[governance] New CSTD questionnaire on the IGF

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Jeremy,

My concern is related to the lack of civil society organizations who are 
actively participating within the IGF - CSTD process but who are quite 
active in the IG field at the national level, regional level, within the 
OECD, WIPO, Council of Europe, European Commission, ASEAN, APEC, or 
other processes. A discussion on the future of the IGF pop up in the 
last ICCP meeting at the OECD.

This discussion touch several areas beyond CIR, like Access to Knowledge 
/ Digital Education (copyright cops copyright enforcement agenda), 
Cybersecurity (Privacy, Freedom of Expression, Association), Child 
Protection (Privacy, freedom of expression).  A decision about a global 
IG space to discuss global Internet Public Policy issues with binding 
agreements need to involved, not only those who are members of IGC and 
participate in their own personal capacity, but also those organizations 
who are also actually working on the field, and who are not involved in 
the politics of what is going on here. Yes, the Librarians, the A2K 
movement, the privacy advocate community, the actual FOE organizations.

A few thoughts for an early Saturday morning

Katitza


On 11/6/10 8:49 AM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
> Thanks Jeremy. OK. I have one more additional comment. We should also 
> encourage organizations on their own to submit their own comments, 
> specially if there are so diverse points of view expressed on the 
> list. ????
>
>
>
> On 11/6/10 8:37 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>> In addition to the existing CSTD questionnaire on WSIS outcomes, the 
>> second questionnaire on IGF improvements has just been released at 
>> http://www.unctad.org/cstd.  Meanwhile, we've been informed that "due 
>> to diverging opinions", the composition of the working group has not 
>> yet been decided and that consultations about this issue are still 
>> underway.
>>
>> So until the CSTD's IGF working group is officially appointed, my 
>> suggestion is that the nominees that our nomcom put forward for that 
>> group should put their heads together and come up with a draft 
>> response to the questionnaire for us.  (In fact Izumi and I had 
>> discussed that they could do this for the earlier CSTD questionnaire 
>> too.)
>>
>> If this is OK with everyone, I'll set up another new mailing list for 
>> that group, and add the nominated members to it.  We'll ask them to 
>> put together a draft response to the questionnaire, and to run it 
>> past the main mailing list not later than 12 November (a week before 
>> the deadline).
>>
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