[Chapter-delegates] IGF Ambassadorship Open

[Raul Echeberria]

Hi everybody

I would like to thank all the comments and feedbacks you have provided in the last few days on this topic. 

We have many different programs and different fellows programs that target different audiences. Some are oriented to new leaders, others to policy makers, to technical people or to chapters leaders.  
Those are programatic decisions based on the objectives of each of the programs which are different among them.
For example, the regional Chapters workshops are managed with different criteria. We held the European regional workshop, attended by 23 chapters if I remember well and we will have the LAC one this month in Costa Rica. 
This is a chapter oriented program, like also Beyond he Net.  

The IGF Ambassadors is one of our very successful programs and it is oriented to a given target. We have even received sometimes criticism in the opposite direction of the discussion in this list. Some people think that we should low the age of the participants. I think that the current program is good and it is complementary to other initiatives we have, like the Youth program in which we participated last year together with the CGI Brasil and that we are trying to replicate this year.  

I have the opportunity to participate as a Mentor of the IGF Ambassador program the last 2 years and it has been a very good experience. It has been exciting to work with the participants, who represent a good balance between youth and experience and that brings every year new energy to the IGF. 

As I said, these are programatic decisions, so they can be always arguable in one direction or another. 
Can we have other programs? of course! And we do it. 
Programs and projects evolve all the time looking always for the most effective ways to accomplish our goals and objectives. 

I really hope that we have this year once again a good list of candidates for participating in this programa and I encourage you to promote people from your communities to participate. 

We appreciate very much your support for the continue success of this program. (and all the other programs, or course) 


Best, 

Raúl