Room 7

>> Good afternoon, everybody.  Hi.  We are very close to start this
assembly of the IGF supporting. Our bilaws don't require any specific core
room for the chair assembly.  So we will start with the members that are in
the room.  But we will wait for 2 or 3 minutes unless some other committee
members are arriving.  So for a while, we will publish the agenda for the
meeting.  We will start very soon. Okay, everybody.  We are starting.  So
please, can you -- can you make silence, please.  Thank you. Thank you very
much. Okay.  Let me introduce myself.  I'm Raul ACHIBERRIA.  I work for the
international society. We were waiting for you, by the way.  I'm the chair
of the executive committee of the IGFSA.  Here around the table we have
several executive committee members.  Edmond Chang here.  You can raise
your hand?  Avri Doria.  Okay.  So thank you very much for attending this
meeting.  The purpose of the meeting is to review what has been done by the
foundation in the last year since the last IGF.  It was when we held the
last general assembly and to elect the members of the executive committee.
We will talk more about that during the meeting.  We published an agenda
for this meeting, but we have real organized the agenda now because there
was no order of the points that we had proposed before.  So now we have the
report of the 2016 activities before electing the new executive committee.
That's what makes much more sense.  So the agenda is -- in fact, we have a
.0 in the agenda of the adoption of the agenda itself.  So I ask you to
review the agenda. I will read the points and if there is any comment, I
will appreciate.  I forget -- I forgot to mention something very important
that here on my left is Markus Cammer, very well known person.  Doesn't
need too much presentation.  He has acted the last two years as the
secretary of the IGFSA.  And kept Schumann as part of the agreement we have
with the international society is providing the services of supporting this
secretary of the association. Currently, the executive committee has to
approve all the new members and it doesn't make too much sense.  We are
proposing that just with the registering as a member and pay the membership
fees will be enough to be accepted as a member, but we will go through the
proposal later in the meeting. .4 is the chair of the activity of the
committee. This is the requirement because IGFSA is incorporated under
Swiss law in Geneva.  There is legal requirement in every one.  What means,
Markus can explain later when we get to that point, but it means in general
terms that the association is not only -- it takes off the responsibility
from the executive committee members of what has been done in the past
year.  .5 will be the election of the members of the executive committee.
We already have a list of people that have put forward the names for the
elections as candidates.  We will speak about making the election when we
get to the point.  Point number 6 is the annual approval budget for next
year.  It is a point recommendation by the executive committee.  And
finally, we have any other business. So any other recommendation for the
agenda?  Any change?  Marilyn?  Can you speak closer to the mic? You cannot
move it?

>> (speaking)

>> I just have one clarification under AOB. Would it be helpful are it me
to mention a topic I would like to raise under AOB?

>> Raul:  AOB is for any other business.  You can commission whatever you
want.

>> Marilyn:  So I don't need to tell you now?

>> Raul:  No.  Okay.  So any other comment on the agenda, proposals?  No?
Okay.  So we can proceed with .1 of the agenda that is approval of the
record of the previous channel assembly.  As usual, I will rely on the
secretary Mr. Markus cammer for the details of this.

>> Markus:  Thank you, Raul.  There is nothing to add.  We sent the summary
record of last year's general assembly which has been approved by the
executive committee, but it is up to the general assembly to provide the
general record and have not received any comments.  I presume that the
membership is okay with summary record of last year's general assembly.

