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On 4/01/2016 10:38 AM, Ginger Paque wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">The call for nominations for
the IGF 2016 MAG has been posted on the IGF website:</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/mag-renewal-announcement"
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">The deadline for submission
nominations through the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2016/index.php/MAG/nomination"
target="_blank">nomination form</a> is <b><u><span
style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><span>1
February 2016</span></span></u>. </b></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">This is an important
process, and I encourage interested people to join!</div>
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There will be a joint slate of civil society nominations again this
year, coordinated by the Civil Society Coordination Group now
jointly chaired by Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, and with Nadira
Alaraj acting as the liaison with the Best Bits list. Without
detracting from the ability for individuals to nominate, the
importance of a joint slate of nominations is that this is the way
that the other stakeholder groups interact with the UN, and this
lends greater weight to the nominations than if there is not a
coordinated slate of nominees. So we should all begin suggesting
names to be included in the joint slate.<br>
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I've never been on the MAG (the UN's "black box" doesn't like me, so
I'd given up applying), but based on my experiences with the
attempted introduction of more deliberative processes to the 2015
IGF such as the pilot use of Idea Rating Sheets and the Deliberative
Poll side event—which were strongly resisted by (some) private
sector MAG members—I perceive that it would be very useful this year
to have someone with direct experience of these pilots to be "on the
inside" to advocate for such innovations in IGF processes.
Therefore I would like to be nominated this year.<br>
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