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Great Idea Anriette, I agree, this is not only sometimes successful,
but shows organization and persistence. You can make it sound like
the forward to an OECD Guideline, could be fun!<br>
Stephanie<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-09-25 5:32 PM, Avri Doria wrote:<br>
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I think this is a great idea.
And once done it will be something we can build on. And generate
comments from with greater ease.
I.e something like
Recalling the comment made in 2012 <url>
and the comment made in 2013 <url>
acknowledging the smidgeon done in 2013 <url>
we again recommend ...
avri
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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.
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.
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.)
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?
Anriette
On 25/09/2014 18:33, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 25/09/2014 2:32 am, William Drake wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 submissions.
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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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/">http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/</a>
(and a follow-up from 2014, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/">http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/</a>).
The problem is that the suggestions are just ignored. Of course, it
won't stop us from making them again...
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