[IGFmaglist] [Intersessional_2015] COMMENTS INVITED FOR PREPARING INTERSESSIONAL WORK PLAN

[William Drake]

Hi

Thanks Virat for moving this along.

With the next OC/MAG meeting two months away and the Brazil meeting 11 months away, it’s not clear why we need to rush quite this fast at a time that for many people is a busy holiday season, which means you we will not get the broad-based awareness, engagement and buy-in one would want.   Certainly in the case of the civil society networks that have been most directly involved in IGF and advocating intersessional work since, well, the beginning, I have so far seen zero discussion of the matter.  I don’t know if other stakeholder groups are further down the track in their thinking, but we need to get everyone who wants to be on board the train and in synch.  So from the peanut gallery,  I would suggest recalibrating this schedule backwards by two weeks, and for MAG members to reach out to their respective communities to encourage engagement before one gets into finalizing texts and specifying tasks and deadlines.

Best

Bill


> On Dec 16, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Bhatia, Virat <virat.bhatia at intl.att.com> wrote:
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> Sl. No.
> Proposed Activity
> Timeline
> 1.       
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> Finalizing text for posting on the IGF website for wider public consultation, specifying areas in which comments by volunteers on the dedicated list are invited for preparing draft plan (4 days)
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> Friday, December 19, 2014
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> 2.       
> Reaching out to organizers of regional and local IGFs and requesting their input and consideration in building elements of the global IGF intercessional work into the planning of their own events. (4 days)
> Friday, December 19, 2014
> 3.       
> Reaching out to the MAG coordinators of the Best Practices and to the Lead Experts of the 2014 Best Practices sessions requesting their feedback and suggestions on IGF intercessional work going forward. (4 days)
> Friday, December 19, 2014
> 4.       
> Placing open call for public comments on the IGF website for developing the intercessional work plan 
> Monday, December 22, 2014
> 5.       
> Deadline for submitting inputs towards preparation of the intersessional work plan (19 days) 
> Friday, January 9, 2015
> 6.       
> Preparation of draft plan  and submission to MAG secretariat / MAG  by volunteers, based on public consultation (10 days) 
> Monday, January 19, 2015
> 7.       
> Deadline to release final plan in the public domain, (post  any changes /  fine tuning), for implementation during 2015 (6 days) 
> Monday, January 26, 2015
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> Your comments invited (latest by Friday, December 19, 2014)
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> 1.      On whether the above steps and timelines towards the preparation of draft plan / modalities are in order?
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> 2.      Subjects and issues (Example: intersessional work objectives, criteria, procedures for online consultation, secretariat, etc.), on which public consultation should be held, with a view to prepare the plan / modalities for intersessional work. (Your comments will guide the text for the public announcement, related to inviting wider IG community inputs, for the development of the intersessional work plan, to be placed on the IGF website, on Monday, December 22, 2014).  
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> 3.      The need for a well-resourced IGF secretariat to lead procedural aspects of intersessional work.
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> 4.      Any other comments.  
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> Sincerely,
> 
> Virat Bhatia 
> Coordinator - Working Group on Intersessional Activity
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