[bestbits] CS @ MAG & IGF /WSIS+10 meetings in Geneva

Tue Nov 18 10:31:01 EST 2014

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Hello everyone,

Very proud to be part of a strong CS team for MAG, and looking forward
also to working with everyone. I have been travelling and jst catching
up with emails now. Tried the doodle, but it's not opening for me.
Maybe because the period has ended. Either way, am looking forward to
collaboration and discussion and working togetehr.

Best,
jac

On 14/11/2014 18:55, aida mahmutovic wrote:
> Thank you Anriette for adding me to this conversation. Please do
> count on me in the future. I look forward to our CS collaboration
> to come in stronger in next IGF.
> 
> Kind regards to all, aIDA
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen
> <anriette at apc.org <mailto:anriette at apc.org>> wrote:
> 
> Very good idea to have a meeting Bill. I have responded to your 
> Doodle poll.
> 
> Also copying Aida Mahmutovic from One World South East Europe and 
> John Dada from Fantsuam Foundation and Jac sm Kee who are also new 
> on the MAG.
> 
> Anriette
> 
> On 14/11/2014 10:54, William Drake wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Adding the governance list.
>> 
>> To Gingerâs point: First, please not that tomorrow 15 November
>> is the last day to do online registration for the IGF open 
>> consultation and MAG meeting.  After that, getting in may
>> require you to arm wrestle the ITUâs praetorian guard. 
>> https://intgovforum.org/cms/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=30&Itemid=28&year=2014&month=12&day=01&title=igf-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting&uid=0f4d62692449d836cd076da879ff1f11
>> 
>> 
>> Second, Lea has suggested that retiring and incoming CS MAG 
>> members get together for some updating and brainstorming on the 
>> current state of play in MAG.  I think this would be a really
>> good idea, as it has often been difficult in recent years to get
>> the CS contingent to strategically collaborate, and we have an 
>> opportunity to reboot efforts here.  This would be particularly 
>> important with respect to this meeting, which should
>> significantly impact whether the IGF takes seriously the
>> NETmundial mandate with regard to strengthening the process:
>> 
>> /Improvements should include inter-alia: a. Improved outcomes:
>> Improvements can be implemented including creative ways of
>> providing outcomes/recommendations and the analysis of policy
>> options; b. Extending the IGF mandate beyond five-year terms; c.
>> Ensuring guaranteed stable and predictable funding for the IGF, 
>> including through a broadened donor base, is essential; d. The
>> IGF should adopt mechanisms to promote worldwide discussions
>> between meetings through intersessional dialogues. A strengthened
>> IGF could better serve as a platform for discussing both long
>> standing and emerging issues with a view to contributing to the
>> identification of possible ways to address them./
>> 
>> Some of these were key objectives that the IGC promoted since
>> 2005 before interest in the IGF dissipated a bit in recent years.
>> Now with the NM statement as a platform thereâs never been a
>> better time to push to make the IGF a bit more focused, useful,
>> and hopefully able to draw back into discussion more developing 
>> country government participants.  However it will not be easy as 
>> there are well organized forces whoâd oppose any changes that
>> make the IGF more than a talk shop, and the chair is, to put it
>> mildly, rather cautious.  Hence the current draft agenda for the
>> MAG meeting relegates intersessional work and improved outcomes
>> to being just one of four topics covered in a three hour session,
>> not a promising start.  I noted that would not be enough time,
>> and received the zen response that we have the time we have (much
>> of which is in fact underprogrammed).  So if CS cares to push for
>> a more focused discussion and an action-oriented IGF, this would 
>> require coordination.
>> 
>> I believe some people will be arriving arriving the previous
>> week, as the CSTD intersessional 
>> http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610  is 
>> currently scheduled to take up the IG mapping exercise and
>> WSIS+10 issues the afternoon of Thursday 27 November and all day
>> Friday 28th.  Monday 1 Dec is the IGF open consultation, 2-3
>> Tues-Wed is the open MAG meeting.
>> 
>> Iâve created a Doodle poll to see who will be around when and 
>> whether we might get be able to together for some strategizing 
>> regarding these important meetings.
>> 
>> http://doodle.com/g8kg32fxwxcehnab#table
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> PS:  WSIS+10 Mavens might want to check out the new SG report, 
>> http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/CSTD_2014_wsis10review_report_en.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>> 
On Nov 13, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:gpaque at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi everyone, As a new CS member of the MAG, I hope you will all
>>> be vocal in letting me/us know what positions we should
>>> emphasise for IGF2015, in particular for attending the issues
>>> of highest importance for LAC. I/we count on your input and
>>> expertise. I like Carolina's idea of a hangout or other meeting
>>> to discuss priorities and strategies before the December open
>>> consultations and MAG meeting. Cheers, Ginger
>>> 
>>> Ginger (Virginia) Paque IG Programmes, DiploFoundation
>>> 
>>> /Application deadline approaching: / Master/PGD in
>>> Contemporary Diplomacy with Internet Governance option 
>>> http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses/MAPGD 
>>> <http://diplomacy.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=89e7299f9fe54eed66d45cf3d&id=68a4fc5e88&e=bc0aff4eba>
>>>
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> *//*
>> 
>> *********************************************** William J. Drake 
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