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The first Open Consultations and Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Meeting in the IGF 2015 preparatory process took place on 1-3 December 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland. These consultations also took stock of the IGF 2014 meeting, looking at what worked well and what did not.

The summary report of the meeting is available

here:
http://intgovforum.org/cms/documents/igf-meeting/igf-2015-joao-pessoa/422-december-2014-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting-summary-report/file.

Call for participation in defining the IGF 2015 overarching theme and sub-themes

During the December Open Consultations and MAG meeting, discussions were initiated on defining the IGF 2015 overarching theme and sub-themes. A number of proposals for both the overarching theme

(http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/contributions/open-consultations/2014-december/420-igf-2015-overarching-theme-proposals-submitted-during-the-december-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting/file)

and sub-themes

(http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/documents/contributions/open-consultations/2014-december/421-igf-2015-sub-themes-proposals-submitted-during-the-december-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting/file)

were made during the meeting and discussions now continue via a dedicated mailing list - igf2015_themes@intgovforum.org.

Stakeholders are invited to join this mailing list

(http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igf2015_themes_intgovforum.org)

and to express their support for some of the already proposed themes, to suggest revisions to these themes or to propose new themes. The deadline for such contributions is 31 December 2014.

Call
for stakeholders
to Join Working Groups

Please find below a list of the Working groups and associated mailing lists. At the moment the default is public that anyone can join.

Working Group	Mailing list name	Mailing list sign up page	Lead Facilitators
IGF 2015 themes	igf2015_themes@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igf2015_themes_intgovforum.org	Benedicto Fonseca Filho.
Intercessional activities	intersessional_2015@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/intersessional_2015_intgovforum.org	Mourad Boukadoum,; Virat Bhatia; Avri Doria; Lynn St. Amour.
Main Session guidelines	ms_guidelines_2015@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/ms_guidelines_2015_intgovforum.org	Flavio Wagner; Subi Chaturvedi; Virginia Paque.
Outreach communication	outreach_com_2015@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/outreach_com_2015_intgovforum.org	Dominique Lazanski
Remote participation	rp_2015@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/rp_2015_intgovforum.org	Ginger Paque.
Self-assessment of IGF	selfassesment_2015@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/selfassesment_2015_intgovforum.org	Marilyn Cade.
Workshop evaluation, selection criteria, and mechanisms	ws_selection_2015@intgovforum.org	http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/ws_selection_2015_intgovforum.org

Best Regards,

Ephraim Percy Kenyanito
Website: http://about.me/ekenyanito