<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone.<div><br></div><div>Thx Farzaneh for the briefing.</div><div><br></div><div>Are we still looking into bringing Youth IGF to our activities as proposed at IGF 2018?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Jean</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 5:10 AM farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We had a good online meeting with up to 25 civil society members in attendance on 13 December. I have the recording I can share with you. (I have asked if sharing the recording was ok with the participants there was no objection, but I give it a couple of more days before I share the recording)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">There was a brief overview of what was done during last year in venues such as RightsCon etc. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The issues that were discussed (as much as I remember): </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">We also discussed the merge of IGC and BestBits. It was decided that the co-coordinator of BB and IGC discuss and give a couple of weeks deadline to come to a conclusion on whether a merge would be good. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the suggestion to merge comes from the fact that civil society IG activities (especially at IGF) became fragmented. We need to pool our resources and I think Jeremy mentioned that the reasons behind the creation of BB are not around anymore. I believe we should make a decision on that soon hopefully and start pooling our resources into one effort. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The idea of mapping initiatives and focal points:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To keep things going and be more active in 2019, it would be good to map initiatives (Collin Kurre from Article 19 has good ideas about that)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I also suggested that we have focal points for each event or forum if we want to for example organize a session or be more coordinated in our efforts. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I volunteered to help IGC with coordination for IGF 2019, and civil society pre-event. I will also help IGC with drafting something a public comment for IGF taking stock call. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-8848182307842118604gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div>
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