[governance] SECOND DRAFT response to MAG questionnaire

Fouad Bajwa fouadbajwa at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 19:49:12 EDT 2010


Jeremy, can I request that each time a change is made or text included
to refurnish the statement again so that it can be seen as a whole
instead of in parts?

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> On 06/10/2010, at 3:31 PM, parminder wrote:
>
> On the question 6. How best to link with international processes and
> institutions?
>
> I think we need to propose ways beyond ensuring circulation of information.
> We should ask for real policy related engagements, whereby the IGF is able
> to give recs to these institutions in their area of policy making
> competence, and these other institutions are encouraged to bring policy
> issues on which they will like to have a larger debate/ dialogue to the IGF,
> and the IGF then reverts back on outcomes of the discussion/ dialogue. I
> also read some such intention in the Tunis Agenda para on IGF mandate.
>
> You'll note that at the top of my email I claimed that I had added new text
> to the answer to question 6 about this, but in fact I had accidentally
> omitted it and the text was identical to the first draft.  Here is what I
> had intended to add, based on suggested text from July, but you may have
> something better to contribute.
> "In either case, such summaries transmitted from the IGF need not take the
> form of recommendations (though in the rare event that a rough consensus had
> been reached on a particular issue, there is no reason why they couldn't
> take that form).
> A emerging model for this process is found in the "messages" or
> "recommendations" produced by national IGFs such IGF-D (Deutschland), and
> regional IGFs such as the East African IGF and EURODIG.  Ideally this would
> become a two-way process in which the institutions addressed could also turn
> to the IGF with issues they wished the IGF to address through
> multi-stakeholder dialogue."
> Also, point noted on the subsidiarity issue.  I'll remove that from the next
> version, unless others wish to speak up with a compelling counter-argument
> (Baudouin, perhaps? - that text was loosely based on your comments).
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