[governance] Meeting report ECOSOC presentations

[Marilia Maciel]

Please, see some comments below

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

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> at 13:31:43 on Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>
> writes
>
>
>> Just to complement and make my previous message more clear, what Brazil
>> has successfully advanced (after difficult diplomatic negotiations with US
>> and Iran) was a request for CSTD Secretariat to make a list of CS
>> organizations that wish to participate in CSTD, but do not have
>> accreditation with WSIS (text of the resolution quoted below). In the
>> meantime, the current unequal arrangement was extended until 2015.
>>
>
> What is the significance of 2015? On previous occasions, my understanding
> was that the various deadlines were in place in order for organisations to
> apply for ECOSOC Consultative Status (as discussed in the context of
> attending the recent ECOSOC meeting).


I do not believe that this is the main reason why the deadlines are there.
The same deadlines apply to the business and technical and academic
communities, even though they are not required to apply for ECOSOC
(actually, I do not think they even can, formally speaking). These
arrangements have been almost automatically renewed since 2008, without
further discussion. The doors of CSTD remain open for business and tech
organizations created after WSIS, but CS has been "frozen" to the list of
WSIS accreditation.


>
>  In order to make sure that the list will indeed be made and in order to
>> ensure that the process of making the list will be transparent, CS needs to
>> act. What should CS do
>>
>
> Perhaps the first thing to decide is whether each CS entity wishes to
> participate in the "normal" way, by gaining ECOSOC Consultative Status
> (which several have already done), or do they wish the 'exceptional'
> arrangements to continue.
>

Personally, I do not think ECOSOC accreditation should be required from all
who wish to participate in IG discussions in CSTD because of the unique
nature of this regime. Getting ECOSOC accreditation is a very cumbersome and
difficult procedure, especially for some organizations. Additionally, we are
living a bizarre situation: if we apply and receive ECOSOC status, only then
we will be treated as equal to business and technical organizations that
have only expressed their wish to participate in CSTD. That makes no sense!



>
> They should also be clear within themselves whether the reason for being
> interested in CSTD is because, for the time being, it is where certain
> aspects of the future of the IGF are discussed. Or do these CS entities wish
> to become involved in the other activities of the CSTD, either today or in
> the future when IGF renewal is no longer on their agenda (for whatever
> reason it was removed).


CSTD will probably receive the task of discussing Enhanced cooperation as
well; IG issues will stay in the agenda for some time.
I think that we (CS) should know more about what CSTD does. A lot of things
we discuss here are deeply related to the work of the Commission. But I
personally never knew about CSTD until I was dragged there by IGF
discussions. So awareness must be raised before we decide if we want to
follow it or not.

And even if just a few of us do wish to participate, it is wrong that this
kind of ad hoc unequal arrangement exists, so we should fight to change it
weather or not we (our organizations) are personally interested on CSTD.

Marília

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