[governance] Role of CSTD in the IGF review process.

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello All,

I was at the European Summer School of Internet
Governance<http://www.euro-ssig.eu>at Meissen recently and happened to
have an informal conversation with one
of the faculty members who happens to be an individual who values the IGF as
much as we all do.

Most of us in this list have contributed to a positive review of the IGF and
almost all of us believe that the IGF should continue. We have given our
inputs, but the process of decision making requires inputs from the CSTD of
ECOSOC.

CSTD  ( http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=4239&lang=1 ) has
to make a recommendation to the UN to renew the mandate for the IGF. So, in
a sense this is an important and crucial step in the review process.

The CSTD is a body with representatives named by the foreign ministries of
the governments. Tradionally IGF participation is from the ICT ministries of
most governments. So, what is closely followed by the ICT ministries might
only have been very broadly followed by the Foreign / External affairs
ministries.

What needs to be done is to impress upon the foreign minsties / CSTD
nominees of our Governments that the mandate for IGF needs to be renewed.
Some of the participants of this list are well connected. Would it be
possible to think of reaching out to the CSTD delegations through the
Foreign Ministries with help from the ICT Ministries?

This is a bit of a diplomatic exercise that is necessary.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy.
India.
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