[NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: CS @ MAG & IGF /WSIS+10 meetings in Geneva

Fri Nov 14 16:14:49 CET 2014

I will be there.

Matthew

On 11/14/2014 9:24 AM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> I don't know how many of us here are interested in the broader IG 
> venues and discussions, but just in case, I thought I'd pass along the 
> below.  Would be good to see NCUC/SG people in Geneva too.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *Subject: **CS @ MAG & IGF /WSIS+10 meetings in Geneva*
>> *From: *William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com <mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com>>
>> *Date: *November 14, 2014 at 9:54:06 AM GMT+1
>> *Cc: *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito <ekenyanito at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:ekenyanito at gmail.com>>, Carolina Rossini 
>> <carolina.rossini at gmail.com <mailto:carolina.rossini at gmail.com>>, Lea 
>> Kaspar <lea at gp-digital.org <mailto:lea at gp-digital.org>>, Best Bits 
>> <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net <mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>>, 
>> Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org 
>> <mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>>
>> *To: *Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com <mailto:gpaque at gmail.com>>
>>
>> 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 
>>> <mailto: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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>>> Diplomacy with Internet Governance option 
>>> http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses/MAPGD 
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>>> //<http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses>//
>>>
>>> *//*
>>
>> ***********************************************
>> William J. Drake
>> International Fellow & Lecturer
>>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org <http://www.ncuc.org/>
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