[bestbits] IGF open consultation and MAG meeting December 2014

[William Drake]

Hi

+100 with one small addition

On Sep 25, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> As there will be fairly dramatic rotation of civil society representatives on the MAG this year (most of us are up for rotation) I think it is very important that we submit well-prepared written submissions, and that as many of us as possible attend the December meetings.
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> I would suggest that IRP makes a submission was we need to make sure that human rights issues do not slip off the agenda. We need some fixed platform for synthesising rights issues at every IGF. The Round Table format in my view works very well, but then it is imperative that it is not scheduled to conflict with rights related workshops as was the case in Istanbul.
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> And if both Best Bits and Governance can send inputs that will also be good, and of course others too such as Just Net and NCUC.  APC will as always do our 'assessment' and use that as a basis for submission.
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> The other thing that would be helpful would be for civil society groups to have some idea about what theme or themes to support for the next IGF
> 
> Also some specific things to focus on would be:
> 
> 1) The Best Practice Forum mechanism - recommendations, feedback on what worked what did not, etc.
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> 2) Workshop proposal review process - a constant 'work in progress' which still has flaws in my view
> 
> 3) Format of the event - I am going to propose that the IGF makes use of the services of someone who specialises in participatory event organisation (very good people that we have worked with in the past are https://aspirationtech.org/events) 

4)  Strengthening the IGF, consistent with the NETmundial statement.  Intersessional work to prepare a topic or two that is ‘mature’ enough to yield some measure of convergence and could be treated for one day in the NM manner could be a very useful way to demonstrate the increasing utility of the IGF to the UNGA and others.  There are various ideas about how this might be done, and it’d be great to see some of them in submissions.

Best

Bill
> 
> So just a few thoughts.  If CS groups are going to submit collective inputs there is not that much time left to prepare them.
> 
> Best
> 
> Anriette
> 
> Call for Input
> All stakeholders are invited to submit by 27 October 2014 written contributions taking stock of the Istanbul IGF meeting and looking forward to the IGF 2015 meeting, including suggestions on the format, schedule and themes. The written contributions will be synthesized into a paper that will form an input into the Open Consultations and MAG meetings of 1-3 December. Please send all contributions  to takingstock2014 at intgovforum.org.
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