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

[Eric Dierker]

I had just finished reviewing some of these core docs over at  http://www.unctad.org/sections/wcmu/docs//ecn162008_r003_en.pdf
 
And had the pleasure of Tel visit with a friend up at Berkeley that I will visit tomorrow and found an interesting issue, which you highlight here.  You do not mention a real why?  Why this program should be continued. Oh fine, because of contributions, because of great folks here,,,,  but that is not part of the mandate that I can find.  My understanding of Academia's role connected with WSIS, and Role of CSTD in the IGF review process was not to promulgate but discover. Not to say what should be done, but to say what is desired by those who would be governed. To boldly go into the Internet community as it were and is and discover what the needs of the people were and are and will be. I think the peoples' desire was in there also, not just what we think they need but what they want.
 
If you show me that I am wrong I will go away and leave this list in peace.  I am talking wrong in the general idea and direction that the representatives wanted us to go. Not wrong in phraseology.  Otherwise I will go with my children's' adaptation of; Bad things happen when ______ women stay silent.

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
Subject: [governance] Role of CSTD in the IGF review process.
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 7:41 PM


Hello All,

I was at the European Summer School of Internet Governance 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.
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