<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">+1<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#660000">Chantal Lebrument</font></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#660000">Courriel: <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"><a href="mailto:lebrument@open-root.eu" target="_blank">c</a><a href="mailto:hlebrum@gmail.com" target="_blank">hlebrum@gmail.com</a></span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#660000">Mob: +33 6 8369 5460</font></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#660000">Skype: chlebrum<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-20 12:26 GMT+01:00 Chris Prince Udochukwu Njoku <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:udochukwu.njoku@unn.edu.ng" target="_blank">udochukwu.njoku@unn.edu.ng</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Can the invitation letter be seen by others? It's possible for the invitation to be just for Lynn (because she has adequate credentials to deserve personal invitation), but she sees an opportunity in it to make some presentations on behalf of IGF. That's what I suspect from the clause: <span class=""><blockquote style="font-family:sans-serif"> "I/the IGF have been invited..."</blockquote></span><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">That's IMO also why it looks like MAG was bypassed.</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">If the invitation is personal, Lynn has every right and all it takes to attend the forum and do all the roles she had outlined, but any ideas/opinions/arguments she will present and any incidents are strictly hers. It doesn't (and can't) follow that because she's MAG chair she'll be representing MAG or IGF. If the invitation letter is specifically to IGF MAG Chair, then she's entltled to answer the invitation on that capacity, after properly informing the constituency. She may or may not seek anyone's inputs to what she'll say or do. However, an invitation letter to IGF certainly requires a process of determining the person or delegation to represent IGF in word and action. </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">I strongly think it's important for Lynn to explain her use of the forward slash between "I" and "the IGF". Is the invitation letter ambiguous (not clear about who's invited)?</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">CPU <br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div><div class="h5">On Jan 20, 2018 4:14 AM, "parminder" <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="m_2390540059837030131m_-7748518174621044845quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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On 19/1/18 5:11 am, parminder wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">I really did not know that IGF had its
own agency to represent itself at other forums. Whom does it
really represent? Because when you represent, you also speak
for. For whom does the it speak, and on what basis? .. That
is a mission creep which has been done without consulting or
even declaring.... <br>
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I actually agree with Parminder on this (yes, it does happen). Not
that I think that the IGF shouldn't be able to be represented in
an official way at other international institutions. On the
contrary, I strongly believe that it should be able to do so, </blockquote>
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That might be one view, but it was not ever proposed nor agreed to
by, lets use the term, "IGF community". This is always the problem
with so called or claimed "open and flexible process", they get
captured by whoever can expend the most resources. Norms and
structures then can accordingly work to ensure fairness and equity,
the values that should be central to progressive civil society<br>
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.... parminder <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">and the
fact that it hasn't been able to effectively deliver messages to
other institutions has been one of its chief failings. I also
don't blame Lynn St Amour for wanting to do this.<br>
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But this is not the way to do it! The liaison between IGF and WEF
(and IETF, ICANN, OECD, WTO...) should be formally
institutionalised in some way, so that there is accountability and
legitimacy. It shouldn't just be casually announced that "I/the
IGF have been invited...", as if the distinction is immaterial.<br>
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I do disagree in one minor respect with Parminder and that's that,
in my reading of what has happened, it's not that the MAG has
engineered this, but rather that it's been done in a way that
deliberately bypassed the MAG, because the MAG is so dysfunctional
that it stands in the way of the evolution of the IGF, in this and
other respects, and Lynn knows this.<br>
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But that doesn't make it right. If anything, this means the MAG
needs to be overhauled, not that it needs to be minimized and
bypassed. I support Parminder's call for the CS members of the MAG
to hold it accountable here and to call for the institution of a
proper, transparent and accountable process for the appointment of
formal institutional liaisons between the IGF and other bodies.<br>
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