<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Nnenna<div><br></div><div>That was a different group for CS @ WSIS generally. The IGC thing was the Multistakeholder Modalities Working Group (MMWG). Did some good work back in 2006 but then drifted off. I have a number of the docs still. This bit from a letter to Markus caused me to wince,</div><div><br></div><div><div><i>The MMWG sees the IGF primarily as a process in which an annual “Forum” is embedded and not as an independent singular event which takes place once a year. As the WGIG report has stated, there is “a vacuum” in the global discussion process with regard to Internet Governance. Such a vacuum would not be filled by a three or four day meeting every fall.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Sigh…</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Nnenna <<a href="mailto:nne75@yahoo.com">nne75@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div><br style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><br>Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, <a href="http://NNENNA.ORG">NNENNA.ORG</a> | Consultants<br>Information | Communications | Technology and Events | for Development<br>Cote d'Ivoire (+225)| Tel: 225 27144 | Fax 224 26471 |Mob. 07416820<br>Ghana: +233 249561345| Nigeria: +234 8101887065| <a href="http://www.nnenna.org">http://www.nnenna.org</a> <br><a href="mailto:nnenna@nnenna.org">nnenna@nnenna.org</a>| @nnenna | Skype - nnenna75 | <a href="http://nnennaorg.blogspot.com">nnennaorg.blogspot.com</a></span><br><span style="font-style: italic; "></span><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2">
----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rik Panganiban <<a href="mailto:rikp@earthlink.net">rikp@earthlink.net</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Robert Guerra <<a href="mailto:rguerra@cpsr.org">rguerra@cpsr.org</a>>; Derrick Cogburn <<a href="mailto:dcogburn@syr.edu">dcogburn@syr.edu</a>>; viola Krebs <<a href="mailto:viola@icvolunteers.org">viola@icvolunteers.org</a>>; Renata Bloem <<a href="mailto:rbloem@ngocongo.org">rbloem@ngocongo.org</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> <a href="mailto:v.bertola@bertola.eu.org">v.bertola@bertola.eu.org</a>; 'Jeanette Hofmann' <<a href="mailto:jeanette@wz-berlin.de">jeanette@wz-berlin.de</a>>; <a href="mailto:nne75@yahoo.com">nne75@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org">Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 22, 2004 7:26 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> heads up on new "CS Working Methods" group<br> </font> </div> <br>
Dear Viola, Robert, Derrick and Renata,<br><br>I just wanted to give you all fair notice that folks who met in Berlin on Saturday night are planning to send out to the plenary shortly an announcement of the formation of a "Civil Society Working Methods" working group to collaborate on the internal procedures and processes of civil society in the 2nd Phase of the WSIS. I know this is a subject near and dear to your hearts, so I didn't want you to be surprised by it.<br><br>This does not clash in any way with the Bureau's efforts to improve and evolve its own work and methods. In fact we hope it is a useful resource for any working group of the bureau that gets formed. But we think the orientation is distinctly different, since the bureau is focused on the modalities of civil society in relation to the official WSIS process, rather than internally among each other.<br><br>The starting point for discussions we feel should be what has been
learned from how we operated in WSIS I and what are the key principles that we should base our working methods on. The next steps are : what are key CS process questions to be addressed for WSIS-II, and what are some basic standards and working methods that we can all agree on to work effectively and democratically together.<br><br>An important goal is to make sure that we are much more effective at Prepcom II in February than we were at Prepcom I. I have attached my notes from our meeting, which is mostly just a list of questions and some process ideas.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Rik<br><br><br><br>===============================================<br>RIK PANGANIBAN Communications Coordinator<br>Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO)<br>web: <a href="http://www.ngocongo.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ngocongo.org</a><br>email: <a ymailto="mailto:rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org" href="mailto:rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org">rik.panganiban@ngocongo.org</a><br>mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524<br><br>** Please note CONGO's new mailing address: CP 50, 1211 Genéve 20, Switzerland. Our physical office address is 11, Avenue De La Paix, 1st Floor, 1202 Genéve, Switzerland. **<br><br> </div> </div> </div></div><span><workingmethodsmtg1104.doc></span>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>