<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">hello all</span><span>,</span><br><br> <span class="">The information given by</span> <span class="">William</span> <span class="">were interesting and</span> <span class="">edifying</span><span>.</span> <span class="">In my opinion</span><span class="">, it is necessary</span> <span class="">that</span> <span class="">both the regional and</span> <span class="">global</span> <span class="">IGF</span> <span class="">national level,</span> <span class="">continental</span> <span class="">must include in</span> <span class="">their programs of activities</span> <span class="">a specific section</span> <span class="">on preparations for</span> <span class="">the</span> <span class="">IGF</span> <span class="">next year</span><span>.</span><br> <span class="">This implies</span> <span class="">that each</span> <span class="">nationality</span> <span class="">IGF</span><span>, regional and</span> <span class="">continental</span> <span class="">a rapid</span> <span class="">assessment is made</span> <span class="">to gather</span> <span class="">the concerns</span> <span class="">of all stakeholders</span> <span class="">in the form</span> <span class="">of</span> <span class="">recommendations.</span> <span class=""><br><br>I think</span> <span class="">at the stage</span> <span class="">where we are</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="">it would make sense</span> <span class="">that we resume</span> <span class="">the form</span> <span class="">of the preparatory meetings</span> <span class="">and</span> <span class="">improve the</span> <span class="">formula</span> <span class="">REFERRING</span> <span class="">to the following:</span><br><br> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,255)"><i><span class="">a.</span> <span class="">Improved results</span><span>:</span> <span class="">Improvements can be</span> <span class="">implemented,</span> <span class="">including</span> <span class="">creative ways to</span> <span class="">deliver</span> <span class="">results /</span> <span class="">recommendations</span> <span class="">and analysis</span> <span class="">of policy options;</span><br> <span class="">b</span><span>.</span> <span class="">Extending the mandate</span> <span class="">of the</span> <span class="">IGF</span> <span class="">beyond the</span> <span class="">five-year terms</span><span>;</span><br> <span class="">c</span><span>.</span> <span class="">Ensure a stable and</span> <span class="">predictable funding</span> <span class="">guaranteed for the</span> <span class="">IGF</span><span>, including</span> <span class="">through a</span> <span class="">broader</span> <span class="">base</span> <span class="">of</span> <span class="">donors,</span> <span class="">is essential</span><span>;</span><br> <span class="">d.</span> <span class="">The</span> <span class="">IGF should</span> <span class="">adopt mechanisms to</span> <span class="">promote exchanges</span> <span class="">between meetings</span> <span class="">worldwide</span> <span class="">through</span> <span class="">dialogue</span> <span class="">sessions.</span></i></span><br><br> <span class="">NM</span> <span class="">has given a new</span> <span class="">impetus to the</span> <span class="">IGF</span> <span class="">but it</span> <span class="">also drew</span> <span class="">new</span> <span class="">perspectives on</span> <span class="">the issues and</span> <span class="">challenges</span> <span class="">not only</span> <span class="">Internet applications</span> <span class="">but also</span> <span class="">its use by</span> <span class="">users</span> <span class="">according to</span> <span class="">their area of</span> <span class="">responsibility.</span><br><br> <span class="">Do not</span> <span class="">lose sight of</span> <span class="">that with the</span> <span class="">exponential growth</span> <span class="">of digital technology</span> <span class="">which has the</span> <span class="">axis of rotation</span> <span class="">the</span> <span class="">"internet",</span> <span class="">new threats</span> <span class="">are emerging</span> <span class="">that the international community</span> <span class="">must take all</span> <span class="">responsibility.</span><br><br> <span class="">There are</span> <span class="">new</span> <span class="">powers</span> <span class="">have emerged</span> <span class="">and</span> <span class="">continue to emerge</span> <span class="">through the facilities</span> <span class="">offered by</span> <span class="">digital technology.<br><br></span></span></div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Baudouin<br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-14 9:54 GMT+01:00 William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjdrake@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi<div><br></div><div>Adding the governance list.<br><div><br></div><div>To Ginger’s point: First, please not that tomorrow 15 November is the last day to do online registration for the IGF open consultation and MAG meeting.  After that, getting in may require you to arm wrestle the ITU’s praetorian guard.   </div><div><a href="https://intgovforum.org/cms/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=30&Itemid=28&year=2014&month=12&day=01&title=igf-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting&uid=0f4d62692449d836cd076da879ff1f11" target="_blank">https://intgovforum.org/cms/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=30&Itemid=28&year=2014&month=12&day=01&title=igf-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting&uid=0f4d62692449d836cd076da879ff1f11</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Second, Lea has suggested that retiring and incoming CS MAG members get together for some updating and brainstorming on the current state of play in MAG.  