[governance] Re: governments first others later

[Izumi AIZU]

Anriette from APC just arrived, Bill Drake will come, and Parminder
to arrive late tonight, at least I am aware of. But not enough.

izumi


2010/12/17 Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>:
> Are there no other CS or IGC members present there with you Izumi?
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:
>> From what I heard at the reception hosted by US Permanent Mission in
>> Genea, the CSTD government folks need to resolve certain issues
>> before opening the door to civil society and the private sector. But that
>> itself indicates something.
>>
>> To me, CSTD is still very much operated in traditional UN fashion and
>> they see IGF as outside the UN system and are not ready to adopt
>> to some of the core innovations, let's say, of IGF.
>>
>> Certain government members, mostly mission people here in Geneva
>> are afraid of bringing civil society on equal footing to governments,
>> and that is like a flu or pandemic, widely shared by them according
>> to some people close to CSTD.
>>
>> Whether we like it or not, big "cultural" change or attitudes not to
>> accept the change is there.
>>
>> izumi
>>
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