[governance] IGC statement-questionnaire Final edits

[Parminder]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 15/07/2009, at 9:32 AM, Roxana Goldstein wrote:
>
>> I would like to suggest to add at point 7:
>> - the need of translation of the material, documents, etc., to as 
>> many languages as possible
>> - the need to continue working in the improvement of the 
>> participatory methodology, having as objective to assure equal 
>> opportunities for the participation, incidence and appropriation of 
>> the IGF for all -specially those of developing and under-developed 
>> countries and minoritarian groups-.
>>
>> And of course, I would like to add me and the organization I work at 
>> to the list of those who agree with and support this document -if 
>> possible-.
>
> Whilst these are important points, I think broadening participation 
> has been covered well already.
>
> As to the retention of "unconditional" in Shiva's text I don't think 
> it has passed the test of consensus.
I do however greatly agree with the spirit of why Shiva wants this word 
in. Agenda driven funds, specially for policy related bodies, can be 
worse than no funds at all. Can we agree to the term 'funds with no 
conditionalities' or 'funds with no strings' attached. It is common 
usage in international development aid discourse and also in case of 
institutional funding support for policy related bodies. I cannot 
understand why should we have problems with these nearly universally 
accepted terms, and the normative implications that they carry.

parminder

>
> Apart from that I do agree with Parminder that we should not at this 
> stage water the statement down by including new qualifying words like 
> "may need", "significant", etc, or by going soft on non-binding 
> outputs. Our opponents don't mince their words ("We don't think the 
> IGF should continue"), so why should we?
>
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