<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all, <br></div><div><br></div><div>
<div>As you may have seen, the IGF Secretariat has launched the nomination process at the request of the Executive Office of the
United Nations Secretary-General for the
<a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/internet-governance-forum-leadership-panel-call-for-nominations" target="_blank">
<b><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">inaugural Leadership Panel of the 2022 and 2023 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) cycles</span></b></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Following several rounds of open consultations, the Leadership Panel is a response to the Secretary-General’s
<a href="https://undocs.org/A/74/821" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Roadmap for Digital Cooperation</span></a>, which calls for strengthening of the IGF through, among other aspects,
<i>’’creating a strategic and empowered multi-stakeholder high-level
body, building on the experience of the existing multi-stakeholder
advisory group, which would address urgent issues, coordinate follow-up
action on Forum discussions and relay proposed policy
approaches and recommendations from the Forum to the appropriate
normative and decision-making forums</i>.’’ <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></span><p class="MsoNormal">CSCG,
and for this process, this includes APC and IGC, will run a nomination
process to identify nominees for the two categories:<br></p><ul><li>Two [2] at-large members (distinguished or prominent persons who do not fall under above stakeholder groups) and </li><li>Two [2] CEO-level (or deputy-level) representatives from each of the
other three stakeholder groups (civil society)<br></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please note, this does not mean we endorse the
process or the mechanism itself. We will send a letter with the
nominations that clearly reiterates our previous publicly stated
positions (such as this <font size="2"><a href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/open-letter-interpretation-paragraph-93a-un-secretary-generals-roadmap-digital-cooperation" target="_blank">Open letter on the interpretation of paragraph 93(a) of the UNSG's Roadmap on Digital Cooperation</a> and this on the <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/why-inclusive-transparent-and-accessible-global-digital-governance-more-crucial-ever" target="_blank">future of the IGF </a></font><a href="https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/why-inclusive-transparent-and-accessible-global-digital-governance-more-crucial-ever" target="_blank">on the Leadership Panel/Higher-level MAG</a>), including the
importance of maintaining the MAG's current role and not supplanting it,
the importance of diversity and inclusion, transparency etc and make
clear that our submission of nominees should not be read as endorsement.
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</p><br><p class="MsoNormal">We intend
that our nominations reflect the above criteria. Please note that to
receive a CSCG nomination for the IGF leadership panel you'll need
to send us (me and Valeria and Bruna cc'd) the information required on
the
<a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/leadership-panel-nomination-2022" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">online form</span></a>. We request this is done by <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><u><b>COB November 22 </b></u></span>so that we are able to submit by the deadline of <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><b>November 29. <br></b></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><u><b><br></b></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We look forward to receiving your nomination/s.</span><u><b><br></b></u></span></p></div><div><div id="gmail-m_-6499410546823730752gmail-:3vs" role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" class="gmail-CToWUd"></div><div role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false">Best</div><div role="button" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sheetal</span></div></div>
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