[governance] East Africa IGF - day 2, discussion of ITRs

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 19/07/2012, at 10:43 PM, Izumi AIZU wrote:

> A few years ago,when we are trying to organize IGF Japan, I asked
> Markus what are the criteria to host an National IGF. The answer that
> time
> was " There is no fixed standard nor process to recognize natoinal or
> regional IGF. Just be open and multi-stakeholder".  I have not seen
> any explicit process or even discussion about the definition of regional and
> national IGFs.


Because of the general phobia of over-institutionalising the IGFs.  And like the Internet itself, this loose and bottom-up organisation has worked to a point, given the spread of so-called IGFs around the world (even if some of them don't bear much resemblance to what the IGF stands for - and I'm not pointing fingers at APrIGF with that comment).

But now is the time to start introducing a bit of structure, to improve the coherence and legitimacy of the larger IGF system.  The same applies to the dynamic coalitions, which suffered from the same problem and should be replaced by working groups (by nature if not by name).

If I were a civil society representative on the MAG, I would be seeking to add these items to its agenda, if not now then once the WGIGF report comes back from the GA (as I realise that the MAG Is in a sorry state to be doing useful things like that now).

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