[governance] Fulfilling the Mandate of the IGF

[Parminder]

Hi all

 

Thanks Bill for initiating this discussion, and Ralf for taking it forward.

 

May I call upon the IGC, formally on behalf of co-coordinators, to
contribute your views to, and discuss issues regarding, the IGC sponsored
workshop on “Fulfilling the Mandate of the IGF”, over the next 2 weeks of
the run up to the IGF. The IGC members on the panel will take a keen note of
the discussions here in making their interventions. 

 

I understand that this workshop will be one of the most important ones at
the IGF, where we have will representatives from different interest groups –
govs, private sector, Internet community and CS – discuss this important
issue of how is the IGF fulfilling or not fulfilling the mandate that was
set for it by the Tunis Agenda, and what steps, in any, need to/ could be
taken in this regard, in a forward looking and multistakeholder manner.
Thanks.

 

Parminder 

 

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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: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:56 AM

> To: Bendrath, Ralf; Governance

> Subject: Re: [governance] Fulfilling the Mandate of the IGF

> 

> Hi Ralf,

> 

> Thanks for the input on the agenda of the IGC workshop.

> 

> On 10/24/07 4:51 PM, "Ralf Bendrath" <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 

> >> it¹s hard to see how

> >> it could devise even recommendations,

> > Wolfgang had the neat idea of multiple "messages" that could come out of

> > the coalitions' work or the IGF workshops and would not have to be

> > "adopted" by the final plenary.

> 

> We could take up this, and other alternative ideas...

> 

> >> /39. The forum could provide, for example, the following functions:

> >>

> >> a. inclusive dialogue, with a differentiated architecture allowing for

> >> peer-level interaction where appropriate, for example in Birds of a

> >> Feather, working groups, study groups, plenaries, etc.

> >> /

> >> [NB: Clearly a major difference here from annual meetings only.  Now

> >> even the term, working group, is verboten.]

> > But we have the dynamic coalitions.

> 

> But they're free floating and don't have the sort of institutionalized

> relationship to the IGF that sub-bodies of other IG collaborations have in

> terms of recognition and ability to input, per the long-ago recs of the

> MMWG.  Should we address that?

> 

> >> d. identification of weaknesses and gaps in the governance

> architecture,

> >> i.e. "orphaned" or multidimensional issues that do not fall neatly

> >> within the ambit of any existing body;

> > We're trying to address this for the privacy field (which is "orphaned"

> on

> > the global level) at WS25(SEC) in Rio.

> 

> Right.  But per the above, if you folks come up with some ideas, what then

> happens to them?

> 

> > What about support for "disadvantaged stakeholders"? I lost track on

> > travel fellowships etc. Are there any?

> 

> There's whatever Canada's doing, and someone at the ITU told me today that

> they are offering unspecified support to "18 people from almost 15

> developing countries, and 4 continents."  No reply yet as to whether any

> are

> nongovernmental.

> 

> >> The workshop will of course focus not on the above, but on the agreed

> >> mandate.

> > It still could make sense to refer to positions pre-Tunis, in order to

> > show where the TA content came from and to show as CS that TA is only a

> > lowest common denominator, while we asked for more and still want it.

> 

> Hence my reply to Adam.

> 

> Any other topical ideas?

> 

> Cheers,

> 

> BD

> 

> 

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