[governance] IGC on its list

[Lee W McKnight]

Likewise I can't start a draft, but promise to criticize whoever does, I mean offer constructive suggestions for refinement : )
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From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [isolatedn at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 8:18 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Ginger Paque
Cc: William Drake
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC on its list

Hello Ginger,

I have a Diplo exam for the next two days, may not be able to propose a draft, but would be eager to partidcipate with comments and suggestions if someone proposes a draft.

Shiva.



On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com<mailto:gpaque at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I second Bill in repeating my invitation to anyone who would like to propose a draft for an IGC statement. I agree that we have time to reach consensus. Bill, did you have a first draft? Anyone?

Best,
Ginger

William Drake wrote:
Hi,

Skimming and deleting over morning coffee, a random thought occurs: is this still the listserv of the IGC?  It hasn't been obvious of late.  It's been quite awhile since there much traffic from people who are in the IGC discussing the sort of concerns for which we established the list seven years ago, and it's not like there are no live issues out there.  For example, do we not intend to submit a group statement on the IGF review by the July 15 deadline?  We had some preliminary discussion on this in May and people indicated a preference for some focused dialogue leading to a statement of more than a couple paragraphs outlining why the caucus favors renewal.  Given the rather variable inputs the UN and the IGF secretariat (for the Sharm synthesis paper) will be receiving from member governments, one would think this is an important thing to do.
Comments on the review process so far are at
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=FormalConsult032009ListView
(Great URL, I love the website ;-)

The questions we are asked to address are:

1. To what extent has the IGF addressed the mandate set out for it in the Tunis Agenda?
2. To what extent has the IGF embodied the WSIS principles?
3. What has the impact of the IGF been in direct or indirect terms? Has it impacted you or your stakeholder group/institution/government? Has it acted as a catalyst for change?
4. How effective are IGF processes in addressing the tasks set out for it, including the functioning of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), Secretariat and open consultations? 5. Is it desirable to continue the IGF past its initial five-year mandate, and why/why not?
6. If the continuation of the Forum is recommended, what improvements would you suggest in terms of its working methods, functioning and processes?
7. Do you have any other comments?

Surely we can manage answers to these in the next ten days, no?

Best,

Bill

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