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Why is the IGF Secretariat so afraid of its community?

By terminus - 19/8/2011 The IGF Community Site links together all the official and community online resources, and provides those that are missing from those hosted by the Secretariat: such as blog, wiki, chat, mailing lists, feeds and subscribable calendar.

The Indian proposal for improvements to IGF outcomes

By terminus - 2/4/2011 I haven't been able to find this elsewhere on the Web, so here is a transcribed version of the document that India recently circulated to the CSTD's Working Group on Improvements to the IGF. Although none of the recommendations are new, they are measured, sensible and progressive - and the Working Group's failure means that this blog post may be the last we hear of them.

On the outcome of the CSTD's working group on improvements to the IGF

By wolfgang - 28/3/2011 I am not surprised about the outcome. It was crystal clear after the Montreux meeting, that it will be impossible to reach a reasonable result within the given time frame. The whole planning and executing of the launch and the work of this UNCSTD WG raises a lot of question.

Leaked working document of CSTD working group on IGF improvements

By terminus - 25/2/2011 Here is a document that compiles the inputs given to the CSTD working group on improvements to the IGF, that meets for the first time today in Geneva. It follow this format:

Two birds with one stone: a revitalised IGF and Enhanced Cooperation

By terminus - 26/1/2011 I just posted to the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list my thoughts for the CSTD's working group on the improvements to the IGF, which are rather more radical than will fit within the very pedestrian draft framework of the working group's report.

Civil society betrayed by the CSTD

By terminus - 9/12/2010 - 1 Replies In its meeting on 6 December, the CSTD (United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development) decided to establish the Working Group for IGF improvement as a government-only working group, in flagrant disregard of ECOSOC resolution 2010/2, and contrary to earlier promises at the Vilnius IGF meeting for an open, multi-stakeholder group on the model of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).

MAG meeting on the 24th - the issue of self improvements

By parminder - 1/12/2010 About the MAG meeting on the 24th, I find two interesting elements to report.

IGF renewed subject to improvements, as Kummer offers a parting improvement of his own

By terminus - 29/11/2010 Posts to this site have become fewer since I assumed the role of coordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus and have been facilitating the development of statements on its behalf, rather than submitting my own. But with last week seeing a CSTD consultation on IGF improvements, another IGF open consultation and MAG meeting, the resignation of Markus Kummer, and the finalisation of a General Assembly resolution extending the mandate of the IGF, it's certainly time for an update.

My take away from Vilnius - if the IGF won't change itself, others will

By terminus - 18/9/2010 It's in my job description, as Official Bugbear to the IGF, to be grouchy. And I must express my appreciation to the MAG and Secretariat for making my job very easy. But I also try to be at least a little forward-looking and optimistic in my wrap-up blog post on each IGF meeting, even if that optimism is sometimes found buried in several layers of subtext.

My statement for civil society at IGF 2010's closing session

By terminus - 17/9/2010 Chairman, your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I'm going to begin my speech a little differently, by looking back into history - not very far, just to 2005 - when the Internet Governance Forum was first proposed, by an organisation called the Working Group on Internet Governance (or WGIG). WGIG was in many ways the predecessor of the IGF; it too was a multi-stakeholder body, and had several open consultation meetings that anyone could attend.

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