>> Raul:  Okay.  Any question?  It happened many -- much time ago.  So I
don't think we have too much for discussion.  If there is no other question
or comment, we will proceed to approve.  All the members in the room who
are in favor of approving the records of the last general assembly, raise
your hand, please.  Okay.  Anybody against approving the records of the
last general assembly?  Thank you very much.  Attentions.  Okay.  So it's
been approved.  Thank you very much. So we move to .2 of the agenda that is
the presentation of the approval of the report of activities.  Financial
statements.  So 2016.  You have this report in the list if you are
subscribing to the IGFSA list.  But I will go through it very quickly
through the report.  In 2016, the executive committee members of the IGFSA
have been Ita battia from AT&T, Marilyn Kai from MK, LLC, edmond Chang from
Dot Asia.  I hope that I'm pronouncing it well. Thank you.  The executive
committee held six meetings over the course of the year.  All physical
meetings had remote participation available for the remote participants.
And beside that, we have had also some other informal meetings that some of
the members are taking advantage of some of us being together in different
meetings.  And the executive committee is supported by a secretariat
responsibility for day to day activities, preparing for meetings and other
regular office requirements. Marcus COOMER is the secretary.  We have two
categories of members that agree on the channel assembly.  Membership and
individual memberships that pay $25 per year.  And organizational members
and annual membership of $100.  In 2016, 13 new individual member and two
organizational members showing the association bringing up the total to 128
active members and 116 organizational members respectively.  They come from
50 nations representation all the groups.  The executive meeting is the
least of the members that is organizational and individual members that
join the association in 2016.  In terms of embracing, the executive
committee consists embracing a high priority.  This is why we have been
negated.  And since the inception of the foundation, we have raised almost
$500,000 to be more precise, $492,677.32.  While they're not the primary
source of founding to fulfill the IGFSA mission, $654.14 were received as a
membership dues and individual donations.  I will add here at this point to
please remember if you want to renew your membership and you have not done
it yet, please take advantage of in this meting for doing that.  And in
order to facilitate it, we accept also payments in cash with Kyle that is
here to my right.  The breakdown of the contribution received as of 21st
November, 2016 are an amount in dollars $86,000 advanced year market for
UNIGF transferred from 2015.  And this is because you remembered that we
make the contribution to the U.N. IBM trust fund and I will speak a little
bit more about that in a few seconds.  So we have all 39 -- oh, you see the
numbers there.  Almost $40,000 beginning in January 2016.  The 654 that I
already mentioned, 50,000 were contributed by international site.  $57 by
ICANN.  $25,000 by ISITA.  5,000 from Fair Century folks and 25,000 from
Amazon.  The total incomes totalizing the end of this year was 21st of
November is $198,035.63.  I think that's how you pronounce that well.  But
is it is well worth taking the notes.  Thank you. The allocation of funds,
the executive committee in consultation with the membership adjusted the
formula for allocation of funds having agreed on the 2015 general assembly.
Let me tell you why we did that.  If you remember, for some reason and it
is explained in the .1 in the table that in January UNin dessa, they were
not in eye position to receive money from us.  They required legal advice
to the legal team of U.N.  It took a long time.  We have a very positive
change with the UN.  We clarified situations.  Finally at the end of this
year in able, we signed a new agreement that clarified all the problems.
Basically the main concern of UN was that we would not be raising funds on
behalf of UN. Clearly that's not our intention.  And it was clarified in
this memorandum of understanding between the two organizations and now
everything is very clear.  But so due to the fact that we were not making
the contribution to UN and we had a lot of requirements from national and
original IGFs, it didn't make sense to the executive committee to keep that
huge amount of money hold while we were having requests for other
activities.  And so we proposed to change that to the members and basically
on the field to receive from the members that we just made this slight
modification and we decided to take 40% from the funds for contributing to
the UN's IGFSA fund and supporting analyze.  Remaining percent was kept and
had been decided before.  7% for our region activities and 8% for the
contentious fund.  So the situation as 28 of November, 2016 is the
following according to the 40% that we allocated we have.  The $89,000 or
remaining for being transferred to UN in the IGS trust fund, 45% is the
funds that are allocated in 2016 are $89,216.03.  We still have some funds
remaining.  That's the $21,116.03.  You also see the funds from outreach
activities IGFSA contingency is due to emphasize in the IGFSA contingency
because there was a correction with regard to the first version of this
report and the right amount of funds that we have at this moment on the
contingency fund is $41,531.36.  The original -- we had the original IGF
initiatives we have supported -- I'm going very fast her --  but we have
eight original IGFRCC that are the A46 an IGF, Asia and Pacific, original
IGFs, central Asia IGF, and city and west Africa and IGF.  18 total.  We
provided $3500 to each of them.  We also approved and implemented the
support to 29 national IGFs and at least I will not read all the list.
They were her --  it was already saving the list a couple of corrections
and Nigeria is included.  It hasn't been included in the first version of
the report.  There was a mistake with Bolivia that we had not provided
funds to Bolivia and IGF.  We included now Uganda. Uganda has the list of
countries that we had supported in the brochure and the version in the
brochure hasn't always been right.  Our mistake when we passed the
information to the report.  But the numbers okay.  It's always been okay.
And the total amount of money that we have spent supporting national and
original IGF is $68,500.  The support for original and national IGFs
included travel funding for 2016 IGF meeting for forecourt nadors to
support sanctions for the IGFF secretariat.  They provided feltoships for
the bine -- fellowships for the combined abilities.  But the funding came
specifically for a donor who wished to remain anonymous and was year
marketed specifically for this purpose of funding from the Dynamic
Coalition accessibility and disability.  I think this is something new for
the IGFSA that we have not done before that's beside allocating funds.  In
this case, what we did was just to make available our possibilities for
managing the money thats donated to the organization within a specific
purpose.  I think that we can do more of that in the future if there are
new possibilities for doing that. Outreach and communication, the IGFSA
secretariat and community has national and original IGF.  It is high
events, summit and committees.  IGFSA held information luncheon during May.
40 people participated.  Funds were used and are the promotional materials
were distributed in all these events.  IGFSA contingency the funds
allocated under this category covered the daily operation of the IGFSA such
as banking fees and other costs associated with running the IGFSA
secretariat. While this is the formality, we have not spent money from the
IGFSA contingency because those are things covered with the support of the
Internet society. So we have 100% of the contingency fund.  What we find
very useful.  This year under the leadership of Avri Doria, we had
negotiations for renewing the corporation agreement.  Can you mention
something?

