<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Arsene,</div><div><br></div><div><ol><li>These are thoughts as someone who was on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) previously and have some historical and institutional knowledge of the context.<br></li><li>The MAG had been advocating for openness and transparency in being part of the process on collaboration with stakeholders including but not limited to the World Economic Forum (WEF).</li><li>There is a need to correct the "assertion that the WEF was singled out" nothing could be further from the truth. I am going to suggest to the MAG Chair to aside from having her blog to organise virtual town hall sessions to ensure that people can ask her things. Part of the past criticisms and recommendations towards improving the IGF was to reach out to diverse organisations and stakeholders to ensure that there is enhanced collaboration and communication and this is not limited to the WEF.</li><li>As you know the Internet Governance Form (IGF) is mandated by the UN General Assembly Resolution where the Secretariat collaborates with the MAG along with a host nation to host the IGF and also with the input of the community devise thematic concepts that the global community finds relevant so that the call for workshop proposals are made which are graded according to a criteria by the MAG and shortlisted.</li><li>When these Workshops are facilitated, they each have reports which make it to the Chair's Report, along with transcripts. Recommendations garnered are consolidated and available to the Public, that is civil society, governments and private sector.</li><li>Whilst the IGF is a neutral place setting, there have been numerous recommendations that have been adopted by organisations, governments, private sector and civil society. This has also led to the birthing of alliances, new interest groups and enhanced collaboration.</li><li>We live in a global borderless world where the internet is "everyone's" and no one can claim dominance on the subject even though from time to time you will see dog pissing contests where each one wants to mark their territory.</li><li>There are so many multiple forums, platforms that all want to talk about the internet and development whether these are E Commerce Rules negotiations within WTO or smart economies in UNCTAD, Regulations within the ITU, gTLD and WHOIS policies within ICANN, economic development in WEF, intellectual property rights in WIPO or financing as per the Addis Ababa Agenda.</li><li>You see nations, regional governments developing regulation and laws that impact basic things like privacy, cyber security or taxation to name a few.</li><li>All these forums and many more have a place to exist within the ecosystem. Now more than ever, one can see the increasing importance of the work done by the Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network to explore the conflicts and juncture of some of these collaborations and identifying bottlenecks.</li><li>As for the WEF, it is one of the few platforms where you will literally see Heads of State or Prime Ministers attend and some even change their approach to governance. For example, NZ Prime Minister Arden who was literally impacted from a WEF session and changed her government's approach including organising a review of the laws and getting NZ Treasury to redefine indicators on wellness based on outcomes from the WEF and drawing from OECD Studies and Reports.</li><li>We cannot ordinarily change the mechanism in which the WEF organises its sessions although we can offer comments unless you have people within changing the system but the fact that they are reaching out is a testament to the success of the IGF.</li><li>We have had to push for MAG Chair to include the WEF prior to participation which is what she is literally doing in that she has sent the draft for the MAG to comment on and in turn where members can involve their constituencies or organisations to input. </li><li>There is a member of the MAG from the WEF although to be fair individuals are MAG members in their personal capacity.</li><li>As for the Draft, I am content with the document and questions.</li></ol></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>Sala<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 2:14 AM Arsène Tungali <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
Meant to share this document here to have your thoughts about the<br>
collaboration between the IGF and WEF that MAG Chair is pushing for.<br>
<br>
I would like to hear your thoughts on the questions mentionned at the<br>
last page of the document.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Arsene<br>
<br>
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From: "Lynn St.Amour" <<a href="mailto:Lynn@internet-matters.org" target="_blank">Lynn@internet-matters.org</a>><br>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:32:46 -0500<br>
Subject: [IGFmaglist] IGF - World Economic Forum (WEF) Collaboration<br>
Discussion Document<br>
To: IGF Maglist <<a href="mailto:Igfmaglist@intgovforum.org" target="_blank">Igfmaglist@intgovforum.org</a>><br>
Cc: Derek O'Halloran <<a href="mailto:Derek.OHalloran@weforum.org" target="_blank">Derek.OHalloran@weforum.org</a>><br>
<br>
Dear MAG members,<br>
<br>
please find below a document in support of a discussion on possible<br>
ways to increase collaboration between the IGF community and the World<br>
Economic Forum (WEF). It builds on past collaborative efforts and is<br>
in support of Agenda item 4 in the IGF Open Consultation meeting:<br>
"Updates from related Internet Governance initiatives and processes,<br>
followed by open discussion on possible IGF 2019<br>
activities/collaboration”.<br>
<br>
Thank you to Derek O’Halloran and the WEF staff for their help<br>
creating this document.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Lynn<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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