[governance] What next with the IGF Improvement?

Carlos A. Afonso ca at cafonso.ca
Wed Apr 6 17:33:39 EDT 2011


Yes, I like the idea of a WG on forensic analysis of the CSTD WG on 
Improvements to the IGF :)

--c.a.

On 04/05/2011 11:17 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 10:59 -0400, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> Parminder:
>>
>> I have scanned the Indian proposal and it seems (surprisingly to me)
>> like a very good one. The issue of “outcomes,” which I analyzed at
>> length in my book, is one that separates IGF “hawks” and “doves” from
>> the beginning. If you look at the original proposal for the structure
>> of IGF that we made at IGP, or Jeremy Malcolm’s book, there has always
>> been support within civil society “hawks” for a stronger institutional
>> development of IGF based on bottom up working groups and some kind of
>> recommendations.
>
> Though I've joked that I prefer to call them "hawks" and "weasels".
>
> Yes, it would be a shame if the Indian proposal dies here.  Perhaps we
> could bring it up again in a workshop this year?  How about:
>
> "A Post-Mortem on the CSTD Working Group on Improvements to the IGF"
>
> Perhaps the title is a bit morbid, but such a workshop could be an
> excellent opportunity to bring back the members of the CSTD Working
> Group from all stakeholder groups, to discuss the Working Group's (lack
> of) outcomes candidly.
>
> CSTD Working Group members on this list, would you be willing to attend
> the panel of such a workshop?
>
> Remembering that our deadline is only next Friday so we have to finalise
> our workshop proposals soon (and so far, there are none firmly on the
> table).
>
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