<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><html><div id='yahoo__compose_area' style="background-color:white; display:block; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Regular,Helvetica; font-size:15px;">This is a good question raised by Judy and i would love to hear your thoughts on this:<div><br><font face="Times" size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the question is " what would it take for a "permanent seat" within the MAG for whoever may request for it. What is it that the secretariat may need to consider before coming to this conclusion? </span></font><br><br>Thanks,</div><div>A<br>------------------<br>Arsene Tungali,<br>Executive Director, Rudi International<br><a href="http://www.rudiinternational.org" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">www.rudiinternational.org</a><br><br>Founder, Mabingwa Forum<br><a href="http://www.mabingwa-forum.com"
x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">www.mabingwa-forum.com</a><br>Phone:<a href="tel:+243993810967" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">+243993810967</a><br><br>ICANN Fellow | ISOC Member | Child Online Protection Advocate | Youth Leader | Internet Governance.<br>Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)<br><br>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</div></div><div id='yahoo__original_message' class='yQTDBase'><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex; ">At 18 nov. 2014 07:13:22, parminder<'<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">parminder@itforchange.net</a>'> wrote:<br/> <br clear="none"><br/> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 18 November 2014 04:23 AM,<br/> Ian Peter
wrote:<br clear="none"><br/> </div><br/> <blockquote type="cite"><br/> <div dir="ltr"><br/> <div style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri';COLOR:#000000;"><span><br/> </span><div>UPDATE ON CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN NET MUNDIAL<br/> INITIATIVE.</div><br/> <div> </div><br/> <div>Please note that Internet Governance Civil Society<br/> Coordination Group (CSCG) participation in the new Net<br/> Mundial initiative is still under consideration. CSCG has<br/> written to the NMI Secretariat and Transitional Council<br/> suggesting that it play a co-ordinating role in the<br/> selection of civil society representatives in a<br/> coordinated bottom up manner, rather than these decisions<br/> being made by the Transitional Council (which has no civil<br/> society representation). This is
still under discussion;<br/> however, we do not yet have a proposal with sufficient<br/> clarity for member coalitions to be able to decide on<br/> participation or not. While Just Net Coalition (JNC) has<br/> already determined it will not participate, other members<br/> are waiting for clarity on our proposal for a bottom up<br/> and inclusive procedure for determining civil society<br/> representatives before making any final decisions on<br/> participation.</div><br/> </div><br/> </div><br/> </blockquote><br/> <br clear="none"><br/> Does this not constitute an in principle agreement to participate by<br/> the concerned CS actors, if NMI guys agrees to CSCG doing CS<br/> nominations, or something close to that... Further, Is Fadi wrong in<br/> taking that impression and making it public... I think you need to<br/>
make the facts such more clear and transparent about what is<br/> happening within the CSCG, what decisions and actions it takes and<br/> so on... parminder <div class="yQTDBase yqt7577432681" id="yqtfd85570"><br clear="none"><br/> <br clear="none"><br/> </div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="yQTDBase yqt7577432681" id="yqtfd62124"><br/> <div dir="ltr"><br/> <div style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri';COLOR:#000000;"><span><br/> </span><div> </div><br/> <br/> <div>Our letter to the NMI Secretariat and Transitional<br/> Council in no way signifies that any or all CS organisations<br/> have made a final decision on whether to engage with the NMI<br/> in a formal selection process or to participate in the NMI<br/> process.</div><br/> <div> </div><br/> </div><br/> </div><br/> <br clear="none"><br/> <fieldset
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