[governance] Quick update on WGEC meeting day 1

[joy]

Thanks so much for this update Avri - a very deft summary.
I am really sorry I could not attend this meeting of the Working Group.
The originally agreed meeting dates for later in May, which I could
attend, were changed and the new dates clashed with a long-standing
personal commitment in New Zealand, so I have given my apologies.
I'm fully supportive of the strong civil society stance you're on record
as taking.
Joy

On 1/05/2014 10:19 a.m., Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well day one came and went.
>
> We reviewed some of the recommendation that had not yet been reviewed,
> and once again got hung up on the fundamental differences:
>
> - Enhanced cooperation is only about governments
> - Enhanced cooperation is about all stakeholders.
>
> - Para 32 says all there is to say about Respective Roles and
> Responsibilities
> - Para 32 needs to be revisited to match reality.
>
> - WGEC needs to deliver a consensus report
> - WGEC can come out with a report that reports the varying models
>
> - We trust the chair and he can write a chapeau discussing the
> differences of viewpoint.
> - we like the chair, but he is just human, we need to write up our own
> viewpoints.
>
> - we should go back to our hotels and write up a brief (several line)
> opinion of Enhanced Cooperation and Multistakeholderism
> - we don't need to do this but should continue working on trying to find
> the item(s) we can reach consensus on.
>
> (I expect most groups have been doing the homework just in case there is
> a quiz)
>
>
> The Sessions are broadcast live.  I do not know if there are archived
> recording, but there probably are - I will check.  The CSTD secretariat
> has come a long way in the short year this WG has been working.  From a
> first meeting where streaming was not possible, to a meeting 11 months
> later, with streaming and remote participation for absent WG members -
> not that any did participate as far as I know.
>
> Process wise, Observers are allowed to comment but only in a 15 minute
> slot just before breaks.
>
> While we had brief reports on NETmundial, the IGF, ITU activities etc,
> these were not discussed as there were those who argued that these were
> not immediately relevant to the work of the WGEC which has its own
> mandate. The chair concurred.
>
> Tomorrow is another day.
>
> avri
>
> (a cs nominated member of the wgec)
>

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