[governance] Re: AW: [tt-group] FW: GAID

[William Drake]

Hello

I understand George's perspective, it's hard not to be frustrated and  
a bit cynical about the way things played out with GAID, although to  
me it's more a matter of missed opprtunities to have a useful and  
inclusive space in the UN for ICT4D than of wasted resources (costs  
were a drop in the bucket, really).  The fact that per Michael we  
can't really know what's going on within the UN with the next (if any)  
steps is symptomatic of the long standing problems. Re: Wolfgang's  
suggestion, I would be rather surprised if the ITU were to accept  
making it's "forum" an open multistakeholder process rather than a  
showpiece for itself, they could have done this already and have  
showed no inclination.  And It might be risky given the stuff with IGF  
etc. But perhaps it'd be a good way to call their bluff and feed into  
the Plenipot discussion...?

Bill

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On Dec 23, 2009, at 3:54, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.d 
e> wrote:

> Dear list
>
> one opportunity to have a more strategic brainstorming around a  
> reasonable Follow up of GAID could be the IGF consultations in  
> February in Geneva. I propose to have on Wednesday, February, 10,  
> 2010, over lunch (1315 - 1500) a meeting of people present in  
> Geneva. We had a similar meeting last year (in the ITU Montbrillant  
> Building) where we identified an "identity crisis of GAID" with no  
> consequences after the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Bill and  
> Sarbulan was online from NY.
>
> Any proposal?
>
> BTW I could imagine to move the "WSIS Forum", which is emerging from  
> the annual meetings of the Actions Lines, into something which could  
> absorb previous UNICTTF/GAID activities. My impression is that so  
> far the "WSIS Forum" is mainly in the hand of the ITU and other  
> IGOs, having the lead position in the Action Lines. The WSIS Forum  
> could be further "multistakeholderised" and the responsibility to  
> organoze the meeting - convened by the UN/ITU/UNESCO/FAO/ILO - could  
> go to a MAG like group. Do not forget that 2010 makrs half way  
> towards 2015m the dateline for the Geneva and Tunis Commitments.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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