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

Sat Aug 22 12:55:14 EDT 2009

Hello Fouad Bajwa,

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Being an active participant of the UNCSTD this year in Geneva, I would
> like to share that the CSTD members were not out of touch of the IG
> issues

Thank you for your response. I do understand that CSTD is fairly well
informed on IGF matters. I didn't say that the CSTD members would be out of
touch with IG issues. It is just that the IGF happens to be one of the
several issues that the CSTD is concerned about, so the members of the CSTD
might not have followed IGF deliberations in different forums as closely as
ICT ministries who are more directly concerned about IGF would have.

> and the draft resolutions that were prepared and then approved
> from the committee's members.

> This committee was also chaired by a
> member who is an active member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory
> Group MAG respectively and the deliberations made the members of the
> IGC were reflected in Markus's report that he read out and presented
> to the CSTD from the IGC Secretariat respectively.
>
> How governments nominate their members to represent their countries
> (Foreign Ministers or ICT Ministers) is solely upon member state
> countries of the UN and I believe that IGF or the ECOSOC has no
> influence over that and I think they shouldn't either.

No, neither the IGF nor ECOSOC would find it appropriate to influence how
the Member States nominate their representatives, nor would be in a position
to suggest that they may be nominated from ICT ministries. These are
internal affairs of the Member States and UN or any of its organs wouldn't
interfere. Nor did I say that we should ask the member states to change
this. That would be too much. What I suggested is that ICT ministries could
work to share their observations and positive views with the Ministry that
has nominated a representative to CSTD - in case it happens to be a
different Ministry.

> Yes you can communicate with your country's government and check into
> the issue

Our government has a very positive view about the IGF and is indeed very
thorough in its approach.

>
>
Thank you.
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

>
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Sivasubramanian
> Muthusamy<isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> > India.
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> >
> >
> >
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