[governance] Civil Society Members in Geneva

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Hi there,

I want to let you know that civil society members in Geneva worked 
extremely hard during the open consultation and the open MAG meeting. 
Those identify with civil society were: APC Anriette Esterhuysen and Joy 
Liddicoat, Marilia Maciel, Adam Peake, and Bill Drake. Please apologize 
me if I forgot of anyone else.

All the best,

Katitza


On 5/21/11 6:19 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
> Dear IGC members (plus other stakeholders in this list):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> All the best, Katitza
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