[governance] IGF Planning Retreat

[Matthew Shears]

+ 1 Well said Bill.

Matthew


On 5/25/2016 10:23 AM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi Arsene
>
>> On May 24, 2016, at 15:42, Arsene TUNGALI (Yahoo) 
>> <arsenebaguma at yahoo.fr <mailto:arsenebaguma at yahoo.fr>> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, but I thought the CSCG (as per Ian's email) is receiving CS 
>> nominations and will report it to the IGF Secretariat? Please help me 
>> undertand.
>
> Sorry, my mailer dumped Ian’s message into the archive rather than my 
> IGC folder so I’d not seen it when I replied.
>
> That said, I really wish the CSCG had not decided to do this.  I would 
> rather see CS, and indeed all stakeholders, tell DESA that we will not 
> participate in a closed meeting, period. Which is what it turns out 
> this will likely be:
>
> /"Due to on-site logistics, online/remote participation may not be 
> available for the retreat; however, outcome documents of the retreat 
> will be shared for further comment/consultation." 
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-retreat-faqs/
>
> I think for DESA to unilaterally organize such a meeting on a closed 
> basis is a total violation of the principles of openness and inclusion 
> that the “IGF community,” such as it is, has worked for ten years to 
> bake into this process.  And bear in mind, this  is not an isolated 
> incident.  An uncomfortable amount of the real decision making about 
> the IGF takes place off stage and hence off the radars of 
> stakeholders.  It seems that as long as people get to go once a year 
> and do a workshop everyone’s fine with this, but I remember a time 
> when we actually cared about how the IGF is run, having been the most 
> vocal proponents of its creation.
>
> There is no reason on earth that an elite group of people selected 
> by DESA needs to meet in the lovely leafy beach town of Glen Cove, 
> Long Island in a place with no online facilities.  In mid-July a 
> conference room at the main UN can surely be found.  If this somehow 
> is not possible, a nearby hotel could probably provide a wired room 
> for less than the price of Glen Cove.  Ok, this wouldn't be a swank, 
> so people who managed to get their plane tickets paid for wouldn't 
> feel as much like an inner circle entrusted to chart the direction of 
> the IGF’s evolution, but boo hoo.
>
> This is not a meeting to negotiate a nuclear arms treaty.  It’s a 
> meeting to talk about the IGF.  If it is not transparent and open to 
> participation then to me it has zero legitimacy, and civil society 
> should not be undermining what is has worked for by participating.  So 
> I am in complete agreement with Parminder:
>
>> On May 25, 2016, at 06:06, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net 
>> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>>
>> However the routine has been for the CS leadership to make some 
>> protest noises but then simply submit to whatever is offered. Lets 
>> for once stand out ground. Write a strong letter, and if we do not 
>> get a satisfactory response, refuse to go along. UNDESA/ IGF cannot 
>> keep contravening what are now the established rules of conduct for 
>> the IGF.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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