[bestbits] IGF open consultation and MAG meeting December 2014

[William Drake]

Hi

On Sep 25, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> On 25/09/2014 2:32 am, William Drake wrote:
>> 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.
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> Agreed, but it's not as if these ideas have not already been put forward ad infinitum over previous years. Consider this Best Bits submission from 2013, which remains equally relevant today:
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> http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/
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> (and a follow-up from 2014, http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/).
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> The problem is that the suggestions are just ignored.  Of course, it won't stop us from making them again…

But as we’ve seen, some other stakeholders have become more amenable in light of the progression of events, and we have the NETmundial statement as tool that can be leveraged.

Best,

Bill
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