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    Additional ICC/BASIS Comments on Enhanced Cooperation

    Prepared by the ICC commission on : Digital Economy
    Publication date : 22/12/2010

    The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and its initiative Business Action in Support of the Information Society (BASIS) welcome the opportunity to continue contributing to a development-oriented, people-centric and increasingly inclusive Information Society by supplementing our input to the ECOSOC open consultation on “enhanced cooperation” with these additional comments.

    • The WSIS Tunis Agenda provides that enhanced cooperation should be a multistakeholder process, not a governments-only process.
    • The WSIS Tunis Agenda directs that the enhanced cooperation process should include participation by relevant international organizations, including inter-governmental, multistakeholder and private-sector led organizations. Accordingly, the established practice of the UN Secretary General and UN DESA in promoting enhanced cooperation and conducting surveys has been to include multistakeholder and private-sector led organizations, thereby setting an important precedent.
    • The Tunis Agenda establishes enhanced cooperation and the IGF as complementary processes, which means enhanced cooperation should not compete with the IGF or existing organizations and processes.
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