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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/09/12 15:36, Salanieta T.
Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAJwbTiDjbDYF5MuJriHZSAiRNRdCxbnt5gPPA_BqU6X36yFR0w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">This is just to advise that I am in the process of
preparing an evaluation survey to assess the IGC. To get a sneak
preview of the type of questions (we have left it open ended so
you will not feel restricted/confined), please visit the etherpad
at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/IGC_2012_Survey">http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/IGC_2012_Survey</a>
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<div>Essentially the Background includes the vision and mission of
the IGC and the questions are primarily based on the Objectives
as set out in the Charter. This is still Draft and is being
translated into an electronic survey.</div>
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<br>
This is a very good initiative which poses some key questions that
are on my mind too. I still regard myself as a relative newcomer to
the IGC, despite having joined in 2006, because when the IGC was
first formed a few years earlier, it served a much more operative
purpose as one of the thematic caucuses of the Civil Society Plenary
at WSIS, with a very important role in that overall process
(including for example successfully nominating all of the civil
society candidates to the WGIG).<br>
<br>
Today it is more of a discussion forum than a representative body,
and this raises the question of whether it should remain so (and
perhaps it should - due to the now even greater diversity of our
members than during WSIS), and the subsidiary question of whether in
that case there should be some other coordinating peak body for
civil society activism on Internet governance issues - as this is
also arguably needed (like a CSISAC or an EDRI, but global).<br>
<br>
This is one of the topics to be addressed at Best Bits
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://igf-online.net/bestbits">http://igf-online.net/bestbits</a>, which (again, I promise!) I will
post an update about to this list soon. I hope as many IGC members
as possible will be able to attend.<br>
<br>
Let me know if you need help putting your draft into our Limesurvey.<br>
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