[governance] CONSENSUS CALL on statement to UNSG on bypassing

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Yes

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

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> 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 the IGF in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.
>
> 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 Commission 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 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and then
> by the UN Assembly.
>
> The CSTD is formally mandated to engage with all issues of follow up from
> the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), 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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