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<p>Thanks from me too for the summary Farzaneh. I am pleased that
this is happening.. thanks a lot to those who are making/made the
effort. I look forward to trying to be more active in this online
space (hopefully best bits and governance will merge).</p>
<p>Anriette<br>
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Association for Progressive Communications
apc.org
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018/12/17 10:33, Michael J. Oghia
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<div>He everyone,
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<div dir="auto">Thank you for this summary Farzi. I think
Nadira makes a good point about looking into that. I'm it
sure how each of these three organisations are structured,
but perhaps we should consider consolidation of all three
(if possible). <br>
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-Michael</div>
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<div>Thank you Farzaneh for your briefing.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I would like to comment on the merging
consequences that it will affect the structure of the </div>
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rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://internetgov-cs.org</a>
or the CSCG. The objective of "<span
style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"open
sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px">The CSCG has
co-operated with such bodies as international
Telecomunication Union, WSIS+10, UNDESA, Internet
Governance Forum, CSTD Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation, Netmundial Conference and Intiative and
1Net Initiative to nominate a diverse range of civil
society members as speakers and members of
committees and working groups"</span></div>
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<div dir="auto">I'm not sure if CSCG structure have been
discussed or not. It would be good to look into as
well.</div>
<div dir="auto">Best,</div>
<div dir="auto">Nadira </div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 23:10 farzaneh
badii <<a
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all,</div>
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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>
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was a brief overview of what was done during
last year in venues such as RightsCon etc. </div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The
issues that were discussed (as much as I
remember): </div>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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