>> Avri Doria.  Avery speaking.  We had administrative costs and
administrative procedures and we have a contract with them that covers a
certain number of areas.  So this has been basically negotiated each year.
This year when we negotiated it, we also negotiated that it seemed like it
was time that we start thinking about the IGF support organization starting
to support itself in these administrative activities as opposed to
continuing to rely on ISOC for that.  So what we have done, one of the
changes in the contract this year in the MOU this year is that we will have
a check point at halfway through the year to then start planning how we
would evolve and not need that the following year though it is not
necessarily agreed that we won't have the support next year.  But that is
the plan at the moment that we spend this year trying to become more
independent in that respect as much as we've appreciated the help.  It gets
to a point where we need to find the our own self-sufficiency for that. In
terms of the MOU itself, it's basically the same as previous years though
we did drop a couple of the items that we hadn't been using such as
liability insurance costs and the filing costs for a corporation because
obviously that's been done.  So I think that about covers it.  It's very
much the same agreement, but we are looking at trying to find a way to no
longer need that particular kind of administrative support from ISOC,
though it has been greatly appreciated.

>> Raul:  Thank you very much, AVRI.  I think it is very important and
those $4,000 will be very useful in having to transition IGF secretariat
for 2018.  So on this fund, we still grow with the contributions of 2017.
There are no plans.  We will discuss it later.  But there are no plans yet
to allocate money from this fund for the 2017 operations.  Okay.  I think
that this is all from my side with regard to the presentation of the report
of activities and numbers from 2016. Now the floor is open for questions,
comments, complaints.  Please don't insult, at least publicly. You can do
it by Twitter.  Okay.  So the floor is open.  Nobody wants to speak?  Okay.
Okay.  That's very good. So if there are no comments or questions, I will
put the proposal forward for approving the report. What's the formality?  I
should say something?  So I will put for your consideration approval of the
report and financial statements of 2016.  So those members in the room of
favor of approving it, please raise your hand.  Okay.  So members against
approving the financial statements and report, please raise your hand.
Nobody?  And abtensions. Thank you very much for approving. [APPLAUSE] So
coming back to the agenda is .3 the modification of the articles of
association.  I already explained briefly.  I think that's Marcus the
provide the more formal explanation.

