[Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Hi,

I have signed the petition on the future of the IGF on behalf of ISOC 
Mexico. In signing I added the following text:

"The CSTD or its group for the IGF may argue that they intend to continue 
to make the IGF open to all stakeholders' participation. THAT IS NOT 
ENOUGH. All decisions related to Internet governance need be made in a 
multistakeholder environment.

Therefore the CSTD has to either not form this group, and use its 
participation in the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group to promote its 
view of improvements there, or to form this group with an equally open 
participation of all stakeholders.

We believe that this second alternative is undesirable because it will 
create one more organizational layer and one more unneeded step in the 
process.

The risk that the CSTD is incurring is that the other stakeholders will 
not participate fully and make the CSTD-reformed IGF irrelevant by routing 
around it as damage."

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Jon McNerney wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:22:50 +0100
> From: Jon McNerney <mcnerney at isoc.org>
> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] The Future of the Internet Governance Forum
> 
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> In an extraordinary meeting on 6 December the United Nation's Commission on 
> Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) decided to create a Working 
> Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 
> (http://www.intgovforum.org/) with a membership made up only of governments.
>
> We believe this decision sets back the model of multistakeholder cooperation 
> under which the IGF was established, and contradicts the instructions given 
> to the CSTD for the establishment of the Working Group
>
> The Internet Society has joined the International Chamber of Commerce - 
> Business Action to Support the Information Society, the Internet Governance 
> Caucus, and many other Internet, business, and civil society organizations in 
> sending a letter to the CSTD, asking them to retract their previous decision 
> and to establish an appropriately constituted Working Group that ensures the 
> full and active participation of governments, the private sector and civil 
> society from both developing and developed countries, involving relevant 
> intergovernmental and international organizations and forums.
>
> Like the Internet, a multistakeholder approach has been at the core of the 
> Internet Governance Forum's formation and success. We hope that Internet 
> Society Chapters and Members, as well as other organizations, will join us in 
> signing the letter.
>
> You may read the full letter, and see the growing list of signatories, and 
> indicated your own support here:
>
> http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2710
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jon McNerney
> Chief Operating Officer
> Internet Society
> www.isoc.org
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