[governance] Action on Enhanced Cooperation, please

[Parminder]

Bill/ others

Does this text work


The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (CS-IGC) would like to
congratulate you for the very successful first meeting of the Internet
Governance Forum. A good amount of the credit for this goes to your personal
leadership, and that of your advisory team, as well as to the hard work put
in by the secretariat.

We are writing to you because we understand you were asked by the UN
Secretary General to begin informal consultations on how to start a process
of 'enhanced cooperation' on international public policy issues related to
the Internet.

The CS-IGC would appreciate an update on progress and news of the
current state of play with respect to "enhanced cooperation." In particular,
we would very much welcome information on

 (a) any concrete measures taken so far, for instance, any discussions and
consultations that have been held with governments and other stakeholders on
the substance and modalities of enhanced cooperation, and

 (b) the plans for involving civil society in the process as per the clear
mandate in paragraph 71 of the Tunis Agenda.

(ends)

Parminder 

________________________________________________
Parminder Jeet Singh
IT for Change, Bangalore
Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 
Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890
Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055
www.ITforChange.net 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Drake [mailto:drake at hei.unige.ch]
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:12 PM
> To: Governance
> Subject: Re: [governance] Action on Enhanced Cooperation, please
> 
> Hi Parminder,
> 
> 
> On 1/13/07 5:37 AM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> > The CS-IGC would very much appreciate an update on progress and news of
> the
> > current state of play with respect to "enhanced cooperation." In
> particular,
> > we would welcome information on (a) any concrete measures taken so far,
> and
> > (b) the plans for involving civil society in the process as per the
> clear
> > mandate in paragraph 71 of the Tunis Agenda.
> 
> FWIW, as it would be easy to simply reply to this formulation that no
> "concrete measures" have been taken, I'd suggested,
> 
> In particular, we would very much welcome information on a) any
> discussions
> and consultations that have been held with governments and other
> stakeholders on the substance and modalities of enhanced cooperation, and
> b)
> the plans for beginning to involve civil society in the process per the
> clear mandate in paragraph 71 of the Tunis Agenda.
> 
> Per Michael's point about realistic expectations and the limits of
> transparency, I wouldn't expect much of a substantive recap of the
> conversations, but it'd be nice to at least have acknowledgement that
> they've happened.  If even that's impossible, I guess it clarifies the
> meaning of CS' "involvement" in its "respective role."
> 
> Whatever,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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