Informal Meeting of Civil Society with G77 and China task force on WSIS

Short report by Bill Drake : We had a productive meeting today with some of the G77 & China governments and agreed to actively explore maintaining an ongoing dialogue, most notably with respect to the development dimensions of Internet governance. We will probably try to organize follow-up F2F meetings, perhaps in the summer and fall, and could create a joint electronic space to advance more inclusive discussion. There was also some interest in the possibility of collaborating on the monitoring and analysis of governance trends from a development perspective, although the modalities would have to be worked out. Finally, they were keen to see more analytical work on IG and development from academics and other CS researchers, which could aid their own efforts.

• Contributions
• Online discussion space
• Thoughts for Rio : A bureau for the IGF
• Pensées pour Rio : Un bureau pour l'IGF
• A Legal Analysis of the IGF process - - -
• A follow-up note ( 31 may 2007 ) - - -

These sites or events can be considered as "one-way" endorsed because these partnerships are not indicated on the official IGF web site. The decision process to engage in such partnerships is not transparent. IGF participation should have also implied a much broader and inclusive convening.

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