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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Hi Parminder,<BR>
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On the role and mandate workshop: Having done it last year, I don’t think it’s right for me to do it again, and anyway I’m in the jurisdiction group. My suggestion would be that we get new blood involved, people who’ve been active in the caucus, have thought a lot about this, but can broker between different tendencies etc. Some obvious convener candidates like Willie, Lee, others, come to mind if they’d be interested... <BR>
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It may be that part of what’s holding people back is the prospect of a complicated and time consuming process, but in reality, this really shouldn’t be too hard. It’s not necessary to renegotiate the ws description from scratch and totally rethink the co-sponsors and speakers in the next nine days. Last year’s event went well and everyone seemed to come away fairly happy (including some parties that fretted about it in advance), so we seemingly established a certain level of trust and understanding that the event is useful and won’t blow up the joint. I assume the MAG would expect to see a proposal for a v.2 from us (or more to the point, would be rather surprised not to), and that we shouldn’t have to re-convince them too elaborately as long as we cross the T’s and dot the I’s in terms of being MS with diverse views etc. So why not resubmit largely the same text and reach out to the more or less the same kinds of co-sponsors and non-CS speakers we had last year (ICC/Ayesha, ISOC/Bill, developing country/India, developed country/EC, etc), come up with three new IGC speakers with varying shades of positions, submit whatever we have by April 30, and then add later as needed. <BR>
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BTW, for reference, the report on last year’s version of the ws is now at <BR>
<a href="http://intgovforum.org/Rio_event_report.php?mem=30.">http://intgovforum.org/Rio_event_report.php?mem=30.</a><BR>
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Best,<BR>
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Bill<BR>
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On 4/21/08 4:57 PM, "Parminder" <parminder@itforchange.net> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Update on workshop proposals for IGF.<BR>
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1. Role and mandate of the IGF<BR>
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Still looking for volunteers to convene and participate in WG. Karen and Baudouin Schombe have expressed interest to participate. Anyone ready to convene? . Someone from the group that did it last year? We have Bill and Vittorio from the last year’s group (Karen has said no to convening, and I do not want to). If no one volunteers to convene in the next 24 hours, will one of you please take up the task? In any case participation from the last year’s group will be good. <BR>
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2. Trans-boundary jurisdiction<BR>
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The WG is working<BR>
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3. ‘The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?’<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080">IGP/ Milton is going ahead with planning this. They have asked again if anyone from the IGC will like to participate and given suggestions. <BR>
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4. Rights based approach the Internet – Implications for IG<BR>
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A draft is being developed. <BR>
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As per the timeline given below, we will like to keep a draft for each proposal for comments of the group from 23rd to 26th, and if good ground to propose a consensus process is made out, it will be done over 27th – 29th. <BR>
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Since people are giving their valuable time to developing these proposals, it will be good if members who have any comments on these proposals, and the appropriateness of these being sponsored by the IGC, share them right away.<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Parminder <BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'><B>From:</B> Parminder [<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net]">mailto:parminder@itforchange.net]</a> <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:26 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> RE: [governance] IGC workshops<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Hi All<BR>
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This is where we stand on our workshop proposals. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><OL><LI><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Role and mandate of the IGF</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'> <BR>
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The call is open for volunteers to convene and join this group. As Adam and others said this should be a very useful exercise of evaluating the IGF at the mid-point of its (expectedly, initial) 5 year life. We will need to build on the work that got done for this workshop last year. As you know, we did hold a workshop in the same topic last year and the proposal is that we make this a regular IGF feature. <BR>
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Significantly, the IGF page listing the topic under which workshop proposals (<a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm">http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm</a> ) may be given says; “Workshops on other issues relating to Internet governance and the mandate of the IGF are also welcome.” We seem to be already in. I think this is an important impact of IGC’s first ever workshop on this topic last year, that it is now a part of the official list of themes for workshops. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></OL><FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>A WG convened by Bret is developing this proposal. <BR>
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As proposed earlier, in this slot it will be useful to put in the IGP workshop proposal on ‘The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?’ Please see Milton’s email of the 17th on this. Any IGC member who wishes to work with IGP group to develop/ influence this workshop proposal may write to Milton (and/or me), and can become a part of a WG.<BR>
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</FONT>Michael and Karen are co-coordinating a WG on this, and a proposal will soon be shared for discussion, as with other proposal. Anyone who wants to join this WG is welcome.<FONT COLOR="#000080"> <BR>
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</FONT>If we can have the proposals from the WGs by the 23rd we can discuss them in the IGC till the 26th and then put them for a consensus call. These need to be submitted by 30th. We should get as much information in as possible to fill in the workshop application form which lists the following questions. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Name of proposed workshop</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Provide a concise description of the proposed workshop theme including its importance and relevance to the IGF.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite. Describe the main actors in the field and whether you have you approached them about their willingness to participate in proposed workshop.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups. Describe how you will take steps to adhere to the multi-stakeholder principle, geographical diversity and gender balance.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Does the proposed workshop provide different perspectives on the issues under discussion?</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Please explain how the workshop will address issues relating to Internet governance and describe how the workshop conforms with the Tunis Agenda in terms of substance and the mandate of the IGF.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>List similar events you and/or any other IGF workshops you have organized in the past.</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Were you part of organizing a workshop last year? Which one? Did you submit a workshop report?</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>9. Under which of the five IGF themes does the proposal fall under ?</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'> <BR>
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The workshop proposal request says that at this stage we need to “</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>at least provide answers to </SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>questions # 1,2,4 and 9”.See<B> </B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm">http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm</a> <a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm"><http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm></a> <FONT COLOR="#000080"> . F</FONT></SPAN></FONT></B><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial">or answering question 9,<B> </B>please see the list of topics mentioned on this link, though workshops outside these topics can also be proposed. <BR>
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Thanks. Parminder <BR>
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