Recommendation and Suggestion on IGF Expert Group Meeting 2022
1. IGF is a Multistakeholder group or concept with bottoms up approach. Why is it that every
time when it comes to topics like representation, inclusion and diversity the lower economic
region countries are missed out. I see the same people in the internet community with the
same issue and same agenda. IGF has to grow better than the concept of gender in the
inclusion, New and fresh leaders in the concept of representation and diversity.
I highly recommend to the IGF secretariat to have better inclusive and collaborative approach
with new and fresh leaders from the community.
2. IGF has a bigger hindrance of
• Communication barriers
• Lack of core values
• Language barriers
• Many more
At regional level generally what happens is the bigger nation eats up the smaller nation issues.
The major focus goes to the good communication skills and a lot of the times proposal and
discussion happens on the basis of merit of evaluation not on seriousness of the issue.
Asia is dominated by the few developed nation where the focus goes to those nation whose
representative have good English and china is excluded out of it. There is a greater part of the
politics that goes hand to hand with this.
The core issue of the multi-stakeholder challenges at grassroots level remains same and
untouched. At national level a lot of the times NGOs and INGOs manifests their problems and
challenges exploiting the opportunity where the grassroots level issues and problems remains
untouched.
3. The most important role of MAG or leadership panel is to give continuation of what our MAG
chair Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen achieved. The MAG process needs to be fluid and open,
transparent and more collaborative with the community and people.
Communication has been a major challenges in the community
• From collaborating with the leaders to getting feedback from the community, Ambassadors,
leaders, fellows and new leader should also be given responsibility and opportunity to grow
• A collaborative inter communication strategy should be developed with all (I star
organization ) for better collaboration
• Better engagement strategy is also needed
4. The NRI is a loose network of national and regional level initiatives which has to be driven in a
more progressive way.
• There has to better opportunity of learning, funding and collaboration. The most important
things for any national, regional, sub-regional and youth initiative has to be transparent,
accountable and open to all. A lot of the times these initiatives is run by selective group and
people with vested interest. These initiative have to be monitored and most importantly cross
checked.

5. IGF funding in such initiative has to be open and accountable and needs to have a process to
verify its social existence.
Values
1. Openness
2. Accountable
3. Transparent
6. A better engagement strategy has to be developed at leadership, communication and
operation level. The efficiency of the event cannot be evaluated with the number of people
who have participated but how many communities have been reached and what are take their
away from the forum.
Regarding the submission of the proposals a relative strategy have to developed promoting
generic issues and problems of the region. As a lot of the times evaluation is based on merit
basis where stereotype representation is done on the basis of gender, population, people and
region....
Just because a person is not able to communicate doesn't mean he or she is not part of the
multi-stakeholder engagement. It is our responsibility to bring such voice to the table as we
are the privilege ones to lead the community.
7. The role and responsibilities of a MAG members is immense as they are the representation of
the different stakeholders and communities. Even the MAG member selection process needs
to be further made open and transparent. The current process of selection is hugely politicized
and a group of people have been controlling the process, this needs to be made scientific and
processed so that better and new group of people with better voice can join and further have
efficiency and effectiveness in the MAG engagement process.
8. Funding of IGF activities or regional activities have to be
1. Open Any funding activities has to be open and transparent
2. Transparent Any funding activities has to be transparent and open
3. Accountable Local Level Audit at countries law must be adopted
9. At grassroots level there is a greater need of core values development in terms of Internet and
need to create better awareness about openness, transparency and accountability.
The secretariat had developed a toolkit ages back which further needs to be reviewed and
updated with better engagement tools and techniques. Collaborative initiative and efforts are
need in creating better engagement and awareness tools.