[governance] A Group of ITU Members vs. the IGF

[Baudouin SCHOMBE]

Hello everyone,
This situation was predictable after Tunis since 2005. the Geneva Plan of
Action and the Tunis Agenda is the result of all actors: governments,
private sector, civil society, UN agencies, international organizations,
regional and sub regional ...
The ITU draws on totalitarian countries to avert civil society. What a
glimpse we are pushed to either ignore or to disregard the Geneva
Declaration of 2003 and the Tunis Commitment 2005.
We, civil society must react and move up a gear.
Russia, China and most African countries do not have a democratic culture
and the concept of "multistakeholderism" is grain of sand in the gears of
their system of corruption and poor governance.
It is imperative to react and move up a gear.
7 years of hard fighting, friends and colleagues are dead. I believe we must
honor their memory.

SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
*COORDONNATEUR DU CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL (CAFEC)
 ACADEMIE DES TIC
*COORDONNATEUR NATIONAL REPRONTIC
*MEMBRE FACILITATEUR GAID AFRIQUE
*NCUC/GNSO MEMBER (ICANN)

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2010/10/9 William Drake <william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch>

> Hi,
>
> This is related to the message I just sent concerning the ITU/GAC proposal,
> but it merits a different thread.  The list discussion has all been building
> off the Kevin Murphy piece Wolfgang circulated.  Alas, the article being
> ICANN-oriented did not bother to take note of another part of the RCC
> proposal that should be of some concern here.  The Russian text includes a
> section on The Future of the Internet Governance Forum that says, inter
> alia,
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> "The WSIS Forum 2010 was held in May 2010 in Geneva, and the venue for the
> next one, in 2011, is the United Nations headquarters in New York.  The
> question of Internet governance is just one of the many questions raised by
> WSIS, and it would appear logical that IGF should in future be held as part
> of the WSIS Forum in order for there to be a common platform for all
> stakeholders seeking to implement WSIS outcomes. This will serve to broaden
> the audience, particularly within developing countries, and reduce costs for
> organizers and participants alike. Proposal: To consider IGF as a part of
> the WSIS Forum in the interests of combining efforts, facilitating
> participation, especially for developing-country representatives, reducing
> costs and avoiding duplication of effort."
>
> So voila.  This isn't exactly news either, I had ITU staffers tell me in
> Tunis when the IGF was endorsed that "we'll be running this thing in five
> years."   There's always been a contingent of governments, generally the
> same ones supporting ITU uber ICANN, arguing that ITU should have the IGF;
> indeed, the Russians said this in Tunis, and insisted on the inclusion in
> the mandate of those provisions about ITU competence etc.  And Toure et al
> have in the past held up the WTPF, the WSIS Forum, etc as evidence that the
> ITU does this sort of thing better.   All of which harks back to our earlier
> debate on the WSIS Forum and whether it would be a swell idea to hold it in
> NYC where UN GA reps could see what a proper UN forum looks like, etc.
>
> Best,
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> Bill
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