[governance] What happened?

[Lisa Horner]

Just to clarify - the FoE dynamic coalition has submitted reports every year.  For some reason they have not been posted on the IGF website despite requests to the secretariat for them to be put up. I'm nopt suggesting this is an expression issue though, just an administrative one.
 
All are welcome at the FoE DC meeting at 11.30 in the Siwa room - invitation below.  We can consider whether the coalition should take some kind of action on the ONI incident at the meeting.
 
All the best,
Lisa

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From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org]
Sent: Tue 17/11/2009 07:18
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Karl Auerbach
Subject: Re: [governance] What happened?



On 17/11/2009, at 8:53 AM, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On 11/16/2009 10:18 PM, Ian Peter wrote:
>
>>> 2. IGF Secretariat acted in response to a complaint from a member 
>>> state. In
>>> the UN system if there is any breach involved they have no choice 
>>> but to act.
>
> Is this a policy that is written somewhere that we can look at?

Markus's explanation does not reassure me at all.  If there are, 
indeed, policies about the user of banners, but they are not enforced 
except when a member state complains (I obtained photographic evidence 
of this last night, which I posted to the list), this opens the door 
to all manner of abuses such as that we witnessed this week.

There are many such policies at IGF that are honoured more in the 
breach than in the observance.  For example, dynamic coalitions are 
required to post annual reports on their activities in order to remain 
listed at http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/dynamiccoalitions.  
Yet, there are dynamic coalitions listed there that have not posted 
their reports.  Assuming that the coalition on Freedom of Expression 
and Freedom of the Media on the Internet is one of those that has not 
done so, China could have it removed.  Are we comforted that this 
would only happen because of the application of an existing policy?

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