[governance] Meeting report ECOSOC presentations

[Roland Perry]

In message <4E36520D.9010207 at ciroap.org>, at 15:13:17 on Mon, 1 Aug 
2011, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> writes

>>    The Dynamic Working Coalition for Internet Governance Mapping, of 
>>which     I am a part, is about to launch a survey of civil society 
>>organisations     to ascertain their interest in participating in 
>>bodies such as     the CSTD     that are currently closed to them.
 >
>  Have those bodies been refused entry to CSTD meetings, even with the
>  current "exceptional" rules?
>
>Maybe or maybe not,

I'll take that to mean "they haven't actually asked".

> but the survey is broader and looks at all of the barriers that impede 
>participation in institutions that discuss policy for the information 
>society. 

A survey of all such institutions is a good idea. I was wondering why 
you'd apparently singled out CSTD, when I've found it to be one of the 
more open.

> Formal accreditation rules are only one such barrier of many. 

In practice, getting hold of the agenda (so you know when to attend[1]) 
and knowing how to register are also significant barriers. That's 
without worrying about the financial issues, getting visas[2] and so on.

>Expect the survey to launch in the coming days. 
>We will be asking IGC members to help disseminate it through their
>networks of contacts.  The preliminary results will be discussed at our
>IGC-sponsored Mapping Internet Governance workshop at the IGF, and a
>follow-up paper will be published by Consumers International later in
>the year.

[1] Picking the right two hours from a month, in the recent ECOSOC 
meeting is an extreme example, but it's helpful to understand for 
example that attending only the right day of a CSTD meeting isn't good 
enough and you probably need to plan on staying all week for those 
ad-hoc groups which aren't even on the printed agenda.

[2] Despite being able to travel relatively freely as a Brit, I've still 
managed to fail to attend a IG meeting because the organisers failed to 
produce an invitation letter to support my visa application. So I do 
understand the issues.
-- 
Roland Perry
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