[governance] WSIS+10 and climate change sensitive regions

[Norbert Bollow]

Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would also look for someone from Bangladesh

I'm looking, but without success so far. :-)

Does anyone in the Caucus have a contact to someone from Bangladesh
who is currently here in Paris for the WSIS+10 review conference?

Greetings,
Norbert

>> See below for an explanation of the reasons for this interest.
>>
>> On 2/26/13, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>> > Personally I found the remarks of Rajendra Pachauri (the chair
>> > of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) very inspiring
>> > and energizing: He spoke on applying knowledge to address
>> > important global problems, among which he emphasized not only
>> > climate change but also poverty. Nothing about what he pointed
>> > out is really new or surprising to anyone who is minimally well
>> > informed, but I still found his intervention highly significant.
>> > Perhaps the reason which makes me assign significance to his
>> > words is not so much the content of what he said, but the fact
>> > that (at least from my perspective) he did not come across as
>> > someone speaking with the voice of a politician, but as someone
>> > with a mindset grounded in engineering. Also significant is the
>> > prominence that the WSIS+10 organizers assigned to his brief
>> > speech by putting it first in the "high level panel" before all
>> > the ministers.
>> >
>> > In summary, perhaps the main point of the day is that the
>> > concept of knowledge societies really needs to be about the
>> > sharing and application of knowledge in practical ways.
>>
>> Another major reason why I found this inspiring is of course that
>> this resonates with plans that I've been pondering for quite some
>> time, to try launching a refocused version of the "Enhanced
>> Cooperation Task Force" (ECTF) that was discussed here a while
>> back [1]. I'm keeping the ECTF proposal alive with minor changes
>> more or less as-is in the hope that it may in some way be a useful
>> input to the CSTD Working-Group on Enhanced Cooperation. But now
>> that the UN system has started a probably slow process on deciding
>> an official meaning for the term “Enhanced Cooperation”, I really
>> don't want to delay application of the key ideas of that proposal
>> until it is clear whether the UN will eventually take action in
>> that direction or not.
>>
>> I'm calling the branch of the proposal that I want to go forward
>> with without delay "Wisdom Task Force" (WisdomTF) [2], and I want
>> to focus it initially at least on addressing the problem of
>> developing effective policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions
>> globally, and getting governments to implement such effective
>> policies, together with whatever information society and development
>> issues that will turn out to be effectively inseparably linked with
>> this objective. In other words, the plan is to apply information
>> society techniques, inspired significantly by the Internet
>> Engineering Task Force (IETF), to a policy area which is not
>> primarily technical. Of course, if this plan works out, it will
>> end up impacting also other areas of governance, including Internet
>> governance in the narrower sense of "governance of what makes the
>> Internet work".
>>
>> [1] http://enhanced-cooperation.org/RFA/1
>> [2] http://wisdomtaskforce.org/RFB/1
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Norbert
>>
>>
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