>> Marcus:  Thank you, Raul.  The original articles of association provided
for the executive committee members approving new members.  Let us prove
the other procedures and some what awkward and sometimes members had
already paid their membership dues, but still had to approve to become new
members.  So we propose now making membership automatic upon payment of the
membership dues and at the same time, we ask the new members to take a box
that says that they approve and hear the objectives of the association that
is mainly promote and support the IGF open stakeholder policy dialogue. And
I checked with our lawyers and the language that we propose is up there on
the screen that we replacing the old language which made it dependent on
the approval of the executive committee saying that it's automatic upon
payment of membership fees. And at the same time, we propose deleting that
non-payment of membership fees with me to lapse of membership because we
found especially in developing countries, it's not always that easy to pay
via PayPal whereas it is much easier to pay in cash at the annual assembly.
So we don't want to make that restraint.  We are here to recruit new
members.  We don't want to lose members and such and we assume that they
will pay whenever they have the opportunity.  So it's not as tight as it
was before. As I said, I checked with our lawyers and the IGFSA
incorporated in Switzerland and I just received confirmation that post
amendment would be in accordance with Swiss law.  So I suggest then putting
that up to approval for our membership that we approve the new proposed
language and change the bilaws accordingly.

>> Raul:  Okay.  You?  You?

>> Hi.  My name is Omar.  I'm President of Technician which is a member of
IGFSA, an organizational member.  My question was:  How was the executive
committee approving members, the criteria, what did that include?  Was it
only the membership dues or was there anything else you were looking into
and then approving based on that?

>> Raul:  So far, we have approval by majority, but in the executive
committee, but to be Frank, all approvals were by unity.  We didn't reject
any member.  But since we have approval for all the requests, we're
fulfilling our responsibility and we take a look at the list of people in
order to see if there was something that called our attention, but it never
happened.

>> Do you suggest if there are developing countries, the fee structure, I
guess, is the same in developing countries.  If there is some sort of thing
or two to bring in some more members from the developing countries
especially from the organizational members and if possible for the
individual members, some discounts or something for the structure, very
specifically for the organizational members, that would be great.  And for
the dues, it's difficult.  You're right to make wire transfers and all
people is not working in some developing countries including Afghanistan.
But still for IGFSA's sustain act, it will be important to have to dues
members pay their dues.  I think for that if we can give them some time
like three months after the expiration, that would be good.  And after that
if they don't pay or you don't receive it, then that would lead to a
cancellation.

>> Raul:  Thank you.  Please?

>> Thank you.  I would just like to address the proposition.  I note that
the material distinction here is that there's a shift in how people joined
IGFSA in terms of one you just pay your subs and automatically you become a
member of the IGFSA as opposed to discretion with the executive committee.
So that's a material distinction.  There are all kinds of rationale that
can be behind it, but it would look as if -- it would seem to be some form
of control.  Having said that, in terms of -- in terms of the concerns that
have been raised in relation to members from countries that may not
necessarily have access to some of the prominent or prevailing online
payment methods, whatever these may be, I would suggest that the
secretariat make a list of the countries that might have the challenges and
potentially look at how this could be met one.  I think you have already
mentioned it.  Secondly, I would say that the membership fees are already
affordable.  They're not exorbitantantly high.  U.S. dollars and $25 U.S.
for an individual member is affordable on any scale of things.  And yes.
In terms of discretionary censorship -- not censorship, but it would seem
to me that the power would rest on the executive committee to choose
whether or not they would accept somebody as a member.  If that the case, I
would suggest that alternatively what could potentially discussed would be
some sort of guidelines limiting some of those consensus and some of those
fees.  The other thing I wanted to mention and perhaps I will bring that up
later.

>> (inaudible)

>> Raul:  Like I said, speak in the mic.

>> As you know, we want to bring new people, new members and August
materials in English.  It is so hard for some people in countries to learn
on this material.  This is my idea to translate in English, in French or
Arabic to respect the diversity of languages.  Thank you so much.

>> Raul:  Thank you.  Marcos -- Marilyn, would you like?  Marilyn first.

