Hello everyone, <div><br></div><div>I have been away from work until now but I would also like to get involved<span></span> in the IG4D interest group if you'll accept me.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div>
<div>Adrian Quesada Rodriguez</div><div>Teaching Assistant</div><div>Technology, e-commerce & telecommunications dept.</div><div>Faculty of Law</div><div>University of Costa Rica</div><div><br><div><br>El jueves, 2 de enero de 2014, <<a href="mailto:office@kmjoseph.com">office@kmjoseph.com</a>> escribió:<br>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Interest Group Reboot?</div></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Happy New Year 2014 to all of you on this mailing list, the NCUCers
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<div>I expect it to be a very active year especially for the NCUC.<br></div>
<div>I'am adding myself to Banjamin to volunteer fo any IG4D interests
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<div>2013/12/31 Benjamin Akinmoyeje <span dir="ltr"><<a>benakin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Bill,
<div>Thank you for the email. It is well appreciated. Wishing you and everyone
Happy New Year in a few hours.</div>
<div>I took time to read you mail and I have decided to hashtag some key words
and phrases</div>
<div>#mechanism through which people who share common interests on </div>
<div>#substantive policy matters</div>
<div>#engage</div>
<div>#dialogue and collaboration</div>
<div>#movement doesn't wither away</div>
<div># step up</div>
<div>#take ownership </div>
<div>#keep afloat</div>
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<div>So I have processed everything you said and I perceive it is a good
idea.</div>
<div>My next steps will be to get access to the Ning website or links on
previous efforts to help give a more practical view of the work on ground. To
also see what has been done, that we help identify the gaps.</div>
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<div>The best thing to do is to try and coordinate various efforts and
interest in the area of IG4D within NCUC, just as you have mentioned.</div>
<div>I believe with proper mentoring and guidance we can revamp the old flames
and get notable outputs.</div>
<div>I am willing to volunteer for IG4D interests group.</div>
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<div>Thank you</div><span><font color="#888888">
<div>Benjamin</div>
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<div>On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:47 AM, William Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a>wjdrake@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Glad to hear you are interested in pushing the IG4D agenda. I
spent years doing that in IGF with what locally would count as some success
(four years of workshops and agitation yielded a series of main sessions,
which started well but became a bit mediocre). This has proven more
difficult in the ICANN context, as was demonstrated in the JAS debate on
Applicant Support for new gTLDs from developing countries and underfunded
entities.</div>
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<div>What we need is a mechanism through which people who share common
interests on substantive policy matters can engage in dialogue and
collaboration. These could be called Interest Groups, as per our
original proposal for an integrated NCSG, or they could be call Teams like
the functional/managerial ones we set up next year, or they could be called
something else, doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they have a
space and some people willing to serve as coordinators/facilitators to
ensure that conversation and movement doesn’t wither away.</div>
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<div>On our old Ning website we had the ability for members to sign up to
self-formed interest groups, and there were like a dozen people who said
they wanted to work on IG4D. There were also self-formed
interest groups on like a dozen other topics, e.g. FoE, IPR, IG, etc.
Alas, most of these drifted without coordination and commitment, and that
functionality was not retained when we moved to the new website.</div>
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<div>It would be very good to revisit the format of interest groups if there
are now people willing to steep up and take some ownership so they are kept
afloat. If for example you could be interested to do an IG4D interest
group, if Walid could be interested to do one on human rights, if Peter
wanted to do one on China/AP, if João wanted to do one on the Brazil meeting
etc.—right there we have the basis for some good new energy and potentially
notable outputs, whether Issue Briefs, web materials, PCP interventions, WG
participation, etc. And that just the Fellows…there may be a lot of
other members who have particular interests and are not equally jazzed by
the full range GNSO topics. NCUC should be a platform from which they
can collaborate with others on those topics of most keen interest to
them.</div>
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<div>I don’t know if it’s possible to reinstate the social networking
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