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Dear Anriette,<div><br><div>Thanks for reporting about the start of the research. Thanks also for offering to give updates whenever you can especially sharing the link whenever something is announced for the public. </div><div><br></div><div>We will follow using Twitter. Good luck to all our representatives :)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>A</div><div><div>---------------------</div><div>Arsene Tungali,</div><div>IGC Co-coordinator</div><div>@arsenebaguma</div><div><a dir="ltr" href="tel:+243%20993810967" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">+243 993810967</a> (DRCongo)</div><a href="https://yho.com/footer0">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a> (excuse typos and brievity)<br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Friday, July 15, 2016, 3:06 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette@apc.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="msgSandbox_ANZVfbwAADBiV4jgBg6p6IY9Qw0_1" class="msgSandbox" style="padding: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em 1.2em; word-wrap: break-word;">Dear all<br><br>The UNDESA convened retreat on the IGF is starting. Some people will<br>tweet, and the secretariat will share summaries of discussion. Follow at<br>#igfretreat<br><br>Chatham House rule is being applied. So no attribution - we can write<br>about what was said but not by whem.<br><br>The agenda, information about participants and submissions in response<br>to the open call are all here:<br><br><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-retreat" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-retreat</a><br><br>Here is how the process is described on the site:<br><br>"Against that backdrop, a two-day working retreat is proposed by UN<br>Secretariat as part of the process of continual improvement of the IGF.<br>A strategic dialogue will be held among experts, policymakers and<br>practitioners in enriching IGF as the global forum for facilitating<br>multistakeholder policy discussion and exchange on public policy issues<br>related to key elements of Internet governance, in order to foster the<br>sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the<br>Internet (in line with its mandate as established by the Tunis Agenda<br>para 72)."<br><br>[snip]<br><br>Expected outcomes of the retreat include (but are not limited to): (i)<br>ways to improve the overall preparatory process of the IGF, the<br>structure and nomination process for the Multistakeholder Advisory Group<br>(MAG), and ways to strengthen the IGF Secretariat; (ii) measures to<br>engage those stakeholders who are currently unengaged, with a view to<br>expand and diversify physical and virtual participation; (iii) finding<br>ways to better capture the outputs of the IGF and increasing their<br>visibility and impact; (iv) ideas to support the work of national and<br>regional IGF initiatives, and leverage the synergies between them as<br>well as synergies with the IGF; and (v) modalities to ensure sustained<br>funding to support the IGF and the IGF Secretariat.<br><br>Thanks to CSCG for nominating me to be part of this process. Thanks to<br>to those of you who sent in submissions. There is rich content - and a<br>good mix of concrete and broader more analytical input among the<br>submission. Doing justice to all these ideas in a 2-day process will be<br>hard.<br><br>We have been reassured that this process is one of an longer and ongoing<br>process of facilitating debate about the IGF.<br><br>Anriette<br><br><br><br>-- <br>-----------------------------------------<br>Anriette Esterhuysen<br>Executive Director<br>Association for Progressive Communications<br><a ymailto="mailto:anriette@apc.org" href="javascript:return">anriette@apc.org</a><br>www.apc.org<br>IM: ae_apc<br><br></div><div id="msgSandbox_ANZVfbwAADBiV4jgBg6p6IY9Qw0_2" class="msgSandbox" style="padding: 1.5em 0.5em 0.5em 1.2em; word-wrap: break-word;">____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" href="javascript:return">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></div><blockquote>
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