>> Marilyn:  Marilyn Kate speaking.  I'm going to respond from an
experience that aye had in setting up an NGO and being on the board.  And
also a couple of other organizations where their bilaws guide membership
criteria and numerous trade associations. I think one of the things about
our somebodyship application is not that is not really a membership
application.  It is your name in e-mail.  One thing we can think about is
including enough information that you are -- we can tell you're not a
robot, so to speak.  And have the definition that says, you know, here are
the entities that are on the membership that are eligible.  And then it's
really kind of quick check that the secretariat is able to do all the boxes
are checked, the information is filled out, and we have not as Raul said,
we have not -- we just tried to make sure that we knew it was a human being
apply or it was a real organization.  We were not in any way blocking
anyone joining, but perhaps a slightly more defined membership form, which
had a little more information which would not be made public would meet the
suggestion you were making about guidelines. Something like that.

>> Raul:  Mike.

>> My name is Michael UGIA.  I for one support the amendment.  I think it
makes a lot of sense.  I also wanted to add two points.  The first is it
would be really good especially to aliveiate the second point or the point
that's being removed to alleviate any kind of members with that.  I suggest
we have an e-mail reminder that our membership dues have expired or our
yearly subscription has expired. Sorry if this falls on you, Kyle or if
this falls on the executive committee.  I know when I signed up in general,
but I don't know what day it was necessarily approved and when I need to
renew my subscription.  The second is speaking of recruitment period, I was
actually recruited by Marcus at one of the NRI events and I think
especially if these NRIs are being funded by the IGFSA, it's a great
opportunity to also recruit at the event.  I see it almost as kind of
catalizing on itself because yes. The dues are going to help the NRIs and
we are putting that money back into the system so they can help others as
well around the world.  I definitely support this proposal and I hope it
continues to expand.

>> Raul:  We are doing that.  We send the reminders.  So maybe we didn't
send to you, but we have to check.  You will pay double. [Laughter] I have
Edmond and you.  I want to close the list of speakers on this point.  So
anybody else is interested in speaking about this point?  We have two
speakers.  Marcus will make some comments for trying to address some of the
things.  Please.

>> Edmond here.  Just a quick response.  I want to make sure that to
clarify, we are actual -- the amendments are taking away from the executive
committee, the need is to actually control or vet these new members.  I
think is that is important and I think the suggestion from Mark -- Michael.
Sorry. It is very good.  Again, I think making it more open.  This is the
idea of the amendment and not trying to create more control from the
executive committee.  I think -- and the reason for that is in the last
couple years, we've realize -Z that we never kick anybody out and there's
no need for that additional administrative process.  Rather than that, we
want to open up the process of that more members can join more quickly and
we won't need to know when the renewal time would be when you become a
member.

>> Thank you, chair.  As somebody who draws legislation contract
agreements, the way the people worded it, it means the executive committee
has the discretion here.  "to become a member must be addressed to address
the executive committee.  They admit new members.  The original is they
admitted upon payment of membership due.  Oh, my apologies. I got it wrong.
Blame it on jet lag.  Thank you, edmond.  And the of the thing I wanted to
point at is I wanted to thank Marilyn for the clarification in terms of
eligibility criteria distinguishing robots from actual persons.  I haven't
read the bilaws.  I just wanted to ask whether there was some eligibility
criteria woven into the bilaws or would this potentially come in through
the guidelines? Thank you, chair.  And that's it for me.

>> You shouldn't read too much into all this.  It is essentially an attempt
to simplify membership. What we have found is most members pay their
membership dues in cash at the annual meeting or at one of NRIs.  I was
attending one of these meetings and it's proof that the people are
interested in the IGF and the objectives of our association.  To be formal,
we make that -- you have to take the box that you adhere in the purpose of
the association according to the bilaws to promote and support to global
IGF as well as the national and international bilaws.  By being here, you
show up and you prove that in person you support this.  It is really a
simplification of the procedure and we refrain from making membership
expiring if you don't pay your membership dues.  Pay it the next time and
again, as to -- we had the lengthy discussion in the beginning what would
be the appropriate fees and what we said then is $25 sounds reasonable.
Also for someone from a developing country.  If you're able to attend the
annual meeting, maybe it's a few drinks less to pay for the membership
team, but it is not unsurmountable. [Laughter] To cut a long story short, I
hope you can approve this and move on.  Thank you.

