D ear Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee (IAC), Thank you for your continued work to support the GIFCT, its Board and its mission through the sharing of your insights and valuable input. We appreciated receiving the IAC's annual

Response to IAC Annual Report We are pleased to see that the IAC believes in GIFCT's mission and is committed to supporting our journey towards becoming a unique partnership space for internet companies and platforms to counter the exploitation of the online space by extremist groups. [...] Regarding the specific recommendations provided in the report, we would like to highlight the following: ● On Governance Structure: We understand the concerns raised about the governance structure of GIFCT, we believe that the current structure has been designed to ensure that GIFCT remains focused on its core mission. [...] The inclusion of the IAC Chair in Board meetings is intended to facilitate communication on Board discussions and a direct feedback loop to the IAC on Board decisions and discussion and we hope to continue to use this as a vehicle to keep the wider IAC informed. [...] A s we have previously shared with the IAC, the Board would like to bring the Annual Summit more centrally into the focus and guidance of the IAC as the core multi-stakeholder convening point. [...] Response to IAC Horizon Scanning Report We share the IAC’s high-level assessment of key violent extremist trends and threats on the current horizon, in particular the challenges that arise from the fragmentation and decentralization of violent extremist behavior online.