[governance] IGF Advisory Group

[Mawaki Chango]

Indeed, it looks weird that to prepare Athens/IGF-I*, one needs such
an army! How many people will be on the IGF istelf then?

Mawaki

(*) Am I mistaken on the nature of IGF-I? is it about Athens or the
first half of any life expectancy for the IGF? ...I've been off some
time and may have missed something.

--- Milton Mueller <Mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> 
> 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 Kleinw�chter
> <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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