On May 18th, 2010, IT for Change's Executive Director Parminder Jeet Singh presented a statement at the XIII Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Session in Geneva, on the process of Enhanced Cooperation in the area of Internet Governance. Parminder argued that the major actors and stakeholders should come up with concrete steps to initiate the process of Enhanced Cooperation, which was mandated to be commenced in the first quarter of 2006, immediately after the World Summit on the Information Society. He also highlighted that the two Internet Governance related outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society – Enhanced Cooperation and the Internet Governance Forum – are distinct complementary processes, respectively mandated with development of public policies with regard to the Internet, and a multi-stakeholder policy dialogue. The Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is a subsidiary body of ECOSOC - Economic and Social Council, with which IT for Change is in Special Consultative Status. Click here to read the statement.
