AW: [governance] Civil Society Members in Geneva

Sun May 22 04:19:14 EDT 2011

Hi Wolfgang:

I am not familiar with the UNCSTD meeting. Anriette and Marilia are our 
representative there.

Katitza

On 5/22/11 9:15 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> Thanks Katitza,
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> any information about outcomes from the MAG meeting?  And who nis going to monitor (or make a statement) in the forthcoming UNCSTD meeting?
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> wolfgang
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> Von: governance at lists.cpsr.org im Auftrag von Katitza Rodriguez
> Gesendet: Sa 21.05.2011 19:01
> An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Katitza Rodriguez
> Betreff: [governance] Civil Society Members in Geneva
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> 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):
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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