[governance] critique of the IBSA proposal

[Miguel Alcaine]

Dear colleagues,

I want to clarify that the reports on Enhanced Cooperation (2009 and 2010)
were produced by DESA and not by the CSTD. They are different structures of
the UN, but their work goes mainly or completely to ECOSOC respectively.

I recall the time when EC was said not to be appropriate to be discussed in
IGF and I also remember a more recent time when some people said there is
nothing else to do as EC is already happening. To be fair, the time when it
was not appropriate to discuss EC in the IGF, the EC process was not lauched
yet.

I agree that some EC might have already happening.

I would like to make a distinction between EC and EC in the context of the
WSIS outcomes. If one read the famous paragraphs on EC, it is found that EC
in the Tunis Agenda refers only to Governments.

While I would had liked to have EC spelled to all actors in the WSIS outcome
documents; it is not. From here, it is natural that Governments backing the
idea of EC look for governmental paths, even knowing that any of you can
show me other relevant paragraphs that talk about multi-stakeholderism in
the IG chapter.

Nevertheless, It is up to all people involved to clarify and increase the
scope of EC and its construction to cover all actors.

The possible link and complementarity between EC and IGF was recognized by
the GA resolution last year (65/141. Information and communications
technologies for
development<http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N10/521/00/PDF/N1052100.pdf?OpenElement>
):

*16. Further recognizes that the Internet governance-related outcomes of the
World Summit on the Information Society, namely the process towards enhanced
cooperation and the convening of the Internet Governance Forum, are to be
pursued
by the Secretary-General through two distinct processes, and recognizes that
the two
processes may be complementary;
*

But it needs to be developed. It is a black box or an empty box that needs
to be filled. It is an opportunity that people may take advantage either to
define that complementarity or relationship or to declare by "not doing"
that they are not related and possibly giving credibility to the idea that
there is no need to do anything else regarding EC.

Best,

Miguel

*Disclaimer*
My ideas are those of my own and does not represent any position of my
employer or any other institution.



On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> The UN (CSTD's) 2009 report on Enhanced CoOperation is here:
>
> http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/**e2009d92_en.pdf<http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/e2009d92_en.pdf>
>
> Including contributions from some invited respondents.
>
> There's also this room document from 2010, which has an updated set of
> responses from all ten:
>
> http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/**e2009d92crp1_en.pdf<http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/e2009d92crp1_en.pdf>
>
> This should be essential reading for anyone interested in Enhanced
> CoOperation.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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