[governance] WG on enhanced cooperation

[David Allen]

Indeed.  And useful to have GA text.

The InterSessional made clear the active planning for it - detail  
thinking underway

David

On Jan 14, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> David Allen <David_Allen_AB63 at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> The InterSessional of the CSTD, held in Lima last week, made clear
>> that there will be new WG on enhanced cooperation.
>
> Actually that was decided by the UN General Assembly last year,
> as part of the resolution titled “Information and communications
> technologies for development” (A/RES/67/195).
>
> The key paragraphs of that resolution read:
>
>    Reiterating the significance and urgency of the process towards
>    enhanced cooperation in full consistency with the mandate provided
>    in the Tunis Agenda and the need for enhanced cooperation to enable
>    Governments, on an equal footing, to carry out their roles and
>    responsibilities in respect of international public policy issues
>    pertaining to the Internet, but not in respect of the day-to-day
>    technical and operational matters that have no impact on those
>    issues,
>
>    Reaffirming that the outcomes of the World Summit on the
>    Information Society related to Internet governance, 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 recognizing
>    that the two processes may be complementary,
>
>    23. Decides to create a working group on enhanced cooperation,
>    within the framework of the Commission on Science and Technology
>    for Development, to examine the mandate of the World Summit on the
>    Information Society regarding enhanced cooperation, as contained in
>    paragraphs 68 to 71 of the Tunis Agenda, and recommends necessary
>    steps to operationalize it; the Working Group should submit its
>    report to the Commission, at its seventeenth session, in 2014, as
>    part of the preparations for the high-level review conference;
>
>    24. Also decides, in that regard, that the membership of the
>    working group shall comprise four members each from the five
>    regional groups of the membership of the Commission on Science and
>    Technology for Development and four participants each, to be
>    decided by the Commission, from the private sector, civil society,
>    the technical and academic community and intergovernmental
>    organizations;
>
> How quickly will they move forward with creating that commission,  
> which
> implies inter alia selecting the four civil society invitees?
>
> We need to have a valid nomcom in place for making recommendations for
> those four civil society spots.
>
> Given that the target date by which that WG is intended to be able to
> deliver its results seems to be something like May 2014, I would  
> expect
> them to want to move forward quickly.
>
> Anyone who has attended the Lima CSTD Intersessional might be able to
> tell us more about the specific plans. Since I don't know about anyone
> from Civil Society having been there, I'll ask the Swiss government.
>
> In any case I think that it would be best to initiate the nomcom
> selection process immediately, with a specific-task-nomcom so that  
> this
> doesn't have to wait until after the charter amendment ballot has
> been held and has ended.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>


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