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<div><div>On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:51 AM, parminder wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I did a paper on dev agenda in IG last year which is at<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.itforchange.net/sites/default/files/ITfC/%20%20Dev%20agenda%20in%20IG%20200412.pdf">http://www.itforchange.net/sites/default/files/ITfC/%20%20Dev%20agenda%20in%20IG%20200412.pdf</a> . It speaks about global pubic policy issues and institutional options. Best, parminder</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Indeed, and basically conflates your views on enhanced cooperation with the notion of a development agenda. Do you believe it'd be easy for a diverse group to reach consensus on such points in a day?</div><div><br></div><div>Here's another development agenda paper <a href="http://www.academia.edu/1902649/Drake_William_J._2010._IG4D_Toward_a_Development_Agenda_for_Internet_Governance._In_Internet_Governance_Creating_Opportunities_for_All---The_Fourth_Internet_Governance_Forum_Sharm_el_Sheikh_Egypt_15-18_November_2009_edited_by_William_J._Drake_57-75._New_York_The_United_Nations">http://www.academia.edu/1902649/Drake_William_J._2010._IG4D_Toward_a_Development_Agenda_for_Internet_Governance._In_Internet_Governance_Creating_Opportunities_for_All---The_Fourth_Internet_Governance_Forum_Sharm_el_Sheikh_Egypt_15-18_November_2009_edited_by_William_J._Drake_57-75._New_York_The_United_Nations</a> that focused more on the procedural side and argues for having working groups under the IGF aegis, which I'd like to see for enhanced cooperation (to be discussed at the event following BB <a href="http://ec-event-igf2012.apc.org/programme">http://ec-event-igf2012.apc.org/programme</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, I'd argue for an institution building procedural focus as something that might actually be doable in the time available, and useful as input to the IGF meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></body></html>