hi jeanette and all<br><br>My 2 cents on workshop quality and quantity: i think the key criteria for admittance should be the connection to INTERNET GOVERNANCE. I myself have a broad definition and i think selection should be broad but here in Rio are workshops about
e.g. education, or e.g. intellectual property law , where not even the attempt is made to connect it to internet governance.<br><br>If we do not want this innovative political body to become just another conference we do need to be more focused and hence selective.
<br><br>best<br>max<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2007 1:55 PM, Jeanette Hofmann <<a href="mailto:jeanette@wzb.eu">jeanette@wzb.eu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi, open slots are a feature. They meant for people to organize meetings<br>spontaneously.<br>Regarding poorly organized or attended workshops, I would be interested<br>to hear how we could prevent that. My impression is that most people
<br>would in the meantime welcome a lower number of workshops. Assuming that<br>the number of applications for workshops won't go down, this would mean<br>that the selection criteria would have to be tightened. Fewer workshops
<br>could also conflict with the principle guiding the preparation of Athens<br>and Rio, namely that if we have the space, we should not deny any<br>workshop proposals. I would be interested in getting some feedback from<br>
attendees on how they see this issue.<br>Tomorrow morning there will be a taking stock session. This could be one<br>of the issues to be discussed there.<br>jeanette<br><br>Vittorio Bertola wrote:<br>> Ian Peter ha scritto:
<br>>> Overall a disappointing involvement of CS and I wonder why this is so.<br>>> Is European parliament irrelevant or are we just disorganized?<br>><br>> I think we're just too busy, I strongly wanted to attend but I was
<br>> caught in the aftermath of our workshop.<br>> In general, perhaps there are too many things going on at the same time?<br>> For example, the schedule does not take into account the fact that<br>> people have to meet before workshops to prepare them, prepare reports
<br>> after them, etc... and then also move back and forth from hotels that<br>> are 30-45 mins away, which doesn't encourage to be here from 8:30 to<br>> 19:30. Since the IGF started, I barely managed to pop into a few
<br>> workshops for 15 minutes each, nothing more.<br>> I'm possibly busier than usual and maybe there's nothing that can be<br>> done about this, but each of us should take note of possible suggestions<br>
> for next year: I'm starting to note (or get reports of) several open<br>> slots and poorly organized / poorly attended workshops, and perhaps<br>> there could be less of them, but with a higher attendance and significance.
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