<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear IGC members,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to seek your support for nomination as a civil
society representative for the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have been involved with Internet Governance (IG) since
2008 and have been working to strengthen the links that bring Latin America and
the Caribbean (LAC) together since the early 1990s. I have attended every IGF
meeting since Hyderabad in 2008 (Nairobi 2011 virtually), and also all of the
regional - Latin America and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF (LACIGF),
and sub-regional – Caribbean IGF, since 2009. My attendance at these meetings
was due to a broad range of funders to all of whom I am very grateful.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><ul><li>Within the IGF
environment I have worked, and am working, particularly with the Dynamic
Coalition for Access and Disability (DCAD), with the MAG Remote Participation Working
Group, and the now dormant <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/dynamic-coalitions/73-linguistic-diversity" target="_self"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Coalition Dynamique pour la Diversité Linguistique</span></a>
I have contributed to the work of the <span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/dynamiccoalitions/72-ibr" target="_self"><span style="color:rgb(64,103,148);text-decoration:none">Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles</span></a> and <a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/114-preparatory-process/1003-dynamic-coalition-on-public-libraries"><span style="color:rgb(64,103,148);text-decoration:none">Dynamic
Coalition on Public Access in Libraries</span></a></span><br></li><li><span style="color:black">I follow discussions on Bestbits and
the Justnet Coalition Forum, as well as on the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC)
list, and in other areas where IG is discussed. I try to be aware of those
issues that unite civil society, as well as of those issues about which there are
strongly divergent opinions</span><br></li><li><span style="color:black">For the last two years I have been one
of two Co-coordinators of the IGC.</span><br></li><li><span style="color:black">In 2014 I had the honour to be selected
as the speaker from civil society at the opening ceremony of the IGF in
Istanbul.</span><br></li><li><span style="color:black">I was invited, in several different
capacities, to be part of the pilot Stanford Deliberative Poll organised for
this year’s IGF</span><br></li><li><span style="color:black">I have good relationships across the
group that identifies itself as civil society and also with those belonging to
other constituencies. This is useful because the MAG should finally aim for
consensus across all of its constituent groups.</span><br></li><li><span style="color:black">My own priorities are in involving
ordinary end users in the IG process despite barriers of disability, language
and culture, gender, education, geographic location, etc. This brings with it a
strong interest in the facilitation and improvement of remote participation.</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><div><font color="#000000">Thank you all for your consideration</font></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><div><font color="#000000">Best wishes</font></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></p><div><font color="#000000">Deirdre</font></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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