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<font face="sans-serif">Enclosed is our first set of inputs to the
draft structure of WGIGF report circulated by the WG chair.<br>
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</font>And thanks Miguel for your very good points. parminder <br>
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Miguel Alcaine wrote:
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>I am also late to participate in this thread again.</div>
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<div>This might be one of my last active contributions to this
mailing list because in a short period of time, I will start working
for an entity where it is not possible to fit as civil society. Once
the formalities are done, I will post those details in this list. Dear
colleagues: Keep the great work, not only around the IGF and the UN,
but all around the IG ecosystem.</div>
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<div>I read all emails, highlighted some ideas and used them to
prepare the following comments as a draft summary (with some twisting
sometimes but hopefully without hurting the original idea) of this
thread so far. I expect, we will be in a position to submit something
based on this to the Secretariat as soon as possible.</div>
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<div> <strong>There is no suggestions yet on remote participation or
national and regional IGFs. Are they in another email thread?</strong></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">***Here is
the start of the draft summary***</font></div>
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<div>1) IGF mandate is defined in the Tunis Agenda, as well as the
recent UN General Assembly's directions to improve the IGF towards some
specific purposes.</div>
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<div><strong>2) IGF</strong></div>
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<div>2.1) People support having 2 days of workshops (workshop
phase) and consecutively 2 days of main sessions at IGF meetings. There
is awareness of the risks of high ranking participants chossing only to
be in the main session days. For that risk, there was a suggestion to
schedule something to attrack this people to assist from the beginning
but not in parallel with workshops. To my knowledge there were no
specifics on this suggestion.</div>
<div>2.2) The need for a positive output from IGF is widely shared.
The word "messages" is the best among other possible choices. They
should be non negotiated text from a recognized (and respected) source
as the chair, a rapporteur the secretariat or something else. (This
idea is taken to another level in the MAG section)</div>
<div>2.3) To be innovative and creative, 7 new roles for IGF were
propossed: i) observatory, ii) clearinghouse, iii) laboratory, iv)
school, v) scout, vi) early warning system and vii) wachtdog. Of those
iii and iv received support while on the others there is a need for
further discussion to clarified them.</div>
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<div><strong>3) Workshops.</strong> There are two kinds of workshops.
The first type should work in harmony with the respective main session.</div>
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<div>3.1) The bar should be higher to accept propossals. </div>
<div>3.2) The quality and the assurance of quality need to be
improved. </div>
<div>3.3) Should have A declared purpose or goal as part of the
evaluation process was suggested. </div>
<div>3.4) Could also identify messages that should be passed to the
respective main sessions. </div>
<div>3.5) Organizers should be efficient and held accountable.</div>
<div>3.6) There was even a suggestion to work backwards between the
respective main session and the workshops. This is to identify the
different parts a topic may have and guide the workshops in this sense
(This is exactly how the subrgroup mailing list made for the IG4D
session for the last IGF and my best guess is that the same approach
was followed by the subgroup on cloud computing). </div>
<div>3,7) The merge of different workshops, apparently similar, has
not worked out well in general (it does not work electronically and in
a "short" period of time). </div>
<div>3.8) Workshops atracting the same audience should not happen
at the same time. </div>
<div>3.9) Need to keep a truly multi stakeholder nature for the
workshops. </div>
<div>3.10) As a result of the preceding suggestions, there might be
an increase in negative responses to propossals.</div>
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<div><strong> 4) MAG</strong></div>
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<div>4.1) It was suggested that links should be established between
the MAG and other bodies wit actual decision making power, including to
feed into the EC mechanism, if it exists in the future.</div>
<div>4.2) As usually there is no time to transform rough material
into material that is fit for policy making during wrap up at workshops
or main sessions and therefore there is a need for more time and more
careful discussion to transform these summaries into something that can
serve as input for policy, MAG sould be charged with proposing action
lines regarding policies and regulation, based on the input received
from the IGF.</div>
<div>4.3) Should also be responsible to foster coordination with
other organizations on the IG ecosystem.</div>
<div>4.4) Should communicate the aforementioned action lines
regarding policies and regulation to the spaces/ forums/ bodies etc
that should and would make actual policies, and </div>
<div>4.5) MAG should keep up an ongoing process of reviewing what
has been happening to the outcomes of the IGF, and how well or not they
have been followed up".</div>
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<div><strong> 5) Intergovernmental Machinery</strong></div>
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<div>5.1) Amend ECOSOC res 2007/8 to require the IGF Secretariat to
submit directly its respective report to the CSTD Secretariat, as it is
the case already explicitly for GAID. This will be in addition of what
DESA includes in its respective report, as GAID and IGF are part of
DESA.</div>
<div>5.2) As CSTD is in charge of assisting ECOSOC with the
system-wide follow-up of WSIS, including the IGF, the CSTD and its
Secretariat should adopt - mutis mutandis - some of the effective
practices of the IGF and its Secretariat, like keeping its
multistakeholderism, remote participation and real time transcripts.</div>
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<div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">*** end of
the draft summary ***</font></div>
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<div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best,</font></div>
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<div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miguel</font></div>
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