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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This week's
pre-IGF online discussions</font></h2>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><strong>IGF
strategy and strengthening in 2020: A series of pre-IGF
online discussions convened by the IGF MAG chair and the
MAG Working Group on IGF Strategy and Strengthening during
September and October 2020</strong></font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The IGF's mandate
was renewed for a further 10 years by the UN General
Assembly in December 2015. The current year, 2020, marks
the midway point of this extended mandate. In addition, the
recently released UN Secretary-General's Roadmap for
Digital Cooperation and its support for a strengthened and
expanded IGF (the IGF+) presents the opportunity for deeper
engagement on the IGF's achievements and challenges and for
exploring approaches for addressing emerging Internet
policy issues.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">To reflect on the
IGF's achievement of its mandate and contribute to the
discussion on the architecture for digital cooperation, the
IGF MAG chair, in collaboration with the IGF MAG Working
Group on IGF Strengthening and Strategy, is convening a
series of online discussions during September and October
2020. </font></p>
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style="line-height:100%"><strong>1. Frameworks for
addressing emerging Internet issues in the context of
cooperation in policy design</strong> - Tuesday 20
October 2020 13:00-15:00 UTC - Register at </span><a
href="https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/98663242064"
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">2. <span
style="line-height:100%"><strong>Perspectives on IGF
outcomes and outputs: Representation, legitimacy and
follow-up in multistakeholder policy processes</strong>
- Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-15:00 UTC- </span>Register
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="line-height:100%"><strong>Frameworks for addressing
emerging Internet issues in the context of cooperation
in policy design</strong> - Tuesday 20 October 2020
13:00-15:00 UTC - Register at </span><a
href="https://intgovforum.zoom.us/j/98663242064"
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frameworks for addressing emerging
Internet issues. Several organisations
and academic institutions are currently
developing such frameworks which can have
an important impact on how policy is
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While we have all accepted that the
Internet is an essential part of our
societies, it is hard to provide a single
definition of what it is. The Internet is
not 'one' thing and it is not a monolith.
At the same time, in the absence of a
definition, it is often hard to analyze
its evolution, explain which developments
are healthy and which are not, and
understand how some approaches could be
problematic. On top of that, there is also
the tangible danger that the Internet
with a capital "I" might simply disappear
from the discourse, subsumed by higher
level concepts, such Digital economy,
Digital transformation, etc..</span></span></font></p>
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style="font-family:"Liberation
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address these issues is to look at some of
the properties that characterize the
Internet. These properties should not be
seen in isolation but in conjunction with
the benefits they generate. This will
allow us to better understand their
relationship to the Internet's successful
evolution. There are several efforts that
follow this approach, for instance the
work by the MIT team (W. Lehr, D. Clark
et al "Wither the Public Internet"), "The
Idealised Internet vs. Internet
Realities" by the New America's
Cybersecurity Initiative. Finally, the
Internet Society work on "Internet
Invariants: What Really Matters" and now
its further development in the "Critical
Properties of the Internet Way of
Networking (IWN)".</span></span></font></p>
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discussion is to: a. solicit feedback on
the properties that are identified by
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community to identify use cases and case
studies that could use such a framework as
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Leslie
Daigle,Leslie Daigle, Global Technical
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Justin
Sherman, Justin Sherman is a fellow at the
Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">David
Clark, technical director of the MIT
Internet Policy Research Initiative at CSAIL</font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Konstantinos
Komaitis, Senior Director, Policy
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Robachevsky, Senior Director, Technology
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Laura
DeNardis, <span style="caret-color: rgb(52,
52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Professor
and Interim Dean of the School of
Communication at American University in
Washington, <a
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title="Dynamic Coalition"
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Chair and the Internet Society </span></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Leslie
Daigle: <a
href="https://www.thinkingcat.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019-InvariantsUpdated.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.thinkingcat.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019-InvariantsUpdated.pdf</a></font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">David
Clark: <a
href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jinfopoli.9.2019.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents"
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Robert
Morgus and Justin Sherman: <a
href="https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/idealized-internet-vs-internet-realities/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/reports/idealized-internet-vs-internet-realities/</a> </font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Konstantinos
Komaitis and Andrei Robachevsky (Internet
Society): <a
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/internet-impact-assessment-toolkit/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/internet-impact-assessment-toolkit/</a> </font></p>
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style="line-height:100%"><strong>2. Perspectives on IGF
outcomes and outputs: Representation, legitimacy and
follow-up in multistakeholder policy processes</strong>
- Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-15:00 UTC - </span>Register
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consider how the IGF can evolve towards
more focused policy discussions which
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the challenge of how to frame the IGF
outputs when not all stakeholders or
views are represented in the sessions that
produce them. Equally, BPFs and DCs can
only be said to represent the views of
those who participate (and generally
have specific interests for doing so).
That's not to say that any policy
recommendations that come out of such
sessions or processes are invalid. But it
can be used to question their value and
legitimacy. This session will discuss the
challenges the IGF faces in producing
multiple outcomes and policy suggestions,
from multiple sources, without any single
way of having a community-wide
endorsement of the outputs.</span></span></font></p>
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Drake, University of Zurich</span></span></font></p>
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Wagner, Brazilian Internet Steering
Committee, CGI.br and member of the IGF <a
href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/lexicon/8#WG"
title="(MAG) Working Group"
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MAG chair</span></span></font></p>
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title="United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs"
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and member of the IGF MAG (tbc)</span></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12pt">Paul Charlton, </span>Senior
Policy Advisor, International
Telecommunications and Internet Policy
Directorate, Innovation, Science and Economic
Development Canada (ISED) and member of the
IGF MAG</font></p>
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style="font-size:12pt">Fiona Alexander, </span><span
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Strategist, School of International
Service, </span></span><span
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rgb(52, 52, 52); background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">American University in
Washington, DC</span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12pt">Raul Echeberria,
member of the IGF WG-strategy</span></font></p>
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co-coordinator, IGF Dynamic Coalitions and
past IGF MAG chair and IGF Executive
Secretary</span></span></font></p>
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