[governance] CSTD

[William Drake]

Hi

While I agree that the mandate is not exhausted by the performance reports and that a meeting could be useful, I had a different concern in this meeting, about the very restrictive way some governments and orgs and choosing to read the TAIS.  They kept citing para 69 alone as the definition and saying that moves like establishing the ITU dedicated group on IG implement the mandate, but para 71 makes clear that EC is suppose to be multistakeholder, which the dedicated group is not.  Purely intergovernmental processes from which non-state actors are excluded are not EC, in my view, and I wish this point had been raised forcefully.

Cheers,

Bill



On May 22, 2010, at 10:34 AM, parminder wrote:

> 
> Enclosed is a statement made by IT for Change to the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, on the first day of its 5 day sitting. More on this later. 


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