<div dir="ltr">Just one very brief update. One of the topics of the next EMC teleconference will be "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Meeting format: activities within sessions". That would be a good opportunity to raise the point of on-site deliberation and make proposals, I think.If there are suggestions, I would be more than happy to convey.</span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">M</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Marilia Maciel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mariliamaciel@gmail.com" target="_blank">mariliamaciel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jeremy and all,<div><br></div><div>The topic of models for deliberation are very important. Thanks for raising it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My own feeling about it is that we should either focus on pushing for on-site deliberative mechanisms that would facilitate consensus during the Sao Paulo or on pushing for an online platform. My impression is that the organization of the meeting would lack experience to identify the best model of on-site deliberation for this particular meeting and setting. If we want on-site deliberative mechanisms in place, we would need to offer assistance with that, and this would consume us. But I think it would be worthy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regarding the platform, it is not clear to me what is the expected timeframe for us (how to make a meaningful consultation fit our schedule) and which document (if any) should be the base of our consultation. Remember, for instance, that the synthesis paper that will be produced by the Secretariat will only be available on March 7. Should the synthesis be the base of our online debate? In my view, comments on a synthesis doc are likely to produce just another syntheses. It is not clear at the present moment that we will have an actual draft proposal on principles or frameworks prior to the meeting and, if so, who should produce it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If we dont work with one single document posted for comments, are we suggesting that everybody (at least each stakeholder group) should be able to post their documents for comments? Then how productive and cross-stakeholder would that be? Would stakeholders interact, or work to improve their own documents? Plus, there are huge challenges to shynthetize online contributions in a way that we "arrive at some point" and not just at another compilation. How do we propose that organizers make a synthesis of several documents being commented and evolving on different directions? I think that online consultations are a great idea. We have seen how effective they can be in our national examples. But I think they need to be carefully conceived and thought-thorough. My feeling either is that we take the time to think it through and propose something very clear and concrete to the organizers, or they wont probably invest their resources on that. But then, shouldn't we better focus on the actual dynamics of the meeting?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marília</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Thanks for this initiative, +1 from us. Please add the
Internet Democracy Project to the signatories.<br>
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The only small quibble I have is that the one reference to the
IGF that is maintained (I read the conversation about this on
the summit list) continues to read a little awkwardly. I've
tried to reformulate it in a more positive way. Maybe an
alternative for the first sentence of the second para could be
the following?<br>
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<i>As the Brazil meeting's organisers are free to experiment
with such procedures, an important opportunity to achieve
these objectives and to thus transcend the constraints of
the IGF in particular, caused by its location within the UN
system, now exists. </i><br>
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Thanks, that's very helpful and I've incorporated that amendment
now.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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(This is the second of three sign-on statements that go live today.
Deborah will write about the third.)<div><br>
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