[governance] IGF Accountability

[Arsene TUNGALI (Yahoo)]

 blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; }  I agree and fully support your last paragraph. We need more workshops in that direction for the upcoming IGF. These issues need to be brought in public so everyone is aware of them!
Thanks W!


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On Tuesday, May 31, 2016, 11:11 PM, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

Thx. Milton,

Here is an additional comment:

Russia for many years (since 2009) wanted to combine the WSIS Forum with the Internet Governance Forum. The argument was a "waste of ressources" and "overlapping of issues". This was rejected again and again (also by the UNCSTD IGF Improvement WFG). Ths WSIS Forum is now under control of ITU with UNGIS in the background. UNGIS has now 30 intergovernmental organisations as members. WSIS Forum 2016 looked very similar to the IGF, but with much more (high level) governmental representation. One scenario of some UN burocrats, who have a special understanding of the multistakeholder approach (governments have the lead and the  decision making capacity but "consult" with non-governmental stakeholders, as it was demonstrated with the high level meeting in December 2015) could be to put both the WSIS Forum and the IGF under the umbrella of the preparations for WSIS +20 (2025) with WSIS Forum under control of the ITU and IGF under control of the UNDESA (with UNGIS as a facilitator in the Background) as two complementary Events: The spierng Forum in Geneva and the fall Forum in the world. This would lead to a marginalization of the MAG and a castration of the multistakehooder approach.  

Let´s see what the July meetings will produce. In any case we have to start to put the issue of "IGF/MAG/UNDESA Accountability" and "IGF Independence" on the agenda for Guadalajara.

Wolfgang
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