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

Fri Nov 14 10:14:11 EST 2014

Bill

Great idea thanks!

For those who are attending the CSTD meeting, Friday will be key as 
there will be a full day on WSIS.  The report that Bill links to in his 
mail will also be up for discussion.  We should expect some/many of the 
difficult discussions we witnessed during the WSIS+10 review to 
resurface on Friday.  The report is very fair one and worth a read - but 
there will be states that will object to it and/or to parts of it.  I 
think it worthwhile that those of us who are attending meet on Thursday 
to discuss how we can best coordinate our interests.

Matthew

On 11/14/2014 8:54 AM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> Adding the governance list.
>
> To Ginger’s 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 ITU’s 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 there’s 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 who’d 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.
>
> I’ve 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
>>
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