[governance] MAG mandate extended, call for new members: deadline

[Parminder]

> Not formal or legal accountability, but yes otherwise: "members need to
> be willing to reach out and ensure continuous flow of information to and
> from interested groups..." Far beyond just being a PoC.

Right.

Either one does 'not' believe in political accountability at all - which
means one doesn't believe exercise of social power should be accountable.

Or one believes (and invests) only in absolute formal and legal political
accountability - the kind seen in working of governments. 

Or, one (also) believes in more diverse, diffused and nuanced forms of
political accountability appreciating the (increasingly greater)
complexities of political and social power in our society, and its sources
of legitimacy, in which case terms like accountability and
representativeness also take correspondingly nuanced meanings, which are
continuously constructed and de-constructed.

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Afonso [mailto:ca at rits.org.br]
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:22 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Suresh Ramasubramanian
> Cc: 'Parminder'; 'Adam Peake'
> Subject: Re: [governance] MAG mandate extended, call for new members:
> deadline
> 
> Not formal or legal accountability, but yes otherwise: "members need to
> be willing to reach out and ensure continuous flow of information to and
> from interested groups..." Far beyond just being a PoC.
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > That actually doesn't translate into *accountability*.
> >
> > Whoever is nominated serves as a PoC for multiple stakeholder groups he
> may
> > be linked to is all that's said here.
> >
> > 	suresh
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
> >> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:37 AM
> >> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Adam Peake'
> >> Subject: RE: [governance] MAG mandate extended, call for new members:
> >> deadline May 21
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I find the following part form the UN press release significant, and
> >> also
> >> relevant to some of the discussion we have on CS and IGC sponsored MAG
> >> members on this list.
> >>
> >> " All members serve in their personal capacity, but are expected to
> >> have
> >> extensive linkages with relevant stakeholder groups.  Members need to
> >> be
> >> willing to reach out and ensure continuous flow of information to and
> >> from
> >> interested groups.........."
> >>
> >> Earlier, if I remember right, it was only 'serve in their personal
> >> capacity'. Some kind of representative aspect is now clearly built in,
> >> and
> >> also post- nomination accountability in form of clear proof of
> >> willingness
> >> to reach and out and ensure continuous flow of information to and from
> >> interested groups...
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Parminder
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
> >>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 9:44 PM
> >>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> >>> Subject: [governance] MAG mandate extended, call for new members:
> >> deadline
> >>> May 21
> >>>
> >>> Markus Kummer just sent a note to the MAG list about the group's
> >>> mandate: the mandate's been extended, and the secretariat is now able
> >>> to issue a formal call for new members.  The deadline will be May 21.
> >>> More about this on the IGF website soon.
> >>>
> >>> Nitin Desai has been asked to continue as chair.
> >>>
> >>> Press release below. The secretary general accepted the MAG's advice
> >>> from the February meeting about rotating up to one third.
> >>>
> >>> (as this list has a delay I expect I won't be the only one sending
> >>> this info...)
> >>>
> >>> Adam
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/pi1829.doc.htm
> >>>
> >>> MANDATE OF ADVISORY GROUP OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM EXTENDED
> >>>
> >>> The mandate of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet
> >>> Governance Forum has been extended.  The Special Adviser for Internet
> >>> Governance to the Secretary-General, Nitin Desai, has been asked to
> >>> continue as the Chairman of the Advisory Group, which will meet again
> >>> on 13 to 15 May in Geneva before handing over to a renewed group to
> >>> prepare the next Internet Governance Forum meeting in Hyderabad,
> >>> India, on 3 to 6 December.
> >>>
> >>> The Advisory Group will renew up to one third of its members within
> >>> each stakeholder group.  All relevant stakeholder groups,
> >>> representing Governments, private sector and civil society, including
> >>> the academic and technical communities will submit names to the
> >>> Internet Governance Forum Secretariat.  All members serve in their
> >>> personal capacity, but are expected to have extensive linkages with
> >>> relevant stakeholder groups.  Members need to be willing to reach out
> >>> and ensure continuous flow of information to and from interested
> >>> groups and to participate actively and constructively in the Group's
> >>> work.  More details are available on the Internet Governance Forum
> >>> website:  www.intgovforum.org.
> >>>
> >>> The Internet Governance Forum is an outcome of the Tunis phase of the
> >>> World Summit on the Information Society, which took place in 2005.
> >>> In the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, Governments asked
> >>> the Secretary-General to convene a "new forum for policy dialogue" to
> >>> discuss issues related to key elements of Internet governance and set
> >>> out the Forum's mandate.
> >>>
> >>> The Forum's first two meetings took place in Athens in November 2006
> >>> and in Rio de Janeiro in November 2007.  A stock-taking session in
> >>> Geneva on 26 February 2008 showed broad support for a continuation of
> >>> the multi-stakeholder preparatory process.
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