[governance] Purpose and mandate of the MAG ?

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Dear all,

Here are a few preliminary comments on what the role(s) of the MAG could be.


*Purpose of the MAG*

The MAG is established for this first Athens event. A new one should be put
in place for next year.

Its role is to help organize the Athens event in terms of substance. This
could involve at least three elements :

- *Agenda-setting* : facilitating the establishment of the final list of
themes. In this context, the MAG role is less to make a final decision but
to catalyze and reveal the rough consensus (cf. Avri's previous comment that
rough consensus does not appear on its own but must be catalyzed).
This includes, when issues are contentious, suggesting formulations that are
acceptable to all parties in order to allow them to get on the Agenda
- *Identification of actors* : help identify possible speakers and relevant
organizations that should/must be involved on a given issue. This could mean
launching and managing a "call for speakers" on each issue retained on the
Agenda after the May meeting and a "call for identication of already
involved players" in order to form the introductory panels on each issue.
- *Promoting inclusiveness* : it is of the utmost importance that
participation in the Athens meeting involves actors from developing
countries and groups that were not involved directly in the WSIS process but
are relevant to the issues. MAG members in that respect should play an
active role in advertising the Athens Forum in other spaces (a sort of
ambassadorial role :-) and identifying ways and means (including financial
with the help of foundations or other supporters) to facilitate
participation of such actors

In a certain way, the members of the MAG would act as "Trustees" to
guarantee the embodiment of the principles of multi-stakeholderism in the
first meeting of the IGF.

Comments on these suggestions are of course highly welcome. I thought these
elements might also be helpful for the nomcom to select people that could
provide useful competences in that respect.

Best

Bertrand
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