[governance] Draft response to MAG questionnaire

[parminder]

On Wednesday 06 October 2010 07:27 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> I agree that this is very important, but perhaps can be more conveniently included in one of our next two submissions: we will shortly have one to the CSTD review of the IGF, and another on Enhanced Cooperation to UNDESA.  The MAG questionnaire doesn't directly throw up issues of the development orientation, but is more about process.
>    

The development dimension to MAG will be that MAG takes on enough 
members that represent development constituencies and marginalized 
groups (becuase it is highly unlikely that the really marginalised 
groups - the really poor, the most discriminated against women, the most 
excluded disabled - will themselves ever be taken on the MAG). These 
constituencies can only be represented through organized groups working 
with and for them. I see very little, if any, representation of such 
groups in the MAG, or in general in the IGF, or even more generally in 
IG spaces, which is a key concern.

Also we can specifically ask that MAG that when it prepares the IGF's 
agenda, and priortises issues, it should prioritise issues which 
directly concern the interests of these marginalized groups, and this is 
important, and mostly neglected at present, as they and those working 
with them see these issues, and not from-the-top experts, often 
technical experts.

I was more than a bit shocked with the kind of extra-ordinarily 
interpretations that some panel speakers in the IG for development 
session were giving to the concept and practise of development - things 
like IG for development must be about development of the Internet 
(!!!!!) , and that when we speak about development we should speak about 
development in the North and the South together, in the same vein, quite 
unmindful of the deep structural issues that characterise 'the 
development situation' in the South. One should recognize that poverty 
and development are not synonymous, and the latter refers to some 
specific, through broad, historical social conditions and structures.

Parminder


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