(c) Identify the status of mechanisms, if any, whether they are addressing
the issues,
(d) Attempt to identify the gaps in order to ascertain what type of
recommendations may be required to be drafted by the WGEC.´3
The fourth meeting of the WGEC was held on 30 April-2 May 2014. In this meeting, the
work of the CG was presented in the spreadsheet. The WGEC took note of the presentation of
the CG’s work and suggested that the spreadsheet should be considered as a living document.
The Chair of WGEC gave an account of the work carried out by his group at the seventeenth
session of the CSTD in May 2014. In his report, the Chair concluded that ´the complexity and
political sensitivity of the topic did not allow the group to finalize a set of recommendations
on fully operationalizing enhanced cooperation´.4 The CSTD recommended to the United
Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) that the work that had been initiated by the
working group – the collection of relevant information, the review of international public
policy issues, and the identification of gaps carried out in the CG – should be continued by
the secretariat of the Commission.
In consequence, in its resolution E/RES/2014/27, from 16 July 2014 ECOSOC noted:
´[…] the work initiated by the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation
to review the identified international public policy issues pertaining to the
Internet, list where there are existing international mechanisms addressing these
issues, identify the status of mechanisms, if any, whether they are addressing the
issue and attempt to identify gaps in order to ascertain what type of
recommendations may be required´.
And recommended that:
´this work may be further continued by the secretariat of the Commission
with a view to the submission of the findings to the Commission at its
intersessional meeting for further discussion and their integration into the 10year review of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World
Summit, to be prepared for the consideration by the Commission at its eighteenth
session.´
This report present the work that was carried out to continue the work initiated in WGEC, in
compliance with the ECOSOC resolution E/RES/2014/27.
3
Chairman’s summary of the second meeting of the WGEC. Available at
http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/WGEC_2013_Chairmans_summary_en.pdf
4
Chairman' s summary, E/CN.16/2014/CRP. Available at
http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/ecn162014crp3_en.pdf
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