[governance] Re: [bestbits] CS @ MAG & IGF /WSIS+10 meetings in Geneva

Fri Nov 14 15:07:08 EST 2014

Looking forward to these discussions, please make arrangements for remote
participation.

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On 14 November 2014 20:45, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro> wrote:

> I will be around on Friday but unfortunately not the previous days as I'll
> be in Ottawa.
>
> Regards, Nick
>
>
> On 14 Nov 2014, at 16:14, Matthew Shears <mshears at cdt.org> wrote:
>
>  Bill
>
> Great idea thanks!
>
> For those who are attending the CSTD meeting, Friday will be key as there
> will be a full day on WSIS.  The report that Bill links to in his mail will
> also be up for discussion.  We should expect some/many of the difficult
> discussions we witnessed during the WSIS+10 review to resurface on Friday.
> The report is very fair one and worth a read - but there will be states
> that will object to it and/or to parts of it.  I think it worthwhile that
> those of us who are attending meet on Thursday to discuss how we can best
> coordinate our interests.
>
> Matthew
>
> On 11/14/2014 8:54 AM, 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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>
>  ***********************************************
> William J. Drake
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>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
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>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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