AW: [governance] Civil Society Members in Geneva

Sun May 22 05:48:54 EDT 2011

Hello Wolfgang and all,

Anriette has been working on a statetement from CS supporting the
continuation of the CSTD WG. IGF improvements and WSIS review will be
discussed on Tuesday, so we should have news after that. CS is having an
informal dinner with representatives from the technical community and the
business sector on Monday night to chat about CSTD. I am really happy that
we will have the opportunity to do it.

So far, as long as we know, the only one to support extintion of the WG is
the United States. They sent a letter to CSTD saying that. You can access it
here:http://www.unctad.info/en/CstdWG/ (on the right side)

The members of CSTD bureau will meet tomorrow morning, before the
conference, to talk about proposals of resolutions. Europe will be proposing
one resolution about IGF improvement, but we dont know its exact content. I
heard their goal is not to let discussions in WG go completely to waste.
Europe has been supportive, and they (Hungary) backed me up when I
complained about lack of executive coordinator and chair for the IGF
process, during WSIS tacking stocks session.

I will be in the meeting, but not exactly as CS representative, because my
organization does not have ECOSOC status. I will be there invited by the
Brazilian delegation, so I am not sure about my possibility to intervene.
But Anriette will be there as APC, Katitza will be observing as EFF and we
heard Parminder will be here as well, but not sure.

Best,
Marília

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org> wrote:

> Hi Wolfgang:
>
> I am not familiar with the UNCSTD meeting. Anriette and Marilia are our
> representative there.
>
> Katitza
>
>
> On 5/22/11 9:15 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
>
>> Thanks Katitza,
>>
>> any information about outcomes from the MAG meeting?  And who nis going to
>> monitor (or make a statement) in the forthcoming UNCSTD meeting?
>>
>> wolfgang
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Von: governance at lists.cpsr.org im Auftrag von Katitza Rodriguez
>> Gesendet: Sa 21.05.2011 19:01
>> An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Katitza Rodriguez
>> Betreff: [governance] Civil Society Members in Geneva
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I want to let you know that civil society members in Geneva worked
>> extremely hard during the open consultation and the open MAG meeting.
>> Those identify with civil society were: APC Anriette Esterhuysen and Joy
>> Liddicoat, Marilia Maciel, Adam Peake, and Bill Drake. Please apologize
>> me if I forgot of anyone else.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Katitza
>>
>>
>> On 5/21/11 6:19 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>> Dear IGC members (plus other stakeholders in this list):
>>>
>>> I want to inform civil society IGC members that only four civil
>>> society MAG members were able to attend the last Open Consultation and
>>> MAG meeting. The civil society MAG members were: Valeria Betancourt,
>>> Fouad Bawja, Graciela Selaimen, and myself.
>>>
>>> It is important to understand that four civil society MAG members are
>>> not enough to allow civil society to effectively monitor and shape
>>> "all" the main sessions for the next IGF. During the OC, we have
>>> requested the IGF Secretariat to provide us with a better
>>> understanding of the current list of civil society MAG members, and
>>> the need to fill out those civil society slots in the MAG so we can
>>> keep the balance between all stakeholders.
>>>
>>> In this MAG meeting, we were able to cover between 3-4 sessions. In
>>> the next days to come, we will be monitoring the other sessions (which
>>> will not be able to monitor in-situ) to make sure civil society voice
>>> is included. As a MAG member, my main concern is the SOP session. If
>>> you want to send me a "private message" about the issues that you
>>> consider should be discussed, please do so by sending an email to
>>> katitza at eff.org Our main input for discussion is the February Open
>>> Consultation where many of you (and other stakeholders) provided
>>> valuable comments, and we will work hard to ensure that those
>>> suggestions are included.
>>>
>>> I also would like to call attention to the fact that this list is open
>>> to other stakeholders including public authorities, government
>>> officials, technical community, and business sector representatives.
>>> Therefore, members need to understand that MAG members have a very
>>> difficult task to share strategies in a public list. Any public
>>> strategy that we can share here, can always harm our collective
>>> efforts in spaces where disclosing your strategy in advance is a big
>>> problem and can harm our work.
>>>
>>> I would like to ask the coordinators to create a list for IGC-only
>>> members that is close to their members. In that way, civil society MAG
>>> members will be able to provide a better report after the meeting.
>>>
>>> All the best, Katitza
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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