[governance] Geneva

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 08/05/2013, at 9:59 PM, William Drake <william.drake at UZH.CH> wrote:

> In years past it was the practice before the May meetings to ask who is going to be in Geneva when, try to organize a caucus or CS meeting, maybe do a joint statement about something, and so on.  Is anything along these lines contemplated for this year?  We have stuff going on over a four week period:

I'm only going to be able to make it for the first week (Geneva is so expensive!), but would be glad to get together with some other caucus folk while I'm there.  Regarding a joint statement, the Best Bits group is putting one together for the WTPF, and I would support the caucus issuing one for the IGF open consultations and MAG meeting as has already been discussed, focusing on the implementation of the recommendations on IGF improvements.

> *I was just looking at the documentation for the ITU's WTPF 14 to 16 May and note that there's only one civil society submission (from D. Brown, A. Doria, N. Nwakanma, M. Shears) and the ISOC submission.  Probably the caucus would be unable to reach consensus on something related to Draft Opinion 6: on supporting operationalizing the enhanced cooperation process.  But one would have thought that some comment on Draft Opinion 5: Supporting Multi-stakeholderism in Internet Governance might have been possible….

You're aware though, I presume, that the reason why there is only one civil society submission is because the ITU is not receiving civil society submissions?  The only reason why the Brown/Doria/Nwakanma/Shears statement is up there is because they are members of the Informal Experts Group (IEG).  I've written a statement for Consumers International (which is at http://a2knetwork.org/sites/default/files/wtpf_position_statement.pdf), but the ITU has refused to receive it.

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