[governance] Chinese Official Gains Oversight Of UN Internet Governance Forum

[Riaz K Tayob]

    Chinese Official Gains Oversight Of UN Internet Governance Forum
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Published on 10 September 2012 @ 7:09 pm

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Intellectual Property Watch

By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/

The United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) 
has a new boss. Chinese career diplomat Wu Hongbo was nominated earlier 
this year by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UNDESA only recently 
announced <http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/usg/index.shtml> on its 
website. Taking office as UN Undersecretary-General for Economic and 
Social Affairs on 1 August, Wu became responsible for the UN Internet 
Governance Forum (IGF) as UNDESA oversees the work of the UN Committee 
on Science and Technology and thereby the follow-up activities to the 
2003-2005 UN World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS). In the 
role, Wu follows Sha Zukang, also from China.

According to experts, UNDESA has taken on the proxy for the UN Secretary 
General who officially convenes the IGF and acted as de-facto 
supervising agency of the IGF. Many stakeholders of the IGF -- which has 
been said to be not an official UN body and therefore had to seek 
financing elsewhere -- have urged the UN administration for quite some 
time now to fill the vacant positions of the IGF Executive Secretary and 
also of the "Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General for Internet 
Governance". Whether Wu will address this before the upcoming IGF 
meeting in Azerbaijan remains to be seen. Wu formerly held diplomatic 
positions in Germany, Manila, Hong Kong and at the Sino-British Joint 
Liaison Group that worked to integrate Hong Kong's administration into 
China.


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