[governance] REVISION 5 Draft statement to UNSG on bypassing CSTD

[Deirdre Williams]

One last quibble - in the final document can we please follow the convention
of using the full form before we use the acronym for all acronyms?
Thank you.
Deirdre

On 23 February 2010 05:37, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> I am planning to open a 48 hours consensus call on this (or something very
> like it) later in the week.  At this point, most of the changes being
> suggested seem to be just changing the order or emphasis of points on which
> we are already agreed.  I am omitting the address and such from the top of
> the letter, but they will be included when it is sent.  Also to avoid doubt,
> the subject line of this thread will not be part of our message to the UNSG.
>
> AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE INTERNET GOVERNANCE CAUCUS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
> SECRETARY-GENERAL, BAN KI-MOON
>
> Your Excellency,
>
> The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) congratulates you on the
> completion and imminent delivery of your report and recommendations on the
> desirability of the continuation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF),
> based on formal consultations at IGF Sharm.
>
> We request that in the interest of an open and transparent process, and in
> accordance with established practice, these recommendations be made
> available to the annual session of the Committee on Science and Technology
> for Development (CSTD) in May 2010.
>
> Our request is in line with the views expressed by several government
> delegates at the open consultations on the IGF held in February 2010, to the
> effect that your report and recommendations should be presented to the CSTD
> before being considered by the ECOSOC and then by the UN Assembly.
>
> The CSTD is formally mandated to engage with all issues of WSIS follow
> up, and its specialized knowledge and history of engagement with WSIS
> issues, including the IGF, will provide the best basis for an informed
> consideration of the issue by the ECOSOC and the UN Assembly.
>
> The CSTD also provides relatively greater multistakeholder involvement
> than its parent body, ECOSOC, following its "strengthening ... taking into
> account the multistakeholder approach"  (Tunis Agenda, para 105) pursuant to
> ECOSOC decisions 2007/215, 2007/216, 2008/217 and 2008/218.
>
> We also respectfully remind you that your report on "enhanced cooperation"
> which was presented to the ECOSOC has been referred by the ECOSOC to the
> CSTD for its prior consideration.  This suggests that ECOSOC would normally
> prefer CSTD's views on issues of WSIS follow up before it considers them.
>
> Absent any reason for a departure from established practice, we therefore
> believe that your report and recommendations should be presented to the
> CSTD to enable widest possible discussion
> and engagement of all actors with this very important issue.
>
> Thank you for your consideration of this suggestion, for your leadership,
> and for your ongoing support of civil society's participation at
> the Internet Governance Forum.
>
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