[governance] CSTD

[William Drake]

Adam,

On May 29, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Adam Peake wrote:

> At 2:39 PM +0200 5/29/09, William Drake wrote:
>>
>>
>> Among whom would the binding conditions be agreed?  In what form?  
>> How would their implementation be monitored and assessed?  What  
>> consequences would flow from failure to implement?  And so  
>> on...we're not going to get consensus on a statement that's based  
>> on abstractions and leaps of faith.  What's really needed is some  
>> serious brainstorming on 3.0 architectural options that are  
>> responsive to what goes on within the organization and to the  
>> growing intergovernmental machinations outside of it (witness this  
>> week's CSTD meeting etc).
>
>
> What machinations were these?  Could you summarize?

I never responded to you as Anriette promptly sent an update on CSTD,  
but there was a lot of maneuvering among the usual governments to  
establish that enhanced cooperation is a preeminently if not entirely  
intergovernmental affair, in which the ITU is playing a lead role; and  
to downplay if not diss the contributions of the IGF and the arguments  
for its extension.  Anriette, Guru and Bertrand sat through more of  
these sessions than I and could provide more detail.

I just received from the secretariat the final resolution (well, it's  
a 'draft' until adopted by ECOSOC I guess) on "Assessment of the  
progress made in the implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes  
of the World Summit on the Information Society."  Not as bad as it  
could have been, thanks to friendlies and fellow travelers who pushed  
back.  A few highlights:

ECOSOC

14.  Reaffirms the principles enunciated in the WSIS that the Internet  
has evolved into a global facility available to the public and its  
governance should constitute a core issue of the Information Society  
agenda. The international management of the Internet should be  
multilateral, transparent and democratic, with the full involvement of  
governments, the private sector, civil society and international  
organizations. It should ensure an equitable distribution of  
resources, facilitate access for all and ensure a stable and secure  
functioning of the Internet, taking into account multilingualism;

15. Notes the discussions in the IGF as a multi-stakeholder platform  
on public policy issues related to internet governance which were  
observed by the UN SG in his report, expresses appreciation for the  
work done by the Chair, the Secretariat and the host Governments of  
the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and looks forward to the  
convening of the fourth meeting of the IGF in Egypt; [no positive  
adjectives but no negatives either]

16. Encourages all stakeholders to contribute to the online  
consultations regarding the “desirability of the continuation” of the  
IGF as envisaged in paragraph 76 of the Tunis Agenda and to give  
consideration of the stakeholders in under-developed areas that could  
not get connected online and urge the UNSG to take all appropriate  
measures to consult the stakeholders at a broad basis;

17. Notes that paragraph 80 of the Tunis Agenda refers to development  
of multi-stakeholder processes at the national, regional and  
international levels; [good this was inserted]

18. Recognizes the contribution of WTSA08 towards enhanced  
cooperation; [ ITU gets only the specific mention as contributing to EC]

19.  Notes the conclusion of the UNSG on the basis of performance  
reports from 10 organizations relevant to Internet Governance, that  
while the efforts made varied in nature between the different  
organizations, the performance reports suggest that the Tunis Agenda's  
call for enhanced cooperation has been taken seriously by these  
organizations, and requests the Secretary General to report to ECOSOC  
through CSTD on the progress towards enhanced cooperation;  [since  
these included non-intergovernmentals, the EC as exclusively  
intergovernmental premise looks even more odd]

36. Encourages the WSIS action line facilitators to increase their  
efforts to include all stakeholders in the facilitation process on  
implementing the WSIS action lines and to further enhance the  
interactivity of the process;

Anyway, thought I'd share this FYI.

Bill____________________________________________________________
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