[governance] Re: [bestbits] CS @ MAG & IGF /WSIS+10 meetings in Geneva
ahmed eisa
ahmed22digital at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 06:21:28 EST 2014
dear friends
i might be geneva @UNCTAD at that time any possibility i can attend the
meeting of the wsis
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On 14 November 2014 13:49, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:
> Very good idea to have a meeting Bill. I have responded to your Doodle
> poll.
>
> Also copying Aida Mahmutovic from One World South East Europe and John
> Dada from Fantsuam Foundation and Jac sm Kee who are also new on the MAG.
>
> Anriette
>
> On 14/11/2014 10:54, William Drake wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Adding the governance list.
>
> To Ginger’s point: First, please not that tomorrow 15 November is the
> last day to do online registration for the IGF open consultation and MAG
> meeting. After that, getting in may require you to arm wrestle the ITU’s
> praetorian guard.
>
> https://intgovforum.org/cms/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=30&Itemid=28&year=2014&month=12&day=01&title=igf-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting&uid=0f4d62692449d836cd076da879ff1f11
>
>
> Second, Lea has suggested that retiring and incoming CS MAG members get
> together for some updating and brainstorming on the current state of play
> in MAG. I think this would be a really good idea, as it has often been
> difficult in recent years to get the CS contingent to strategically
> collaborate, and we have an opportunity to reboot efforts here. This would
> be particularly important with respect to this meeting, which should
> significantly impact whether the IGF takes seriously the NETmundial mandate
> with regard to strengthening the process:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Improvements should include inter-alia: a. Improved outcomes:
> Improvements can be implemented including creative ways of providing
> outcomes/recommendations and the analysis of policy options; b. Extending
> the IGF mandate beyond five-year terms; c. Ensuring guaranteed stable and
> predictable funding for the IGF, including through a broadened donor base,
> is essential; d. The IGF should adopt mechanisms to promote worldwide
> discussions between meetings through intersessional dialogues.
> A strengthened IGF could better serve as a platform for discussing both
> long standing and emerging issues with a view to contributing to the
> identification of possible ways to address them.*
>
> Some of these were key objectives that the IGC promoted since 2005
> before interest in the IGF dissipated a bit in recent years. Now with the
> NM statement as a platform there’s never been a better time to push to make
> the IGF a bit more focused, useful, and hopefully able to draw back into
> discussion more developing country government participants. However it
> will not be easy as there are well organized forces who’d oppose any
> changes that make the IGF more than a talk shop, and the chair is, to put
> it mildly, rather cautious. Hence the current draft agenda for the MAG
> meeting relegates intersessional work and improved outcomes to being just
> one of four topics covered in a three hour session, not a promising start.
> I noted that would not be enough time, and received the zen response that
> we have the time we have (much of which is in fact underprogrammed). So if
> CS cares to push for a more focused discussion and an action-oriented IGF,
> this would require coordination.
>
> I believe some people will be arriving arriving the previous week, as
> the CSTD intersessional
> http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610 is
> currently scheduled to take up the IG mapping exercise and WSIS+10 issues
> the afternoon of Thursday 27 November and all day Friday 28th. Monday 1
> Dec is the IGF open consultation, 2-3 Tues-Wed is the open MAG meeting.
>
> I’ve created a Doodle poll to see who will be around when and whether we
> might get be able to together for some strategizing regarding these
> important meetings.
>
> http://doodle.com/g8kg32fxwxcehnab#table
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
> PS: WSIS+10 Mavens might want to check out the new SG report,
> http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/CSTD_2014_wsis10review_report_en.pdf
>
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> As a new CS member of the MAG, I hope you will all be vocal in letting
> me/us know what positions we should emphasise for IGF2015, in particular
> for attending the issues of highest importance for LAC. I/we count on your
> input and expertise. I like Carolina's idea of a hangout or other meeting
> to discuss priorities and strategies before the December open consultations
> and MAG meeting.
> Cheers,
> Ginger
>
> Ginger (Virginia) Paque
> IG Programmes, DiploFoundation
>
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