General motivation to send nominees to the IGF

[Meryem Marzouki <Meryem.Marzouki@iris.sgdg.org>]

Hi all,

As I previously said, the now 3 HR caucus nominees information will  
also be sent directly to the IGF secretariat on April 18.
This would be accompanied by a general statement of motivations from  
the HR caucus. I'd also like to tell them what we (I, for the moment)  
think of this process:
- fuzziness of the MAG definition
- specification that the MAG members are supposed to participate in  
their individual capacities while the IGF will take a given (unknown)  
number from each stakeholder (this is a major inconsistency for me,  
which would lead to lack of transparency and accountability, and  
dilution of responsibilities. It's actually the main reason why I  
declined any candidacy for participation to the MAG)
- Total opacity w.r.t. to the criteria used to choose the members of  
the MAG
- The fact that it is unacceptable that everything is done in English  
(see www.intgovforum.gov), leaving aside non English speakers
- No information on funding to participate to the MAG (travel etc.),  
and one can deduce there is no funding, again leaving aside those who  
cannot find funding, specially candidates from the South, and small  
organizations in general;

Any comment/other arguments, and help in drafting this statement,  
would be most welcome.

Meryem