[governance] The seeds of change in the IGF

[Adam Peake]

At 12:43 PM +0100 2/22/07, Monika Ermert wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>during the press conference at the IGF stocktaking session


there was a press conference? 


>I raised the question with Nitin Desai if the 
>results of his report to the Secretary General 
>on the enhanced cooperation consultations he had 
>will be published or if there is the possibilty 
>that it will never be published. He said - again 
>taking one more step backwards - that it was not 
>a "report" but a "reporting back" and this might 
>well be considered as "internal".
>
>I confronted several country delegates with this 
>possibility, too and asked about their potential 
>reaction. One country official from a country 
>that had been consulted said that after being 
>consulted they did expect some feedback from the 
>consultation as a whole.
>Btw, Nitin Desai said he also has consulted with 
>non-governmental/private stakeholders.


He did.  I can't remember when, but during one of 
the meetings in Geneva last year he said he would 
be staying on in Geneva, had a room in the palais 
de nations and his door was open for meetings 
about enhanced cooperation. If people wanted to 
see him they should get in touch (my memory of 
this is not good, but that's the gist of it.) I 
don't know if he actively went to people he saw 
as experts on the issues, he may have.

Adam



>Best regards,
>
>Monika
>
>
>
>>>>>  jeanette at wz-berlin.de 2/20/2007 11:22 AM >>>
>>  Parminder wrote:
>>>>  We have received neither an acknowledgement,
>>>>nor any response. Parminder
>>>
>>>  From what I read in the transcript of the consultation on last
>>>  Tuesday, Nitin Desai did mention that "many others" had asked
>>>him about the state of things re enhanced cooperation. Since
>>>he has no mandate at the moment and as yet hasn't got any
>>>instructions from the new SG, he couldn't get say anything
>>>more specific.
>
>>  Well, in fact yes he _could_ say something more specific. He could say,
>>  "Thank you for your letter. I understand my responsibilities to all
>>  stakeholder groups and acknowledge your letter. I would like to respond
>>  but have no mandate (whatever the heck THAT means) blah blah....
>
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