[governance] New MAG announced

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Some civil society MAG members have also provided to the IGF Secretariat 
a consolidated excel that report a unify voice.

On 4/29/12 1:31 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 4/29/12 11:00 AM, Peter H. Hellmonds wrote:
>> What I haven't seen much evidence of is MAG members (eg) bringing 
>> their stakeholder group's input into discussions of the "traffic 
>> light" rating selection of workshops, or keeping them up to date with 
>> news from the mailing list.
>
> Workshops have been reviewed collectively in the past through Google 
> docs/excel through an invitation of a civil society MAG member to some 
> members of the IGC or a few members of the IGC has been also invited 
> to help in the organization of the main sessions (especially CIR) 
> since we did not have a MAG from civil society with the knowledge on 
> that topic: Izumi, Bill Drake, Marilia, and many others do so in 
> previous year. I think, its up to new MAG to decide how they want to 
> organize.
>
> BTW: Why changing the venue is a newsworthy event or it is just an 
> informational one?  Does it has an implication for civil society to 
> raise awareness of their work in  human rights? Unfortunately, I 
> wasn't able to attend the meeting remotely (the connection was not 
> working well for me ) and I haven't heard about it before. Any 
> explanation on that point would be really helpful for me (who is 
> trying to not get engage in  "process work" but focus on the 
> "substance". If there is a connection between the venue (current one) 
> and the ability of civil society to do their work in that venue, that 
> would be an important news that I also would like to know.
>
> Are we having problems with the venue? (I do not know).
>
> Katitza
>


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