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

[Marilia Maciel]

Excellent contribution.

We discussed in the workshop about remote participation that took place in
Vilnius that our achievements in terms of democratizing the process (remote
participation is a good example) are built on fragile grounds.

There is no formal document that recognizes that remote participation and
IGF hubs are an integral part of the IGF. The opportunity that CS was given
to foster these bottom-up arrangenments is based on personal trust developed
throughout the years with Markus. We need to make sure that these
achievements are preserved by the next members of the Secretariat.

Best,

Marília

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> -----
> 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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