[governance] the forthcoming MAG meeting and open consultations

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Dear Parminder

i do share your serious concerns as well as your standpoints, particularly on this recurrent issue of financing the effective participation of CS representatives from DCs, which is one of the most regretable failures of the WSIS. IMHO this causes an unbearable distortion in CS representation and makes "MSHism" totally meaningless. 

That's why the WSIS follow-up isn't but a repetitive series of self-celebrating and self-promoting sessions rather than a real open discussion and debate on actual issues and a common search of suitable solutions ! In fact this process is far from being a Forum : take just a look on this year's, programme with its "high level (?) sessions" !

However, I'll regret your absence during this week in Geneva, both at a personal and a collective standpoint. I do hope that some DCs are present at least through their diaspora. but this necessitates a collaborative work being done ahead of the Forum. Not obvious ...

Let me just add that the dissolution of IGF in this WSIS process without consistency, spirit and goal, means a "1st class burial" for the IGF, as well as for the Financing Mechanisms for WSIS goals in DCs, the second hot potatoe of the WSIS, that I'm asking for since the first prepcoms of the Tunis phase. With the success you can check in reading the 2011 Forum programme ...

With my friendliest greetings ... and regrets

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT - France 



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> Objet : [governance] the forthcoming MAG meeting and open consultations
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> Hi All
> 
> I wonder who all will attend the forthcoming open consultations and the MAG meeting (which, as on the last few occasions, is expected to be partly open). I myself am unable to attend because of the absence of funding support. 
> 
> I see a few important new elements vis a vis the forthcoming meeting, which I bring to your collective attention
> 
> 1) Unlike all earlier times, the MAG has not been re-constituted before the May meeting. I am not sure why, and what does this mean.
> 
> 2) There is no funding support for civil society MAG members from developing countries, unlike earlier times, and I expect most to them to be unable to attend. This puts a huge question-mark on the legitimacy of the preparatory process, especially from civil society point of view. I think we should raise this issue. I expect the room to be filled by non-government actors from developed countries, and obviously the conversation will be determined and lead by them (which, because of a variety of factors, do often happen in any case; it will simply be, shall I say, much worse this time).  I have on numerous occasions asked the IGF secretariat for  data about additional participants that turn up in open MAG meeting. I have even sent reminders but never got  a response. So much for transparency. 
> 
> 3) Interestingly, for the first time, registration for open consultations and attending MAG meetings is a part of the registration for the WSIS forum. While I am all for convergences and doing a dialogue in common spaces with shared participants etc, I wonder if this new arrangement is entirely innocent, and if some may want to read something in this new development. I must mention here that one country at the WG on IGF improvements meeting strongly advocated for some kind of merger of the IGF process with the WSIS forum process. 
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> Parminder 
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