>> Raul:  One more thing.  I think that's I will recommend to executive
committee on, once they form it, to consider your proposal.  I think that
we can not approve that idea in this general assembly because we will have
needed to have the proposal in advance.  So I think as the executive
committee, I will recommend to the executive committee to consider your
idea of making this for some kind of countries and also our proposal about
study specific cases of countries that are facing barriers for Spain or
lines and membership fees. Okay.  Closing this.  I will put this for your
consideration.  So those in favor -- I don't think we need to read it, but
those that are in favor to the modification of having proposal in place,
raise your hand.  Anybody against?  Against?  We are keeping a good record
of approval by anonymity.  Any extensions?  Thank you very much.  So we can
proceed to the next point of the agenda. This is a strange thing we have to
do according to Swiss laws.  That's our Swiss representative will explain
what this is about.  Expert in Swiss.

>> It may be a translation issue.  This charge is fairly literal
translation from what is in 47 (foreign language) and that is basically
that the general assembly gives the green light to the executive committee
having fulfilled its function in due form and proper form and that there's
no issue remaining that has not been resolved.  So it is essentially
approving of the activities and making sure there's no hanging issue
between the general assembly and the executive committee.

>> Raul:  Any question?  If it is crystal clear for everybody.  Okay.  So
please -- all of you in favor?  Please.  Anybody against?  Good.  Perfect.
So now we are coming to an interesting point. The election of the members
of the executive committee.  Let me explain what the situation is. When the
association was formed, we elected nine people for forming the executive
committee.  And so the executive committee discussed how to rotate the
members and we decided that three people would have a first term of one
year, three of two years and other three years.  We had a renovation,
partial renovation of a few members that weren't reelected and they were
Marilyn.  Who else is in the report? It is Edmond and Marilyn Kate.  And
they were reelected.  And this year the three members that agreed at that
moment to leave the seats in the executive committee after the second year
Avri Doria, sherry Miller and myself.  We have another vacant because
Pattia from AT&T, he resigned from the executive committee to jock sponges
from his company.  He said he could not fulfill the responsibilities of the
executive committee.  So we have four seats open in the executive
committee. From those, Cheryl, AVRI and myself has expressed her intention
to run for reelection.  We opened a call for candidates for this election
for filling the four seats.  So far, we have -- okay.  We have 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7.  The administrative plan developing (foreign language) AVRI
dorria, Mark Well from Canada, Markus KOOMER has the executive committee as
IGF secretariat.  You no he's running for member of the executive
committee.  Karen McCabe from I triple E USA.  Eduardo san toyio. I'm sorry
we miss spelled your name in the ballon ballot, but you can recognize your
name there. [Laughter] We will make last call in case anybody else wants to
put their name forward for the election.  I will give 5 seconds for anybody
who wants to raise their hand for saying me.  1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  What we will
do is the following.  I will give you the opportunity to each of you --
first of all, who of the anidates in the room, can you raise your hand?  4?

>> Mark is there.

>> Raul:  Mark is remotely.  I have five candidates.  I will give you the
opportunity to speak no more than one minute, please.  We have other two
candidates that are not in the room, but if somebody knows to speak in
their favor introducing them, you are welcome.  So after that, we have
those beautiful ballots that we have prepared.  Don't pay attention to the
three places. It was just in case somebody else wanted to run election.
But it is not the case.  And so we will distribute the ballots to the
members.  I think that we have to trust in the people.  We have to trust
you who are the members and who are not.  And each of you will have the
possibility to mark up to four names.  Okay.  We have the names.  So you
cannot vote if you are not members.  We will catch you. [Laughter]

>> (low voice)

>> Raul:  Yes.  You will mark your names and you will bring your ballots
here.

>> Ask them to come here to get the ballot.

>> Raul:  The opposite.  You have to come here to get the ballot.  So you
have approximately 45 seconds for thinking and voting.  And so Kyle and
myself will be responsible of counting.  Maybe if somebody else that is not
running the election and wants to volunteer.  We have a third member of the
election committee.  Because now we are committee. We are three. [Laughter]
So please those of you that are members and are interested -- oh, sorry.
First of all, the speeches.  So, please we can start with you.

>> My name is Marcus COOMER.  I am running this time to be a member of the
executive committee.  My main note vacation is actually to facilitate the
decision making as I was on all the calls, but my vote didn't count to
reach a quorum.  It should make it easier to reach a quorum.  Was I in the
time? Okay.  Thanks.

