large size will also detract from the accountability of individual actors on the group. Deliberations that should take place publicly in the forum will be played out in the Advisory Group. 

>>> Wolfgang Kleinwächter <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> 3/16/2006 12:45 PM >>>
Dear list,
 
as you can see from the IGF Website, the UN SG has decided to establish a "IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group" to assist him in preparing the IGF I. As you can see the group will have about 40 members from all stakeholders group. What I have heard so far is that governments, and in particular G 77, has agreed under the conditions that they will get 50 per cent of the seats, that is about 20. This means that we will have 10 each for PS and  CS. They have to include also the technical and academic community. There is a special reference to this group in the announcement.  
 
The announcement calls for proposals from stakeholders.  So somebody on this list should start an initiative to collect names and to launch a procedure for the idenfication of proposals. 
 
I think we should generate a list with about 15 names (including CS techies and academicians) to enable the SG to make the final decision taking into account geographical, gender and other diversity. Woman from the South are more than welcome.:-)))  
 
Best regards
 
Wolfgang
 
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