[IGFmaglist] Thank you and Best wishes for the New Year

[Raquel Gatto]

Dear Lynn,

I want echo others and give big applauses to your work as Chair and to all the IGF Secretariat members - Chengetai, Anja, Eleonora and Luis. I want also add a special thanks to Mili and Wim as consultants for the intersessional tracks who have been instrumental to put all documentation and text together, even overnight.

It has been a pleasure to work with all of you!!

Wishing you happy holidays and a wonderful 2018!!

Raquel Gatto
Regional Policy Advisor
Internet Society


Em 29 de dez de 2017, à(s) 09:21, PeterMajor <pmajor at bluewin.ch<mailto:pmajor at bluewin.ch>> escreveu:

Dear Lynn,

I want to express to you, the MAG, the representatives of the host country and the Secretariat my appreciation for this successful IGF.
I wish you Happy New Year !

Peter Major



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On 28 Dec 2017, at 17:47, Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel at gmail.com<mailto:annerachel at gmail.com>> wrote:

Bravo to you Lynn, secretariat, MAG and community for pulling one of the best IGFs yet.

Happy New Year to all.
AR Inne

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Lynn St.Amour <st.amour at bluewin.ch<mailto:st.amour at bluewin.ch>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,

A very big and sincere thank you for all the hard work that went into making this IGF a success.   The program was very strong and topical, as the IGF secretariat reports that the largest category of sub-themes was "New Technologies & Emerging Issues”, covering topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Fakenews, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality, and Big Data among others.  This was followed closely by Cybersecurity.  And, registration was very strong - I understand it was either the 1st or 2nd highest ever; full statistics will be out later.

I would like to extend a big thank you to the Host Country Switzerland for all their support and especially their encouragement and willingness to experiment.  Specifically, with regards to the Opening Session where interactive panels (professionally moderated) with open mike sessions replaced the previous program of approx. thirty (30) stand-alone five (5) minute speeches.  This new format enabled some key messages to be fed into short, non-binding 'Geneva Messages’ which synthesized the key outcomes (and often the diversity of opinions on key policy issues) from the two high level sessions and the five main sessions. The messages were intended to contribute to the development of more tangible outcomes at the IGF as well as being able to share key points within a matter of hours after the sessions.  The messages were posted through the IGF meeting week, and will be added to the Chairs report.  See: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017-geneva-messages

These innovations and others were meant to address various requested areas of improvement.  They joined the newcomers track, the new format sessions, and the additional NRI collaborative sessions which addressed some key topics and were well organized by the NRI community.  It is clear that a lot of thought and work went into all the  sessions, and it showed.

All these innovations or pilots if you will, will be evaluated by both the outgoing and incoming MAG, so please stay tuned. As has often been said, once a MAG member, always a MAG member,

I have attached a presentation prepared by the IGF secretariat this past November for a CSTD meeting which was looking at the progress made against the recommendations in the CSTD WG on IGF Improvements.  It covers many other areas of improvements, including operations, etc. and is well worth the time to read.

Finally,  I wish you and all your loved ones the very best for the holidays and much happiness, health and success for the coming year.

With warmest wishes,

Lynn








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