>> Raul:  Thank you very much.  AVRI?

>> Avri Doria:  I had wavered on whether I was going to stand again or not.
The reason I decided to is one, I do want to see this transition through in
terms of becoming more independent from the Internet society.  And the
second I really regretd that we never got a program going for actually
ongoing contributions from small donors.  It was something I wanted to work
on, something I amd to see done and I still want to see it done.  So I want
to try again.

>> Raul:  Who is in the room?  Eduardo?

>> Eduardo:  Thank you.  Thank you.  My name is Eduardo Santoyio.  I come
from Colombia.  Many people don't know where is Colombia.  I'm currently
the manager for the ministry and the organization of Latin American and
Caribbeans.  I want participating in local in real level in the IGF
discussions for almost five years.  We are very active at trying to get
more people involved in these discussions.  And my intention is to serve
this association in order to enhance their activities in the region and to
help people from the Latin American region in this IGF discussion.  That's
my speech.

>> Raul:  Thank you.  (foreign language) I pronounced it well?

>> (pronunciation) I am proud to recruit new members from around the world
and from developing countries also and to bring also the diversity insides
of our organization.  Thank you so much.

>> Raul:  Thank you.  So Marilyn, you want to speak in favor of Karen?

>> Marilyn:  I'm not going to introduce Karen.  Some people know Karen
McCabe.  She is the senior director of strategic marketing and product
development at I triple E. IEEE is the world standard organization and has
350,000 members world wide, scientists, engineers and researchers and they
are -- they are increasingly active in the Internet Governance space.  I
think sometimes that may not be as visible to some of you.  I see a member
here, a key leader here, but they are doing extensive work particularly in
the area of outreach where a key catalyst to the creation of the global
Connect initiative, which is now endorsed by a very large number of
companies and by organizations helping to advance the access for the
underconnected and the unconnected.  Karen conversation with me was that
she hoped they are a global organization and that she felt that their focus
could be on bringing in, drawing in awareness about the IGF particularly
from the countries where there's not enough participation now and using
also their networks to be able to reach the research scientists and
engineers who are particularly interested.

>> Raul:  Thank you very much.  I knowledge that's Mark. Are you online?
Can you hear -- I think that's Mark.  Are you online?  Can you hear?  Go
ahead.

>> (no sound)

>> Raul:  Thank you very much, Mark.  Anybody interested in speaking on
behalf of Cassy?

>> I think we need to remind people --

>> Raul:  I say that in the beginning, but I will refresh that.  Anybody
interested on behalf of Crosse?  No?  So the remaining members of the IGFSA
executive committee are soony from India, marlingin Kate and Kate LLC,
Edmond Chong from Asia and for last but not least, Simpson from AFaircraft
TA. Those are the five remaining executive committee members. Okay?  So we
can close this part of the process.  Please come to pick your ballot.  27
members votedd.  It is very high voting.  People elected, I will not say
you ho many for each.  They are available here if you want to review it.
People per serving in 2000 for three years starting right now are Avri
Doria. [APPLAUSE] Marco KOOMER.  Karen McCabe, who is not here.  Eduardo
San toyio.  Congratulations.  Best wishes.  Okay.  So now I think we will
continue.  There are two -- okay.  We have the next -- the next point is
the approval of the annual budget. Sorry.  I forgot to thank all the people
who ran for the election and that is who expressed and decided to rung for
the executive committee.  It's great that we have people to volunteer on
this work.  Be sure to come back next year because there will be a need for
more people to --

>> (inaudible)

