[bestbits] IMPORTANT: Call for nominations for IGF 2016 MAG

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

It's great to know Nadira Alaraj will be acting as Bestbits liason.
Congrats, Nadira and good luck.

It would be also great for Jeremy Malcolm to participate in MAG as a
North American representative.

All the best,

Renata

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
> On 4/01/2016 10:38 AM, Ginger Paque wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The call for nominations for the IGF 2016 MAG has been posted on the IGF
> website:
>
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/mag-renewal-announcement
>
> The deadline for submission nominations through the nomination form is 1
> February 2016.
>
> This is an important process, and I encourage interested people to join!
>
>
> There will be a joint slate of civil society nominations again this year,
> coordinated by the Civil Society Coordination Group now jointly chaired by
> Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, and with Nadira Alaraj acting as the liaison
> with the Best Bits list.  Without detracting from the ability for
> individuals to nominate, the importance of a joint slate of nominations is
> that this is the way that the other stakeholder groups interact with the UN,
> and this lends greater weight to the nominations than if there is not a
> coordinated slate of nominees.  So we should all begin suggesting names to
> be included in the joint slate.
>
> I've never been on the MAG (the UN's "black box" doesn't like me, so I'd
> given up applying), but based on my experiences with the attempted
> introduction of more deliberative processes to the 2015 IGF such as the
> pilot use of Idea Rating Sheets and the Deliberative Poll side event—which
> were strongly resisted by (some) private sector MAG members—I perceive that
> it would be very useful this year to have someone with direct experience of
> these pilots to be "on the inside" to advocate for such innovations in IGF
> processes.  Therefore I would like to be nominated this year.
>
> --
> Jeremy Malcolm
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> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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