[IGFmaglist] Invitation to hold the IGF MAG meeting back-to-back with UNESCO NETconference: CONNECTing the Dots - Options for future Action

[Segun Olugbile]

Dear All,

I will like appreciate invitation to next MAG meetings. I'm a new member of
MAG, putting my in an observation status for now. However, when fixing MAG
meetings, once Africa nation should be considered. Though climatizing
myself with weather conditions, I was almost affected on the first day of
the MAG meetings. Again, Geneva is an expensive city.

When fixing meeting venue, please weather conditions and affordability
should be considered for those MAG members from Africa.


However, I seek to follow majority decision.

Best Regards.

Segun Olugbile



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On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Wachholz, Cedric <c.wachholz at unesco.org>
wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> At this week’s meeting in Geneva, you will decide when and where the next
> Open consultations and MAG meeting will take place. This is to invite the
> IGF MAG members, Chair and IGF Secretariat to decide holding the next Open
> consultations and MAG meeting in UNESCO in the first week of March 2015,
> back to back with UNESCO’s NETconference (see attached leaflet).  The
> good reasons include:
>
> Many MAG members and key Internet Governance players will attend both
> meetings; holding them back to back will
>
> ·         *increase participation* and
>
> ·         *inclusiveness* of both meetings, while
>
> ·         *lowering costs *for the participants. UNESCO intends to invite
> and pay for a number of *LDC* representatives attending the NETconference
> and they could enrich the Open Consultations and MAG meeting deliberations,
> and vice-versa.
>
> ·         *Timing: *the MAG has * always* had *three months* between its
> first review and second preparatory meetings. A few days might need to be
> deducted this time because of the holidays, but on the other hand, a March
> meeting leaves more time for the follow-up through inclusive
> teleconferences before the summer break. And again: it’s three months, as
> always.
>
> ·         UNESCO’s* NETconference *will adopt an *outcome statement,*
> which includes “future options for action” for UNESCO on Internet-related
> issues; if agreed at the conference, we will forward NETconference  outcome
> document to the UNESCO Executive Board, to the WSIS Review process and
> possibly also to UNESCO’s General Conference (Nov. 2015). It would be
> important to have MAG members’ input to this process and outcome.
>
> We hope you will consider favourably our invitation of hosting (under the
> usual terms) the next MAG meeting in March 2015!
>
> Thank you,
> Best regards,
>
> Indrajit Banerjee and Guy Berger
>
> Directors
>
> Communication and Information Sector
>
> UNESCO
>
>
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