[governance] another comment I made on the function, Chair, Secretariat works

[Izumi AIZU]

I prepared the followings and read out now, after the coffee break.
I did not attribute this to CS IGC, but hope you all agree.

izumi


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Additionally, since the questionnaire did not ask this directly – it
is somewhere in between Q2 and Q3, I would like to mention the
following and seek for your support as an formal input to the CSTD
consultation.
That is the question of what should be preserved and enhanced from the
IGF works so far. In addition to what should be improved or added, as
new mechanisms.

I think that the success and achievements of innovative implementation
of multi-stakeholder works of IGF in the traditional UN context which
are not really easy I am sure, were very much driven by the Chair, Mr.
Nitin Desai and also the secretariat team, headed by Mr. Markus
Kummer. I think no one disagrees with this.

We feel this should also be included in the report not for any
diplomatic reasons per se, for certain practical reasons as well. In
view of coming new Chair and Executive Secretariat as Nitin and Marks
already indicated their retirement from IGF works, we like to identify
elements of IGF to be carried on by the new team. Extensive use of
online tools, webcast, audio and visual, transcripts, other tools for
remote participation, are all important parts of IGF. Today, for
example, we do not have remote participation, webcast which we had
thought it’s there. Seating arrangements, registration practices are
also all part of implementation for multi-stakeholder.

I am sure that the new secretariat will be given opportunity to
receive briefings from the existing team members before they leave so
that all the experiences and skills will not be lost and we start over
from scratch.
As the language of the questionnaire, and also that of text of UN GA
Resolution on IGF do not quite include the accomplishment of Nitin,
Markus and his team, I think it is more than appropriate to recognize
these.

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