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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2014 20:45, Nick Ashton-Hart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>></span> wrote:<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">I will be around on Friday but unfortunately not the previous days as I'll be in Ottawa. <div><br></div><div>Regards, Nick<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><div><div>On 14 Nov 2014, at 16:14, Matthew Shears <<a href="mailto:mshears@cdt.org" target="_blank">mshears@cdt.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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Bill<br>
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Great idea thanks!<br>
<br>
For those who are attending the CSTD meeting, Friday will be key as
there will be a full day on WSIS. The report that Bill links to in
his mail will also be up for discussion. We should expect some/many
of the difficult discussions we witnessed during the WSIS+10 review
to resurface on Friday. The report is very fair one and worth a
read - but there will be states that will object to it and/or to
parts of it. I think it worthwhile that those of us who are
attending meet on Thursday to discuss how we can best coordinate our
interests.<br>
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Matthew<br>
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<div>On 11/14/2014 8:54 AM, William Drake
wrote:<br>
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Hi
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<div>Adding the governance list.<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><a href="http://doodle.com/g8kg32fxwxcehnab#table" target="_blank">http://doodle.com/g8kg32fxwxcehnab#table</a></div>
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<div>Best</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Bill</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Hi everyone,<br>
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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>
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Cheers,<br>
</div>
Ginger<br>
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