[governance] RE: IGF Review Consensus Statement for Consensus (latest version (McTim's changes)

[gurstein]

Clearly this is not a consensus position as it doesn't, as Ginger points
out, respond (or include) my (or Garth's) comments.

Before I go further it would be useful to hear from others in the group
concerning those comments.

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:52 AM
To: 'governance at lists.cpsr.org'; McTim; Michael Gurstein; YJ Park
Subject: IGF Review Consensus Statement for Consensus (latest version
(McTim's changes)


Now that the JPA statement is nearing conclusion, I ask for
agreement/disagreement on this IGC consensus statement about the IGF Review
Process. Below is the latest version proposed by McTim. Michael Gurstein
made some very good comments which have not been discussed or included in
the statement. If you do not speak up, may we take your silence for assent?

The UN WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) has been actively
engaged with the UN Internet Governance Forum, the outcome of the UN WSIS
global negotiation, from its beginning and congratulates the UN Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) on its successful implementation of the principle of
mutlistakeholderism from 2006 until the present.

The IGC believes that the IGF has raised awareness of both narrow and broad
Internet Governance issues among stakeholders involved in the IGF process by
providing workshops and dialogues based on the mutltistakeholder principle.
However, the IGC is concerned about the lack of participation by the
developing world in the IGF and the counter-proposal to creating an
exclusively intergovernmental forum driven by decisions instead of
discussion.

Since the value and effectiveness of the IGF are obvious, with
near-unanimous response that it should continue, we believe that the review
should focus on addressing the issue of more inclusive participation.

More importantly, the energy not needed in a review of the current process
could be spent in the search for ways to foster more active inclusion of
rarely heard and developing country voices through, but not limited to,
remote participation.

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