[governance] IGF plus IGC + only members list.

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Dear IGC members (plus other stakeholders in this list):

I want to inform civil society IGC members that only four civil society 
MAG members were able to attend the last Open Consultation and MAG 
meeting. The civil society MAG members were: Valeria Betancourt, Fouad 
Bawja, Graciela Selaimen, and myself.

It is important to understand that four civil society MAG members are 
not enough to allow civil society to effectively monitor and shape "all" 
the main sessions for the next IGF. During the OC, we have requested the 
IGF Secretariat to provide us with a better understanding of the current 
list of civil society MAG members, and the need to fill out those civil 
society slots in the MAG so we can keep the balance between all 
stakeholders.

In this MAG meeting, we were able to cover between 3-4 sessions. In the 
next days to come, we will be monitoring the other sessions (which will 
not be able to monitor in-situ) to make sure civil society voice is 
included. As a MAG member, my main concern is the SOP session. If you 
want to send me a "private message" about the issues that you consider 
should be discussed, please do so by sending an email to katitza at eff.org 
Our main input for discussion is the February Open Consultation where 
many of you (and other stakeholders) provided valuable comments, and we 
will work hard to ensure that those suggestions are included.

I also would like to call attention to the fact that this list is open 
to other stakeholders including public authorities, government 
officials, technical community, and business sector representatives. 
Therefore, members need to understand that MAG members have a very 
difficult task to share strategies in a public list. Any public strategy 
that we can share here, can always harm our collective efforts in spaces 
where disclosing your strategy in advance is a big problem and can harm 
our work.

I would like to ask the coordinators to create a list for IGC-only 
members that is close to their members. In that way, civil society MAG 
members will be able to provide a better report after the meeting.

All the best, Katitza













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