[governance] Impeding progress

Tue Mar 9 09:48:29 EST 2010

Of great importance within this movement is a straight forward declaration of need that is relevant to this IGF. 
"Currently, there are four separate women's entites within the UN system that are overlapping and compete for resources, impeding their ability to effectively address women’s needs worldwide: "
found here: http://sites.google.com/site/wilpfuno/gear

This rather bold statement sums up a serious IGF problem. It is this sort of problem that lends itself to "publish or perish" mentality. It seems that contributors here are targeting sources rather than causes. If the impetus for producing good work is a deadly combination of "offend no one" and "we are championing your cause" then how are we to take ourselves seriously?

--- On Tue, 3/9/10, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

From: Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Happy International Women's day to all! from
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:05 AM

Of course you should!  I will follow up with you offlist Shaila.

There is a very active group of women's organisations who have been in
engaging the Beijing process from a and ICT and media perspective.

Anriette

IOn Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:51 -0800, shaila mistry wrote:
> Hi Anriette
> I was not aware that there were any IT events there. I am there every
> year so I would like to be connected with them for next year 
> shaila rao mistry
>  
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> From: Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>To:
> "governance at lists.cpsr.org" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Sent: Mon, March 8, 2010 10:20:14 PMSubject: Re: [governance] Happy
> International Women's day to all! from
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> For some interesting interviews and reflections on the ICT angle at
> Beijing +15 and the Commission on the Status of Women meetings
> (proecued
> by the APC women's programme team in New York) you can visit:
> http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=f--e--1&nocache=1
> One of these posts makes a link to the importance of the IGF.
> 
> Best
> 
> Anriette
> 
> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 19:38 -0800, Eric Dierker wrote:
> > We all benefit from the devotion and diversity of good honest >
> movements like this one. It is a celebration of the good. We dwell so
> > much on the negative, we must hold in high esteem these fine women >
> that dwell on the positive.
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> > --- On Mon, 3/8/10, shaila mistry <shailam at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >        From: shaila mistry  Subject: [governance] Happy
> International Women's day to all! from Beijjing +15
> >        To: "governance" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>>        Date:
> Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:49 AM
> >        >        
> >        Happy International Women's Day 
> >        
> >        I am just back from the Beijing +15 and the  54 th Commission
> >        on Status of Women in New York where we celebrated the
> >        International Women s day  with the General Secretary Ban Ki,
> >        Moon.He gave a very encouraging speech of support and is
> >        working to help us with the New Entity for Women affairs.
> >        Since 2006, many of us including my self have been working on
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