Summary Record of the 2021 IGFSA General Assembly

1. Adoption of the agenda
2. Executive Committee election
3. Approval of the Summary Record of the 2020 General Assembly
4. Adoption of the contents of the reports and financial statements for the year
5. Approval of the annual budget, based upon a recommendation by the Executive
   Committee.
6. Fundraising
7. Decide on a modification of the Articles of Association, based upon a recommendation by the Executive Committee
8. Release of obligations of the Executive Committee members
9. Any Other Business

1. The agenda was adopted as proposed, with the switching of the order of Agenda Item II
   and III.

Out-going Executive Committee member and Treasurer, Jimson Olufuye, gave thanks to the
IGFSA EC for their dedication to supporting the IGFSA and the IGFSA members for donating
generously to cause and stepping up for elections. As the Elections Officer, Jimson Olufuye gave
an overview of the Elections process. He noted that he original election started on 26 November
2021 at 00:00 UTC and all ballots were spoiled due to an incomplete candidate list. The Election
was reset and ballots were sent out again on 3 December 2021 at 23:30 UTC and the voting
period closed at 23:59 UTC 9 December 2021. Of the 33 ballots sent out, 28 were cast and 58
votes were tallied.

• Fiona Asonga: 17.3%
• Amrita Choudhury: 19.2%
• Anriette Esterhuysen: 42.3%
• Fotjon Kosta: 5.8%
• K Mohan Raidu: 1.9%
• Lawrence Olawale-Roberts: 1.9%
• Olusegun H Olugbile: 11.5%

  Anriette Esterhuysen and Amrita Choudhury were elected as new to the IGFSA Executive
  Committee. The full 2020-2021 IGFSA Executive Committee was constituted as follows:

• Markus Kummer, Independent (Chair)
• Joyce Chen, APNIC
• Amrita Choudhury, CCAOI
• Brian Cute, Independent
• Wisdom Donkor, AODIRF
• Anriette Esterhuysen, APC
• Nigel Hickson, Independent
• Christopher Mondini, ICANN
• Eduardo Santoyo, .co

1. The summary record of the previous General Assembly from 2 November 2020 that was
   held in a virtual setting, was approved.

1. Jennifer Chung, Secretary, presented the 2020-2021 Report on IGFSA Activities. The
   report describes new memberships, meeting schedules, Executive Committee
   subcommittees, Executive Committee composition and how funds were collected and
   allocated. She also presented the projected funds allocation for 2022. The Secretary
   noted that all 19 Executive Committee meetings were held in a virtual setting due to the
   COVID-19 pandemic considerations. She also noted that there were new initiatives
   headlined by EC members in particular for fundraising to broaden the donor base, as
   well as outreach and communications, and a quarterly IGFSA newsletter was
   inaugurated this year.
2. The Annual report was adopted as presented, and the draft status to be changed to final
   on the IGFSA website.

1. Jimson Olufuye, Treasurer, presented the financial report for IGFSA 2020-2021. He gave
   an overview of the status of the IGFSA bank accounts and broad categories of
   disbursements, expenditures and income received. Christopher Mondini, as part of the
   EC Audit Committee, noted that the financial report has been looked at to ensure
   alignment.
2. The Annual Budget was adopted as recommended by the Executive Committee.

1. There was discussion raised by IGFSA members suggesting that IGFSA provide funding
   for Schools for Internet Governance during a previous agenda item. The Chair noted
   that this discussion can be taken up by the Executive Committee when the new EC is
   convened.
2. Christopher Mondini gave an introduction to the fundraising outreach activities
   undertaken by the EC this year. He noted that IGFSA has had an incredible roster of
   donors that have come and go, and in 2021 a plan was prepared with the assistance of
   Brian Cute to reinvigorate that process. Together with the EC, a value proposition was
   developed and refined during a course of outreach meetings to listen to donors, current, past and potential future donors to hear what they want to get out of IGFSA
   and what value they would expect for their contribution. He further noted that concrete
   feedback was received from the Domain Name Registries regarding encouraging
   capacity building and training on how the Domain Name System works as a component
   of the NRIs supported by the IGFSA. He noted that there is a list of companies and
   stakeholders that the IGFSA will reach out to in 2022 and encouraged IGFSA members to
   let the EC know if there are additional organisations and institutions that may be
   interested in supporting the IGFSA mission.
3. Vint Cerf, IGFSA member, announced a pledge, on behalf of Google, of $100,000 USD in
   2022, to go to the IGF operation. He noted that it will be an unrestricted grant from the
   Tides Foundation by way of Google. He also pledged to make a similar commitment to
   the IGF Secretariat in a similar amount.
4. Markus Kummer, Chair, noted that it would be possible to schedule a dedicated
   brainstorming session on fundraising with IGFSA member. He further noted that
   crowdfunding was an item that was not developed further in 2021 due to the pandemic,
   but hoped that the new EC will take up the topic with a new perspective in 2022.

1. Markus Kummer, Chair, presented the proposed text for the modification of the IGFSA
   Articles of Association, as circulated to the membership prior to the General Assembly.
   He noted that it was a legacy issue whereby Internet Society was named Secretary for
   IGFSA in its founding, and currently Secretariat services are provided by DotAsia
   Organisation. The proposed modification is a minor change that would remove the mention of a specific organisation or provider for the Secretariat for IGFSA. This change
   would allow the IGFSA Articles of Association to be more streamlined and futureproof.
2. The modification of the Articles of Association was adopted based upon a
   recommendation by the Executive Committee.

1. At the request of the Chair, the General Assembly granted the discharge to the IGFSA
   Executive Committee.

1. A question was raised regarding whether the IGFSA had an opinion on the proposed
   high-level panel for the oversight of the IGF. The Chair noted that the IGFSA EC has not
   had any discussion on policy issues as the scope of the IGFSA Articles of Association was
   to support the IGF. The IGFSA EC noted that the wasn’t much detail on how the
   leadership panel will operate, that there is space to explore more interaction between
   the IGFSA and IGF structures and it would be good for IGFSA to stay aware of
   developments.