[governance] On Enhanced Cooperation and the opportunity of a working group

[Avri Doria]

On 21 May 2012, at 10:43, Marilia Maciel wrote:

> Dear Betrand,
> 
> Thank you very much. I think these are very clear, objective points that may help to move forward. I think that the chair of the drafting exercise (when chosen) should have access to it. 
> 
> Dear Avri,
> That was certainly not the tone or the content of my intervention (sent to the list), and I think that it was not the content of the interventions of the other speakers from IGC. But since you were not specific, it is hard to make any other comments.

In terms of statements, I referred primarily to those of several governments.

In terms of CS, I am more referring to the position being taken on this list by several members against the multistakeholder model.
And since many people read this list as a barometer of where CS is heading on IG, they are more then ready to accept that we no longer value the model and are ready to kick us right back out the door.  As Izumi put it so well in the meeting - we were given very short shrift* in that meeting and many of our speakers never got a chance.  CS and other other stakeholders were in the back of the bus at the CSTD consultation



In any case I  am not referring to your statement, I actually thought your statement was very good, and with the exception of things like IBSA generally think that Brazil has a strong commitment to the multistakeholder model and is putting it in practice in a local sense more than in most places - which i see as an exemplar.  

On the other hand India and Indian based civil society organizations seem to be heading away from the use of the model in favor of strong government oversight.

And on the liberal right, Milton has periodically seemed to have disdain for the model.

I find an 'alliance' of Parminder and Milton, two intelligent people who represent strong points of view on opposite sides of the spectrum within the IGC, against the multistakeholder model of participatory democracy, to be a possible threat to CS's participation going forward.  I take Parminder's admonitions seriously that we have to better develop our notion of representativity (though i see us representing the interest of CS and not the entire CS population), and I take Milton's admonition seriously that the multistakeholder model is itself just a mechanism and not the end in itelf (though I disagree as i see this participatory democracy as one of the ends among many I am trying to argue for).  But to have these two formidable gentlemen appearing to argue against multistakeholder models is, i beleive, unfortunate.

avri

* careless treatment; scant attention




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