[WSIS CS-Plenary] MAG dictates rules and agenda for IGF?

[Carlos Afonso]

Dear people,

I did not imagine the MAG would dictate IGF norms and agenda, and this 
was not in the rules established by the WSIS process.

The MAG, an ad hoc creation of the UN Secretary General which is not 
part of the WSIS decisions, was supposed to help the secretariat 
regarding IGF procedures, selection process to ensure pluralism and 
transparency, methodology -- not predetermine content or agenda! This 
should be the task of the first IGF meeting itself -- and the IGF should 
  have final say on procedures as well.

This went way off track, in my opinion -- no surprise, with the 
ICANN+business like-minded group dominating the MAG.

Is CS agreeing to this?? Brazil will, I hope, react very strongly 
against this, and I also hope many other countries will do the same.

frt rgds

--c.a.

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Carlos A. Afonso
diretor de planejamento
Rits -- http://www.rits.org.br

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