On 9/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeanette Hofmann</b> <<a href="mailto:jeanette@wzb.eu">jeanette@wzb.eu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>its a good idea to draw speakers from the workshop panels but we should<br>not restrict ourselves to this group of people.</blockquote><div><br>Jeanette is absolutely right. I wrote "in priority" in my remark on drawing introductory speakers from the corresponding workshops. It is in no way the exclusive source, just a good base to start with.
<br><br>Best<br><br>Bertrand<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>
><br>> At the risk of repeating myself, couldn't the speakers in the main<br>> sessions be drawn in priority from the speakers who will participate in<br>> the workshops related to the corresponding track ? Workshop organizers
<br>> could play a role in suggesting some of their speakers to report to the<br>> main session.<br>><br>> Speakers in the main session would therefore be mostly introducing<br>> discussion and opening a broader debate in the main session, drawing on
<br>> the discussions in the workshops held before or to be held afterwards.<br>><br>> Main advantages : it engages and rewards organizers of workshops, giving<br>> them a say in the selection of speakers; it valorizes the most
<br>> interesting workshop speakers; it establishes a natural linkage between<br>> the workshops and the related main session; last but not least, we are<br>> more or less sure that these people have already planned to be there,
<br>> which is not the case for the great people we might think of but who do<br>> not have yet heard of the IGF or have not indicated their intention to<br>> come.<br>><br>> My two cents.<br>><br>> Best
<br>><br>> Bertrand<br>><br>></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>____________________<br>Bertrand de La Chapelle<br>Délégué Spécial pour la Société de l'Information / Special Envoy for the Information Society
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