[governance] New York - EC consultation

[Fouad Bajwa]

Don't they leave out most of the stakeholders when they say CS with
consultative status only?

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Roland Perry
<roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
> In message <AANLkTi=p2CSi6B7FkCqYrKaOq_fpEhT8CyN44SBQp7gT at mail.gmail.com
>>, at 00:43:12 on Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
> writes
>>But so far from the consultation webcast, I wasn't able to gather what
>>his conclusion of that meeting was.
>
> There's no conclusion yet - the deadline for submissions was extended to
> 31st December about a month ago.
>
> A letter sent on the 15th November said "The consultations are expected
> to result in a set of ideas, opinions and comments on processes for
> pursuing enhanced cooperation... These inputs will be synthesised by the
> Secretary-General and submitted as a report to the UN GA 66th session
> through ECOSOC".  That's end of 2011.
>
>>The upcoming consultation in Geneva may have something more substantial
>>I guess.
>
> There isn't a timeline for any more meetings on Enhanced Cooperation,
> other than the report above may surface at next May's CSTD (14th
> Session), for onward submission to ECOSOC and the GA (just like this
> year's IGF renewal process, which involved a fight over pre-releasing a
> report from the Secretary General based on the UnderSec's famous
> consultations in Sharm). Or it might go straight to ECOSOC (in June
> usually).
>
> ps. Might be relevant to point to this document, which I think's still
> current:
>
> "Information for civil society entities that were accredited to WSIS and
> are interested in participating in the work of CSTD regarding the follow
> up to WSIS"
>
> <http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Download.asp?docid=9128&lang=1&intItemI
> D=4839>
>
>>On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Roland Perry
>><roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>>> In message <0+ImbzJCiJCNFA73 at internetpolicyagency.com>, at 10:29:22 on Wed,
>>> 15 Dec 2010, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> writes
>>>
>>>> The chair's view was that the ECOSOC resolution, which 'invited' him to
>>>> call the meeting, had defined Enhanced CoOperation and IGF as two separate
>>>> projects ("if you want to change that - pass a new resolution").
>>>
>>> Here's the relevant part(s) of the resolution:
>>>
>>> 21.     Recognizes that the Internet Governance related outcomes of WSIS,
>>> namely the process towards 'enhanced cooperation' and the convening of the
>>> IGF, are to be pursued by the UN Secretary General through two distinct
>>> processes and further recognizes that the two processes may be complementary
>>> to one another,
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> 24.     Invites the UN Secretary General to convene open and inclusive
>>> consultations involving all member states and all other stakeholders to
>>> proceed with the process towards the implementation of enhanced
>>> cooperation...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roland Perry
>
> --
> Roland Perry
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