MAG

The Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) was established by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on May 17, 2006 as the Advisory Group to help him set-up the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the latest avenue for multi-stakeholder dialogue on internet governance. IGF was the outcome of the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Originally, MAG was compose of 47 members from different sectors including government, private, civil society, academic and technical communities around the world. Nitin Desai, Special Adviser of the Sec. General for the WSIS was appointed Chairman of the Group.

On May 5, 2010, the United Nations announced the renewal of MAG to provide advise in preparation for the IGF Meeting, which was held at Vilnius, Lithuania on September 14-17, 2010. The members of MAG was increased from 47 to 56. The Group's meetings are conducted three times a year at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Open consultation meetings are held after every meeting.

Members

• Qusai Al Shatti- Deputy Chairman of Kuwait Information Technology Society
• David Appasamy- Executive Vice President, Sify Technologies, India
• Christine Arida - Director of Telecom Planning and Services, National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt
• Fouad Bajwa – Social Entrepreneur, Pakistan
• Bayramov, Ayaz - Head Dept. of Intl. Relations &Cooperation with NGOs, Ministry of Comm. and Information Technologies, Azerbaijan
• Valeria Betancourt-Coordinator of the Communication and Information Policy Programme in Latin America, Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Ecuador
• Jorge Cancio Meliá- Deputy to the Director of Information Society Services, General Direction for the Development of the Information Society, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade; Madrid
• Olga del Carmen Cavalli- Adviser for Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina
• Daniel Dardailler- Director of International Relations, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), France
• Ndeye Maimouna Diop Diagne- Dir. of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and ICT, Senegal
• Chris Disspain- CEO, Aus Registry; Chair, Council of Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), Australia
• Manuel B. Dengo-Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations Office at Geneva
• Heather Dryden- Senior Advisor, International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination, Telecommunications Policy Branch, Canada
• Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director/CEO, Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC), Uruguay
• Coura Fall-Fall, Senegal
• Ondřej Filip, Chief Executive Officer of CZ.NIC, Czech Republic
• Sunday Folayan- Managing Director, SKANNET, Nigeria
• Alvaro Galvani - Head, Division of Information Society, Ministry of External Relations, Brazil
• Jean Yves Gatete-Secretary-General, Collectif National pour le Développement Humanitaire, Burundi
• Bill Graham- Global Strategic Engagement, Internet Society (ISOC), Canada
• Cathy Handley- Executive Director for Government Affairs/Public Policy, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), U.S.A.
• Ayesha Hasan- Senior Policy Manager, E-Business, IT, and Telecoms, Executive in charge of ICT, France
• Abdelaziz Hilali- Professor, Institut Supérieur des Télécommunications de Rabat; President, Internet Society Morocco
• Jeanette Hofmann- Senior Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)/Social Science Research Center Berlin
• Zahid Jamil -Senior Partner and Barrister-at-Law, Jamil and Jamil, Chairman Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre, Pakistan
• Masanobu Katoh- Pres. of the Law and Intellectual Property Unit and Security Export Control Headquarters, Fujitsu Limited, Japan
• Michael Katundu- Assistant Director, Information Technology Communications Commission, Kenya
• Nazmul Huda Khan- Secretary, Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology, Bangladesh
• Igor Khimchenko-Deputy Dir. for Scientific, Technical & Strategy Development Dept., Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communication, Russia
• Valdas Kišonas- Director, Information Society Development Committee under the Ministry of Transport & Communication, Lithuania
• Stephen K.M. Lau-Adviser, HP Enterprise Services and President, Hong Kong Computer Society, Hong Kong
• Frank March- Senior Specialist Advisor, Digital Development Energy & Communications Branch, Ministry of Economic Development,New Zealand
• Cecil McCain- Director of Post and Telecommunications, Office of the Prime Minister, Jamaica
• Sardjoeni Moedjiono- Senior Adviser, Minister of Comm. & Information Technology for International Relations and Digital Divide, Indonesia
• Freda Ruth Murray-Bruce- Senior Manager, Strategy & Monitoring, Nigerian Communications Commission, Nigeria
• Nurani Nimpuno- Outreach & Communications, Netnod/Autonomica, Sweden
• Viv Padayatchy- General Manager, Cybernaptics Limited, Mauritius
• George Papadatos- Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland
• Paul Philippot Jean- President, European Broadcasting Union, EBU & CEO of Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française (RTBF, Belgium
• Y. J. Park- Senior Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• Lorena Piñeiro- Head of International Affairs Department, Undersecretariate of Telecommunications, Chile
• Natasha Primo- Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) National ICT Policy Advocacy Initiative, South Africa
• Nii Quaynor- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Network Computer Systems; President, Internet Society of Ghana
• Riehl, Frédéric- Deputy Director, Head of International Relations Service at the Federal Office of Communications, Switzerland
• Katitza Rodriguez Pereda- International Rights Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation, United States
• Peiman Seadat- Deputy Director for International Specialized Agencies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran
• Graciela Selaimen- Executive Coordinator, Núcleo de Pesquisas, Estudos e Formação (NUPEF), Brazil
• Charles Sha'ban- Executive Director, Regional Office, TAG-IP, Jordan
• Ravi Shanker- Joint Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India
• Waudo Siganga- Chair Computer Society of Kenya
• Juan Carlos Solines Moreno- Partner Solines & Asociados Abogados, Equador
• Theresa Swinehart-Director, Global Internet Policy, Verizon Communications, USA
• Zicai Tang- Deputy Director, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China
• Emily Taylor- Consultant Oxford, UK
• Jennifer A. Warren- Vice President, Technology Policy & Regulation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, USA