<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<div><br></div><div>+100 with one small addition</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Dear all<br>
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As there will be fairly dramatic rotation of civil society
representatives on the MAG this year (most of us are up for
rotation) I think it is very important that we submit well-prepared
written submissions, and that as many of us as possible attend the
December meetings.<br>
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I would suggest that IRP makes a submission was we need to make sure
that human rights issues do not slip off the agenda. We need some
fixed platform for synthesising rights issues at every IGF. The
Round Table format in my view works very well, but then it is
imperative that it is not scheduled to conflict with rights related
workshops as was the case in Istanbul.<br>
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And if both Best Bits and Governance can send inputs that will also
be good, and of course others too such as Just Net and NCUC. APC
will as always do our 'assessment' and use that as a basis for
submission.<br>
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The other thing that would be helpful would be for civil society
groups to have some idea about what theme or themes to support for
the next IGF<br>
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Also some specific things to focus on would be:<br>
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1) The Best Practice Forum mechanism - recommendations, feedback on
what worked what did not, etc.<br>
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2) Workshop proposal review process - a constant 'work in progress'
which still has flaws in my view<br>
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3) Format of the event - I am going to propose that the IGF makes
use of the services of someone who specialises in participatory
event organisation (very good people that we have worked with in the
past are <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://aspirationtech.org/events">https://aspirationtech.org/events</a>) <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>4) Strengthening the IGF, consistent with the NETmundial statement. Intersessional work to prepare a topic or two that is ‘mature’ enough to yield some measure of convergence and could be treated for one day in the NM manner could be a very useful way to demonstrate the increasing utility of the IGF to the UNGA and others. There are various ideas about how this might be done, and it’d be great to see some of them in submissions.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill<br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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So just a few thoughts. If CS groups are going to submit collective
inputs there is not that much time left to prepare them.<br>
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Best<br>
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Anriette<br>
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