[governance] IGF - and the corporatisation scandal

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Indeed very funny this wasn't noticed at all in the process. While I'm OK
with this happening with a clear understanding and advance knowledge, maybe
reasonable consensus from the IGF as a while - if this was not addressed
appropriately and hidden away that would be a clear conflict of interest.

-C


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:12 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:

>
> Following up on the current IGF cancellation imbroglio, I happened to see
> what is called as the 'fund raising proposal'<https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BylRrf_lFlA9OXhieGt5WUJsMkU/edit>of the managing committee of Bali IGF..... Sorry to say, but it is a pure
> scandal....
>
> Against donations, it promises funders to be able to recommend speakers in
> the closing ceremony, organising of events, invitation to high level
> meeting, banners all around inside the venue (hundreds of them), special
> promotional feature in the IGF book, logos on the website, on the daily IGF
> bulletin, on various equipment in the venue and many other things.....
> Government can make donations and in return "may lead a session in the IGF
> and be responsible for opening, summary, and the closing of events....."
>
> Scandalous!! This is selling off the UN, selling off of global public
> policy spaces... The fact is, I dont want to go to such an IGF. I want to
> have nothing to do with it.
>
> Who authorised all this? Can the MAG please respond. They certainly knew
> about the mentioned 'fund raising proposal' and about how the 2013 IGF was
> being organised. Why did they remain complicit, or is it that they actively
> promoted it?  (For a start the civil society members in the MAG who are on
> this list may please clarify.) Who authorised selling off the global IG
> policy dialogue space in this way... Does this correspond to the ground
> rules of a UN convened and run event which in my understanding the IGF
> continues to be.
>
>  It was certainly never intended in the WSIS mandate of the IGF... At the
> WG on IGF improvements too we were quite clear that IGF is a government
> hosted UN event. How was such a big shift be accomplished. And done without
> people getting a whiff or it, what to say, a public discussion.. I have
> seen many problematic changes inside the MAG-IGF structure over the last
> year or so, which are aimed at a kind of capture, but this one simply takes
> the cake.
>
> Does the civil society want to speak up on this issue.
>
> (As I said earlier, when, at the Baku IGF, the Indonesian government
> showed its unwillingness to host 21013 IGF, MAG, IGF secretariat, UNDESA or
> whoever, had no business to allocate it to a private group, even if under
> government’s weak tutelage. They should have offered it to other
> governments, one of which would  certainly have taken the offer. What has
> happened is a natural flow from what is euphemistically called as a
> multistakeholder convened/ funded IGF, largely free from UN and
> governmental linkages. And this is what so many - including on this list -
> have been promoting. It is basically a corporate controlled and run IGF  )
>
>
> parminder
>
>
>
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