[IGFmaglist] Thank you, good bye, welcome and happy 2022!

[Carlos Afonso]

Thank you, Anriette, for your experient and thoughtful guidance. And thanks to Paul for his clear and wise words.

I will try to follow the IGF process and continue to participate in the Policy Network on Meaningful Access.

I wish you all a much better 2022!

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 05/01/2022 07:04, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> Welcome to a new year - the 17th for the IGF. I wish you all good year
> personally and professionally. A special welcome to the new MAG members
> and the new MAG chair, Paul Mitchell. Enjoy the ride ahead which can be
> challenging, but it is also a privilege and is a rewarding experience.
> 
> *To the 2021 MAG*, thank you for your hard work during a challenging
> year. Organising a hybrid IGF without the benefit of an initial face to
> face meeting early in the year to get to know one another was difficult.
> The MAG also had to respond to the ongoing evolution of the IGF
> ecosystem and calls for the IGF to adapt and strengthen and be more
> focused and issue driven. I believe that you managed to actually do
> this, and do it well. I want to thank the MAG collectively and also
> thank those individual MAG members who stepped forward, showing
> leadership and taking initiative. It made all the difference and enabled
> others to contribute more effectively.
> 
> *To MAG 2021 working groups and their co-chairs *(WG-workshop process,
> WG-hybrid, WG-strategy and WG-outreach and communications) your work was
> excellent and also served to draw in members of the broader IGF community.
> 
> *To the 2021 hosts*, thank you for your consistent support and your
> generous and professional hosting of a successful hybrid event. *To all
> past host countries *who continue to participate actively, your presence
> and support is invaluable. I know not all past hosts send
> representatives to the MAG. It takes time and capacity and this can be
> in short supply. But I encourage all past host countries to try and
> maintain a strong connection with the MAG and with the incoming
> Leadership Panel.
> 
> *To past MAG members*, thank you so much for your contribution. The work
> of the MAG is not easy. It involves "learning from doing". That is why
> the support of past-MAG members is so helpful. Past MAG members also
> contribute to IGF intersessional work such as the coordination and
> support of Dynamic Coalition. All of this helps with cohesion and
> continuity.
> 
> *To current and new MAG members*, it is because I believe that one
> learns from doing, that I want to urge those MAG members who were not
> very active last year, and incoming MAG members, to step forward this
> year and be more active. Ask questions, ask for help; ask for clarity;
> be impatient if you don't get it and ask again. A key take away that I
> hope the Secretariat and the incoming chair will keep in mind is that
> MAG members have asked for more guidelines on what is involved in being
> a MAG members. More information will help and I am ready to contribute
> to continue some of the material we started working on while during my
> term as chair. However, guidelines that need to be read and understood
> can never really substitute for plunging in and doing the work, and
> building confidence and insight in the process.
> 
> *To colleagues in the UN*, it has been a pleasure to work with you. The
> support of Under Secretary-General Liu Zhenmin, and other colleagues in
> UN DESA (in particular Juwang Zhu, Wai Min Kwok and Deniz Susar, is
> vital to the IGF and represents the link between the bottom-up community
> driven aspects of the IGF and the UN member-state driven processes from
> which the IGF emerged.  Huge thank you to Ms Maria Francesca Spatolisano
> of the Office of the SG's Envoy on Technology and team members Jason
> Munyan and Yu Ping Chan for active engagement in IGF2021 and in MAG
> working groups.
> 
> *To Intergovernmental Organisations* who participate in the MAG and MAG
> working groups, thank you for doing so and please continue. Your
> involvement connects the IGF in a continuous way to precisely those
> decision-making processes and institutions that the IGF aims to enrich.
> 
> *To other observers* and active participants from civil society, youth
> IGFs, NRIs, the technical community, governments, business, the academic
> community - thank you for following the work of the MAG and for
> participating actively in calls and meetings. Your inputs adds value to
> the work of the MAG.
> 
> *To past MAG chairs* thank you for your support, and your ongoing
> participation and voluntary contributions.
> 
> *To those who provide financial support *to the IGF, past, present and
> future - thank you and please continue. The IGF is even more relevant
> now than it was in 2006.
> 
> *To the Secretariat* (including the consultants) thank you for the hard
> work and the patience and support you gave me as chair, and your
> adeptness at navigating the complex IGF environment.
> 
> Warm regards to all
> 
> Anriette Esterhuysen - outgoing MAG chair
> 
> 3 January 2022
> 
> 
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Carlos A. Afonso
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