Civil Society Representation in Intergovernmental Organisations: The way inside OECD

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner room
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Monday, February 14, 2011 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm

 

by Anna FIELDER 

Moderator:  Kristina Irion, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and Research Director for Public Policy, Center for Media and Communications Studies, CEU

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been a club for the powerful governments to negotiate high-level policies since the 1940s. But the quest for inclusiveness for Civil Society in such fora has long been denied until a few intergovernmental organisations opened up their constituency to Civil Society representatives. Anna Fielder has been relentlessly working to achieve Civil Society representation in the OECD where she achieved consumer representation on its Committee on Consumer Policy in the 1990s and has been a key player in the set up of CSISAC - the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council - to contribute constructively to the policy work of the OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP). . In her talk, Anna Fielder will outline the major challenges and obstacles that had to be overcome within the OECD and civil society organisations alike. She will make a case as to why governments alone are not sufficient to represent civil society and why CSISAC will provide the OECD with the essential perspective of stakeholders "at the receiving end" of policy.
 

Anna Fielder is an international consumer rights expert working as senior policy advisor to the National Consumer Council (UK), now Consumer Focus, focusing on the digital environment and sustainability issues. She is Trustee and Company Secretary of Privacy International and also on the team of experts and lead author of several studies for Civic Consulting (Germany).