[IGFmaglist] Summary of MAG Virtual Meeting X - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 20:00 UTC [Sala's Records]

[Mary Uduma]

Thank you so much Sala. Very helpful summary.BRMary Uduma 

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  On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 23:09, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro<sala at pasifikanexus.nu> wrote:   Correction: Meant to say "These are my notes"



On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, 9:38 am Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro, <
sala at pasifikanexus.nu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> [*For the sake of MAG members who were not on the call. Caveat, this is a
> very brief summary and I would recommend that you take the time to go
> through the Transcript and chat room logs later. This are my notes of the
> Meeting intended to supplement any Minutes that were taken. This is not an
> exhaustive record.*]
>
> *Summary*
>
>
>    1. The MAG adopted the Tentative Agenda that had been circulated on
>    the mailing list comprising of *Misc Updates by the Secretariat/Chair,
>    incl. WS preparations, Open Forums, Village, New Sessions, Update by the
>    Host Country, Review Thematic (Main) session process and preparations, MAG
>    WG Updates*.
>    2. The Chair gave us a update of the Workshop Preparations, Open
>    Forums which was supplemented by the Secretariat (Anja and Eleonora) giving
>    us feedback on village booth plans that will be shared with the MAG in due
>    course. The High Level Panel whilst not listed on the website have a slot
>    in the Open Forum and will be published eventually. The French Government
>    has picked up on suggestions from the second MAG meeting to  utilise Heads
>    of State that will be present at the Paris Peace Forum to see how we can
>    encourage greater visibility for the IGF.
>    3. The French Government representative, Ms Dalilah gave us a brief
>    update. She is also organising the Paris Peace Forum. She mentioned that
>    there were two other major Tech initiatives in Paris at the same time and
>    one was an "E-Gov" conference (it was unclear whether this was a
>    national initiative or an international one aside from the Paris Peace
>    Forum. Given that the French staff are on vacation, the website and the
>    information relating to venue, logistics would be available to the MAG in
>    early September, 2018. They have started discussions and work on getting
>    visas sorted for IGF attendants and will keep us updated on the progress.
>    4. There was a brief review on the Main Sessions and MAG members who
>    have yet to fill in the Doodle Poll
>    <https://doodle.com/poll/8zdftx42xzsaa2fe> are encouraged to do so as
>    at the time of the meeting on 26 of the 55 MAG members had filled in the
>    Doodle. The same Doodle Poll will allow the Secretariat to assign those MAG
>    members who wish to mentor workshops that require mentoring based on sub
>    themes. The point was also made that not all would want to mentor and that
>    this should be on a voluntary basis only. Preferences can be indicated to
>    the Secretariat should they wish to volunteer to mentor mergers etc.
>    5. Various MAG Working Group Chairs or members in the absence of
>    Chairs gave their updates on the progress of the Working Group. The
>    detailed reports will be available via the Transcripts. Suffice to say the
>    Working Group on Evaluation has not met since the MAG meeting in Geneva,
>    the WG on Outreach gave their updates and said that they had prepared
>    materials in both English and French, the WG on Fundraising gave an update
>    on what they have done so far and whom they intend to target. The WG on
>    Multi Year Strategic Planning gave an update on the number of methodologies
>    and reports on review of the IGF and the different tools that they were
>    reviewing for consideration and that they are almost ready to select the
>    Tool. The point was made to have this opened up to the MAG to input and to
>    weigh in their considerations.
>    6. Given that there are  common threads and elements in the various
>    Working Groups, that at some point, it is useful to consolidate the WG
>    recommendations to bring these to the wider MAG for review/endorsement and
>    implementation. The suggestion was made that this could be scheduled thrice
>    a year. All MAG members are invited to subscribe to the Working Groups on
>    the IGF website.
>    7. The Working Group on Evaluation will be scheduling a virtual
>    meeting to review the process and it is expected that this will be open to
>    ALL MAG and submissions are invited from all MAG members whilst this is
>    still fresh.
>    8. There were also calls to make the IGF increasingly relevant and a
>    separate virtual call would be made  to discuss this.
>    9. As the meeting concluded, Sylvia Cadena (APNIC) and (APrIGF
>    Organising Committee) invited the MAG to remotely participate at the APrIGF
>    and advised that Vint Cerf, Chengetai Masango would be attending. For
>    remote participation, visit http://aprigf.vu/archive/  and to see
>    Agenda visit:  http://aprigf.vu/agenda/
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Sala
>
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