[governance] the forthcoming MAG meeting and open consultations

[William Drake]

Hi

On May 3, 2011, at 7:14 AM, parminder wrote:

> 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).

As the ITU is handling registration for both the WSIS Forum and the IGF, the names are folded into one file with no broken out list of consultation/MAG attendees on the IGF site per previous practice.  At present there are about 800 people registered, the overwhelming majority of them being from developing countries, especially from Africa, e.g. 40 from Ghana, 40 from Congo, 50 from Nigeria, etc.  The most heavily represented industrialized country by far is Switzerland with about 130, whereas there are four from Germany (of course, these numbers may change, and not everyone who registers ultimately comes). I would assume most of these folks are coming for the WSIS Forum rather than the IGF.  There are generally very few  IGF "usual suspects"  registered of any species.  As far as I can tell, IGC members include Anriette, Valeria, Adam, and myself (apologies to anyone whose name I missed, please inform).  Hopefully there will be a late rush of registrations, but at present it would seem that the consultation and MAG will have very light attendance, and if a lot of people from the government missions decide to come over that could affect things.  Needless to say, robust remote participation will be needed, assuming there is adequate logistical support.  We will be in the ILO which is a pretty unwired environment; if I recall correctly, at the WGIG meetings there six years ago there was no wifi and few electrical sockets for computers.  But ITU says they are bringing some equipment over so those of us who've organized workshops will at least be able to project Power Points etc.

Bottom line, the RP needs to be nailed down.

Cheers,

Bill






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William J. Drake
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University of Zurich, Switzerland
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