[governance] CSTD draft resolution : paragraphs on enhanced cooperation and IGF improvements

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Dear all,

For information, please find attached the draft resolution prepared by the
CSTD on WSIS follow-up. This draft is transmitted for adoption by the ECOSOC
in July, hopefully with little - if any - modifications. The draft
resolution, if adopted by ECOSOC, will initiate two complementary processes
on, respectively, the process towards enhanced cooperation and possible
improvements to the IGF.

This was the result of truly intense negotiations but is only another step
in the long road towards collaboratively designing the interaction
modalities among all stakeholders.

The key paragraphs of the draft resolution related to Internet governance
are :

21. Recognizes that the Internet Governance related outcomes of WSIS, namely
the process towards 'enhanced cooperation' and the convening of the IGF, are
to be pursued by the UN Secretary General through two distinct processes and
further recognizes that the two processes may be complementary to one
another,

*Enhanced cooperation*

(...)

24. Invites the UN Secretary General to convene open and inclusive
consultations involving all member states and all other stakeholders to
proceed with the process towards the implementation of enhanced cooperation
in order to enable governments, on an equal footing to carry out their roles
and responsibilities in international public policy issues pertaining to the
internet, but not in the day-to-day technical and operational matters, that
do not impact on international public policy issues, through a balanced
participation of all stakeholders in their respective roles and
responsibilities, as stated in paragraph 35 of the Tunis Agenda. These
consultations will be held before the end of 2010, the outcomes of which
will be submitted to the 66th UN General Assembly for consideration through
ECOSOC;

*Internet Governance Forum*

(...)

30. Invites the chair of the CSTD to establish, in an open and inclusive
manner, a working group, to seek, compile and review inputs from all UN
member States and all other stakeholders on improvements to the IGF in line
with its mandate as set out in the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society,
and report to its next substantive session in 2011 with recommendations as
appropriate. This report is to constitute an input from the Commission to
the General Assembly, through ECOSOC, for consideration, should the mandate
of the IGF be extended,.

Best

Bertrand

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Bertrand de La Chapelle
Délégué Spécial pour la Société de l'Information / Special Envoy for the
Information Society
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes/ French Ministry of Foreign
and European Affairs
Tel : +33 (0)6 11 88 33 32

"Le plus beau métier des hommes, c'est d'unir les hommes" Antoine de Saint
Exupéry
("there is no greater mission for humans than uniting humans")
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