>> Raul:  Yeah.  Okay.  Next point in the agenda is the approval for the
annual budget for 2017.  Basically upon recommendation, by executive
committee.  The recommendation is very simple.D former executive committee
brought for your approval is the following.  It is to allocate 35% of the
incomes to the IGF trust fund.  If you see that this is a change with
regard to the amended budget of 2016, that was 40, 40%.  We are proposing
now 35%.  We are proposing 40% for the support team national and original
IGFs.  10% for supporting IGF secretariat in things that they need.  We
have, for example, funded trips of volunteers of the IGF secretariat to IGf
is meetings or things that they need in a week or have time for going
through the normal channels for approval.  So what we will ask the IGF
secretariat is to be a bit more formal in the request they make to will
IGFSA for things to be funded.  8% to the contingency fund and 7% for
outreach and communication activities. Fortunately, they make 100%.  I will
repeat.  35% for the contributing to UN Iany, F trust fund.  10% for
supporting the -- I forgot.  Edmond had asked me to present together the
two.  35% for the IGF frust fund and 10% for supporting IGF secretariat
directly.  8% for contingency fund and 7% for communication and outreach
activities.  Any comment or question?  No?  Okay.  So please for the
approval of these, please raise your hand if you are in favor.  Okay.
Thank you.  Against?  Abstentions?  Okay.  It was approval.  So the last
point in our agenda is any other business.  So any other business?
Marilyn, please.

>> Marilyn:  Thank you.  I had two quick comments.  One I just want to
remind everybody that the NRIs are hosting their main session on day 2 and
to remind all of you there will be 41 NRI's coordinators speaking.  Now let
me come to my second point.  IGFSA actually exist because of the commitment
that Raul and Issac contributed to help us stand up the legal structure and
to make contributions and I can attest as having been there from the
beginning what a fantastic chair he has been and the diligence and
commitment that he has brought personally as well as the support that he
has brought as a formal representative of ISOC.  But I want to you
recognize his personal commitment and leadership as well. [APPLAUSE]

>> Raul:  Thank you very much, Marilyn.

>> Second one what Marilyn has just said, I have known Raul for many years
and he has been very, very patient to executive members when they were
often and not necessarily on time on the calls.  His leadership and
dedication has helped us a lot.  So I want to thank him as well and ask a
question now since this election you have decided not to run again and we
are without a chair starting the end of this meeting.  So procedurally, how
are we going to go forward for not to wait for a month or whatever?  Can we
do it as an executive -- new executive committee soon?

>> Raul:  We have discussed this morning with some of the former executive
committee members was that the new executive committee can have a brief
meeting this week.  I think Kyle can help to schedule the meeting.  Maybe
you can meet 5, 10 minutes and elect the new chair on the secretary if
needed.  Mostly Karen is not here.

>> Yeah.  Karen is not here anyhow the whole week.

>> Raul:  Oh.

>> So it will not -- yeah.  And some of the other members as well.  So
Kyle, can you make -- make sure we come together this week and remote
participation as much as we can.

>> Raul:  Yes.  So no any other business?  Please.

>> Quite a few things.  I'm very new and probably these are already there,
but I wanted to know if they're not, then I suggest we discuss it at some
point.  With the membership, there's not much awareness created on local
levels except people who are engaged in the IGF already who come here, they
hear from other friends who are in fault in IGFSA.  So, I would suggest if
we can go to the regional levels, if we can do like membership committees
on reasonable levels who can do two basic things.  Number 1, create
awareness about IGFSA and number 2, help with collecting the membership
dues on reasonable levels.  It's gonna be sometimes difficult and normally
people in the region meet often and they can collect dues there and send it
to the headquarters.  Number 2 was the voting rights.  If not in this
general assembly meeting, probably for the next one if we can discuss some
organizations would be interested to see what the benefits are.  Right?
The membership benefits.  If we can enlist that and voting rights would be
one or rights based on individual members in the organizational members.
And number 3 would be committees that could support the executive committee
with the work related to the IGFSA's business, that would be another
suggestion.  So these three basic suggestions.

>> Raul:  Thank you very much.  Any other business? Okay.  So we will
adjourn the meetings.  Before doing that, I want to thank all the people
that have renewed their individual memberships and all the organizations
that have contributed to IGFSA this year.  I think it's now that we clarify
the relationship between IGFSA and this.  We will not be distracted and we
will be more active in raising funds.  So I hope the organization will
continue well and the basis are set for the work of this foundation.  What
the mission is very important.  We have to continue contributing with that.
Personally, I want to thank the people that have supported me for being in
this executive committee for the last two years and I will stay around.  I
already paid my renewal. [Laughter] [APPLAUSE] meeting is adjourned.

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