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

[Ucha Seturi]

Dear Anriette,

I want to express my appreciation  for  the last two years and for your
effort for the very difficult   and challengeable  remote and hybrid IGF's
.  For me personally it was a important and special experience. Thank you
for this and I want to wish success and fruitful continuing of IG
activities from the different angle!

And I wish to you and to the other colleagues a healthy and brilliant 2022.

Best regards,
Ucha Seturi

უჩა სეთური


Chair, "*Telecom Operator's Association of Georgia"*

*გამგეობის თავმჯდომარე "საქართველოს** სატელეკომუნიკაციო ოპერატორების
ასოციაცია"*

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*Address:*            3, Ak. Khorava Street, Tbilisi, 0179, Georgia.

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 2:05 PM Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
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
>
> --
> Anriette Esterhuysen - anriette at apc.org//anriette at gmail.com
> Senior advisor global and regional internet governance
> Association for Progressive Communicationswww.apc.org // afrisig.org
>
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