I think this would be a really good idea, as it has often been difficult in recent years to get the CS contingent to strategically collaborate, and we have an opportunity to reboot efforts here.  This would be particularly important with respect to this meeting, which should significantly impact whether the IGF takes seriously the NETmundial mandate with regard to strengthening the process:</div><div><br></div><div><i>Improvements should include inter-alia:<br>a. Improved outcomes: Improvements can be implemented including creative ways of providing outcomes/recommendations and the analysis of policy options;<br>b. Extending the IGF mandate beyond five-year terms;<br>c. Ensuring guaranteed stable and predictable funding for the IGF, including through a broadened donor base, is essential;<br>d. The IGF should adopt mechanisms to promote worldwide discussions between meetings through intersessional dialogues.  <br>A strengthened IGF could better serve as a platform for discussing both long standing and emerging issues with a view to contributing to the identification of possible ways to address them.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Some of these were key objectives that the IGC promoted since 2005 before interest in the IGF dissipated a bit in recent years.  Now with the NM statement as a platform there’s never been a better time to push to make the IGF a bit more focused, useful, and hopefully able to draw back into discussion more developing country government participants.  However it will not be easy as there are well organized forces who’d oppose any changes that make the IGF more than a talk shop, and the chair is, to put it mildly, rather cautious.  Hence the current draft agenda for the MAG meeting relegates intersessional work and improved outcomes to being just one of four topics covered in a three hour session, not a promising start.  I noted that would not be enough time, and received the zen response that we have the time we have (much of which is in fact underprogrammed).  So if CS cares to push for a more focused discussion and an action-oriented IGF, this would require coordination.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe some people will be arriving arriving the previous week, as the CSTD intersessional <a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610" target="_blank">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610</a>  is currently scheduled to take up the IG mapping exercise and WSIS+10 issues the afternoon of Thursday 27 November and all day Friday 28th.  Monday 1 Dec is the IGF open consultation, 2-3 Tues-Wed is the open MAG meeting.  </div><div><br></div><div>I’ve created a Doodle poll to see who will be around when and whether we might get be able to together for some strategizing regarding these important meetings.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://doodle.com/g8kg32fxwxcehnab#table" target="_blank">http://doodle.com/g8kg32fxwxcehnab#table</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div>PS:  WSIS+10 Mavens might want to check out the new SG report, <a href="http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/CSTD_2014_wsis10review_report_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/CSTD_2014_wsis10review_report_en.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 13, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Ginger Paque <<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com" target="_blank">gpaque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi everyone,<br></div>As a new CS member of the MAG, I hope you 
will all be vocal in letting me/us know what positions we should 
emphasise for IGF2015, in particular for attending the issues of highest
 importance for LAC. I/we count on your input and expertise. I like Carolina's idea of a hangout or other meeting to discuss priorities and strategies before the December open consultations and MAG meeting.<br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Ginger<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ginger (Virginia) Paque</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">IG Programmes, DiploFoundation</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333339691162px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br><font size="1"><em style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:21px">Application deadline approaching: </em><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:21px"> Master/PGD in Contemporary Diplomacy with Internet Governance option   </span><a href="http://diplomacy.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=89e7299f9fe54eed66d45cf3d&id=68a4fc5e88&e=bc0aff4eba" style="color:rgb(0,129,145);font-family:Helvetica;line-height:21px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word!important" target="_blank">http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses/MAPGD</a></font></div><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font size="1"><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses" style="font-family:Helvetica;line-height:21px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"></a></font></i><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" size="1"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-style:italic"><i><i><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(35,71,162)"></span></a></i></i></span></span></font><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-height:16px"></span><span style="padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-height:16px"></span><div><i></i><br><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></i></b></span></div></span></div></div></div></div>
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