[IGFmaglist] ***SPAM*** Inclusive Government participation is more important thant Remote participation

[Olusegun H. Olugbile]

Dear Wisdom

Well spoken!

Equally supporting Ji's position on a more balanced participation with
government stakeholders as well.

Best Regards.

Segun Olugbile

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On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Makane Faye <faymakane at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 4, 2017, at 20:22, Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ji,
> I disagree with you 100% that remote participation shouldnt be a
> priority,, I also disagree with you on the point that UN does not
>  participate in MAG  meeting.
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> Yes is better to go to conferences in person, and yes, remote participants
> will miss out on those things. There is no technological substitute for
> in-person conference attendance, and there likely never will be. We assume
> everyone knows this already. On the other hand, even in a relatively
> narrowly defined academic specialization like prosody, in any given year
> there are already more high-impact, high-excitement conferences and
> workshops taking place around the world than even the most mobile,
> carefree, and generously subsidized among us could ever contemplate
> attending. Travel is wonderfully enriching, and necessary, but it can also
> be expensive, exhausting, and time-consuming. Even where the spirit, body,
> and wallet are willing, we all have responsibilities to our families, home
> institutions, and so forth, that limit the amount of jet-setting we can
> realistically accomplish in a year. IGF meetings in my thinking is meant to
> bring everyone on board, in-person or remotely. What we need to do is to
> increase the awareness of this tools and as well improve on our
> communication and outreach strategy to reach out to the unreach. Everyone i
> think is very important in the internet governance course.
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> Cheers
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> On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 计颢骏 <ji_haojun at mfa.gov.cn> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>>          I am also of the view that remote participation is not a
>> priority. At this stage, even UN members are not fully participating in the
>> work of MAG, I doubt the value of encouraging more remote participation in
>> our work by people from other sectors.Of course,it would be great to have
>> more input from other sectors,but at the end of the day, it would be up to
>> the governments to take actions and take up the financial burdens. We all
>> know that It is easier to talk than to take actions. Multi-stakeholder
>> participation is important, but I have an impression that  governments are
>> being sidelined as minority in MAG. Therefore, I would like to suggest that
>> we encourage more participation by permanent missions in Geneva,which would
>> have more added values. Would it be great that we have at least one MAG
>> member for each UN member state? I also feel that it would be
>> appropriate for country like China and India have more MAG members befits
>> their status as major internet country especially in economic sense.
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>>          Best regards,
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>>          JI Haojun
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