[governance] Reconstituting MAG

[Parminder]

I must ask Lee and Bill if they do or do not agree with Meryem's
formulation.

The rules for membership of the MAG, including in terms of representation of
different stakeholders, should be clearly established, and made open along
with due justifications. Full civil society representation is necessary to
ensure legitimacy for this new experiment in global governance.

. There are seven civil society members at present in a MAG of 40, an
anomaly which should be corrected in this round of rotation of members.
We think that as per Tunis Agenda’s multi-stakeholder approach, membership
should be divided equally among governments, civil society and the business
sector.

. We also agree that [Intergovernmental organizations having a facilitating
role in the coordination of Internet-related public policy issues and]
International organizations having an important role in the development of
Internet-related technical standards and relevant policies should continue
to be represented in the MAG. However, their current over-representation
should be corrected.

( I personally suggest that the part within brackets be removed)


And their views on Ian replacing the last sentence

"However, their current over-representation should be corrected."

With

"However, their representation should not be at the expense of broader civil
society participation"

(my personal view, as first stated by Adam and supported by Bill, is that
they are really over-represented and perhaps we shd mention the fact. In
fact both of them, and I concur, seem to prefer giving a specific number 6
as the appropriate quota for them. In these interventions people do not take
notice of generalities, and it is better to say clear pointed things. Ian's
formulation may be too general which everyone can accept in principle
without it making any change whatsoever on the ground.)

(so, I still prefer mentioning over-representation, and mentioning the
number 6). 


Parminder 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meryem Marzouki [mailto:marzouki at ras.eu.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:04 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Reconstituting MAG
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Le 18 févr. 08 à 20:37, Lee McKnight a écrit :
> 
> > Meryem,
> >
> > I agree they're different. I'm just saying whatever their true
> > nature and purpose, for recognition at the global level they have
> > to at least claim they're serving general and not particular
> > interests.
> 
> As you may have noticed, I'm not entering this debate: some of them
> serve the general interest, other serve particular interest. That
> could also be claimed about some CS org, after all, or even to some
> governments. Thus, the point is not to qualify each of them, saying
> that this tech org rather serve general interest while that one is
> serving some private interest.
> 
> They just need to be there, but not as a stakeholder (with equal
> repartition of seats as we're asking for), but as organizations ad
> hoc to the field. I've already said this, but let me repeat that if
> we were discussing a global governance forum on say, environment,
> then we would find again gov, biz, cs + environment-related ad hoc org.
> 
> > So they don't count against the CS quota
> 
> They do, currently
> 
> > but hopefully are often on the same side.
> 
> Again, that's not the point I'm afraid.
> 
> > You see where I'm going with MAG 2.0: intl orgs + CS = 50%
> > (roughly); biz + govts = 50%.
> 
> :) or is it :( ?!
> 
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