[Mmwg] Re: [governance] Comments - afternoon, Friday

[Milton Mueller]

>>> Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> 2/20/2006 10:06 AM >>>
>Actually, plenty of governments made quite clear that they don't see it
>feasible to have less than 15 gov reps as a very minimum, due to their
>internal balance problems. 

But they are thinking about it the wrong way. First, they are thinking that this is a power game; second, they are thinking that they have to look for allies or ptotection only from other governments, not from PS and CS. Both assumptions are wrong and must be discouraged. We need to stick to our guns on this. We may lose, but we (and the future of the forum) will be very sorry if we do. 


If we insist on making it small, I am sure
that the ones to disappear from the Committee would be the
non-governmental people, not the governmental ones... or that they would
go for the solution that most developing countries are pushing, i.e.
three separate bureaus, as it was in WSIS, "so that each of them is more
manageable". Needless to say that the CSB and PSB would then become
completely meaningless.

> The idea is that the PC should be a minimal size required to
> represent, but should also have very limited powers. E.g., PC does not
> "pick" themes and force us to discuss them, it simply approves and
> prioritizes themes proposed by Working Groups.

Agree.
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