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<font size="+1">Dear Jeremy<br>
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It is not simply a case of these comments being ignored. The
problem is that there is not structure that can effectively
evaluate them and implement them.<br>
<br>
Some suggestions have eventually found their way into some form of
implementation. The more 'practical' they are the more likely that
the Secretariat will do what they can to follow up. The more
political and strategic they are, the more complex and as the MAG
tends to work on consensus suggestions where different
stakeholders have different views (e.g. on the IGF making policy
recommendations) are likely to go nowhere.<br>
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Also I have learnt - and it has really taken me years - that in
the UN system, and in policy advocacy in general, asking for the
same things year after year actually often works in the long run.
Civil society has had in my view the clearest vision of what the
IGF needs since its onset (e.g. working groups, thematic IGFs,
outcomes, inter-institutional dialogue, support for participation,
new approach to main sessions, etc. etc.)<br>
<br>
Why don't we do a stocktake of all our recommendations since the
beginning and resubmit those that that we can agree on as
important? It will also be good in that we can see where we have
been successful, or partly successful. E.g. Best Bits asked for IG
principles in 2012. We now have them in the form of the NETmundial
statement - and it is a set of principles that draws extensively
on our own work in the IRP dynamic coalition. What next?<br>
<br>
Anriette<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/09/2014 18:33, Jeremy Malcolm
wrote:<br>
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On 25/09/2014 2:32 am, William Drake wrote:<br>
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4) Strengthening the IGF, consistent with the NETmundial
statement. Intersessional work to prepare a topic or two that
is ‘mature’ enough to yield some measure of convergence and
could be treated for one day in the NM manner could be a very
useful way to demonstrate the increasing utility of the IGF to
the UNGA and others. There are various ideas about how this
might be done, and it’d be great to see some of them in
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Agreed, but it's not as if these ideas have not already been put
forward ad infinitum over previous years. Consider this Best Bits
submission from 2013, which remains equally relevant today:<br>
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href="http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/">http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/</a><br>
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(and a follow-up from 2014, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/">http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/</a>).<br>
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The problem is that the suggestions are just ignored. Of course,
it won't stop us from making them again...<br>
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