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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi Bill,<BR>
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I’m moving house over the next ten days and will not be able to participate much if at all. However,<BR>
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Our three most recent submissions to IGF on this particular subject can be found at<BR>
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(One carries the subject Role of IGF) <BR>
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Many of us also made individual submissions which can be found at the url you mention below. I note there is no IGC statement as such in this latest round, so it would be nice I guess even if we have nothing new to say.<BR>
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I don’t think our answers will have changed much since our last submissions on this subject. But if there are substantive new things we want to say and can agree to, by all means lets express them here and see if there is anything new to add to this. <BR>
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On 5/07/09 7:03 PM, "William Drake" <william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.5pt'>Hi,<BR>
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Skimming and deleting over morning coffee, a random thought occurs: is this still the listserv of the IGC? It hasn't been obvious of late. It's been quite awhile since there much traffic from people who are in the IGC discussing the sort of concerns for which we established the list seven years ago, and it's not like there are no live issues out there. For example, do we not intend to submit a group statement on the IGF review by the July 15 deadline? We had some preliminary discussion on this in May and people indicated a preference for some focused dialogue leading to a statement of more than a couple paragraphs outlining why the caucus favors renewal. Given the rather variable inputs the UN and the IGF secretariat (for the Sharm synthesis paper) will be receiving from member governments, one would think this is an important thing to do. <BR>
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Comments on the review process so far are at<BR>
<a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=FormalConsult032009ListView">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=FormalConsult032009ListView</a><BR>
(Great URL, I love the website ;-)<BR>
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The questions we are asked to address are:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>1. To what extent has the IGF addressed the mandate set out for it in the Tunis Agenda?<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Arial">2. To what extent has the IGF embodied the WSIS principles?<BR>
3. What has the impact of the IGF been in direct or indirect terms? Has it impacted you or your stakeholder group/institution/government? Has it acted as a catalyst for change?<BR>
4. How effective are IGF processes in addressing the tasks set out for it, including the functioning of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), Secretariat and open consultations? <BR>
5. Is it desirable to continue the IGF past its initial five-year mandate, and why/why not?<BR>
6. If the continuation of the Forum is recommended, what improvements would you suggest in terms of its working methods, functioning and processes?<BR>
7. Do you have any other comments?<BR>
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Surely we can manage answers to these in the next ten days, no?<BR>
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Best,<BR>
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Bill<BR>
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Centre for International Governance<BR>
Graduate Institute of International and<BR>
Development Studies<BR>
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