[DC] Follow up on DCCG meeting yesterday

[Amali De Silva - Mitchell]

Good to hear Anriette, Wolfgang and Avri are involved with you Wout.

I agree best be involved than be written about!

Amali

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 2:36 a.m. Wout de Natris <
wout.denatris at is3coalition.org> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> In our meeting yesterday I raised a point on the work the MAG Working
> Group IGF Strategy is currently undertaking, all with the continuation and
> future relevance of the IGF in mind. As you will recall, 2025 is the
> renewal year of the IGF mandate. Anriette Esterhuyzen explaned more on the
> background of the WG and that it is open to everyone interested.
>
> As a participant in the WG Strategy, representing DC-IS3C, I have
> regularly pointed to the relevant and important work DCs undertake. This
> has led to DCs not only being explicitely mentioned in the WG Strategy
> actions points but also e.g. in GDC texts.
>
> In our meeting I posed that as DCs we should contribute to the texts that
> will be drafted soon and called for a group of volunteers to draft these
> texts together. To avoid being written about instead of actively
> contributing. So far, Anriette Esterhuyzen, our new MAG liaison! and Avri
> Doria of DC Schools of Internet Governance volunteered. You are invited to
> do so as well.
>
> These are the six points the WG Strategy will start its work on:
>
>  1. Work on a paper reinforcing the mission of the IGF and its long-term
> contribution to the digital cooperation and internet governance space;
>
> 2. Draft a panel submission to WSIS +20 OCP in order to host a discussions
> during the High-Level event in Geneva;
>
> 3.  Host a dialogue webinar with ODET and other UN Agencies on the
> implementation of Para 71 of the GDC (MAP), together with DCs, NRIs and
> other intersessional work;
>
> 4. Host a webinar on the implementation of the NM+10 Sao Paulo
> Multistakeholder Guidelines implementation to the IGF work. Focal groups:
> NRIs, DCs, PNs, and BPFs + MAG
>
> 5. ⁠Suggest to Secretariat and Host country the creation of a
> Governmental Track for member states only.
>
> 6. Draft a high level Multistakeholder statement addressing the UNGA
> Presidency highlighting the importance of the IGF and the need for it to be
> transformed into a permanent effort and fora.
> We can decide what to work on in the coming working days. Three and four
> are obvious, because of the mention of DCs but other could be relevant to
> you as well. Would we like a presence at presentations or be an integral
> part of the parliamentary, governmental or judiciary track, should they be
> there in Lillestrom in June? Underscore our relevance where IGF
> continuation is concerned?
>
> Please send me an email should you wish to join the drafting team.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Wout de Natris - van der Borght
>
> Coordinator
>
> IS3C: Making the Internet more secure and safer
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