[governance] Re: ITU IG Resolution

[Ralf Bendrath]

Forwarded on behalf of Monika Ermert.

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Subject: Fw: Re: [governance] ITU IG Resolution
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:53:48 +0100
From: Monika Ermert <m.ermert at gmx.de>
Reply-To: Monika Ermert <m.ermert at gmx.de>

>> as one could have anticipated there is very little
>> space envisaged for Civil Society input despite the cosmetics,

> I thought they are working on it?
> Can anyone tell us more about the debate on CS inclusion beyond what is in
> the declaration?

There is a special resolution on the question of a multistakeholder 
particiation in the ITU, based on a proposal by Argentina and Switzerland 
who also chaired the ad-hoc working group on that issue.
Debates about the question to open up according to the 
multistakeholder-model were quite intense even if the proposal is careful 
in first asking for a study.

Result in short: "to conduct a study of the participation of all relevant 
stakeholders in the activities of the Union related to WSIS;" and "that 
all measures regarding the participation of relevant stakeholders in ITU’s 
activities related to WSIS shall respect the agreed strong development 
orientation of the UN system-wide follow-up of WSIS"

According to my understanding there is a clear focus on WSIS issues - not 
on ITU in general, on the contrary the intergovernmental nature of ITU is 
underscored in the resolution.

Other relevant resultions (one on IDN, that even talks about regional root 
servers in one sentence, on on WSIS follow-up, one on security); there 
might be others.


Best,

Monika

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