[governance] New York - EC consultation

[Roland Perry]

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<AANLkTi=4t6YhD_xvBi6wF8c36wiY79k_ajFrgoin3-b7 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
03:17:21 on Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> writes
>Don't they leave out most of the stakeholders when they say CS with
>consultative status only?

I think the point is that everyone has had five years "amnesty" to 
decide if they want to apply for consultative status, currently (in some 
cases for longer) including: ICC, APC, IT for Change, Réseaux IP 
européens [my former client] and ISOC.

Of course, there's also been five years to persuade CSTD to allow a 
wider audience on a more permanent basis, for their WGs as well as their 
main sessions. And I think there's been progress here - they are having 
their third genuinely open consultation in a row later this week, even 
if the "drafting the communique" part has become a government-only 
group. And the main sessions last May had several "non-member" 
panellists invited to speak.

There's two strategies for any stakeholder group to develop - getting a 
proper seat at the table in the medium term, but also getting your 
opinions listened to in the short term. I'm not convinced that the 
latter is a huge obstacle as long as you approach it sensitively, and 
doing that successfully a few times often makes the former much easier.

>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

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Roland Perry
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