<div dir="ltr">Hello All,<br><br>I want to expand it a little more. I have come across comments in this and other lists related to the diversity of participation at the IGFs.<br><br>One reason why the IGF is not inclusive is that the debates so far are largely confined to a technical and policy making elite. It is very positive to see so many eminent professionals taking part in the debates and the policy making process, but Internet is huge and it is more international than any thing that ever happened on earth. It requires greater participation in debates, requires to consider more diverse view points.<br>
<br>Can we think of levels or layers of participation? A list like this could continue to be of the same caliber of subscribers, an official website such as <a href="http://intgovfourm.org">intgovfourm.org</a> can be more of an administrative interface, but the new IGF website could be a multi-level or a multi-layered web <br>
<br>- a level/layer in the nature of an ORKUT or a facebook as a 'general' dmz level for exposure of the issues to the non-technical common man,<br><br>- another level/layer in the nature of LinkedIn Answers or Yahoo Answers as a 'participate' level <br>
<br>and <br><br>- deeper level/layer in the nature of the present CPSR list as a 'policy-making' level<br><br>This would be a combined web, where it should be possible for anyone (in total, hundreds of thousands of members) to move his way up. At each level the members would observe the self-regulatory conventions and etiquettes of the level.<br>
<br>Each layer would have features suitable for the visitors/subscribers of the layer. For instance Aaron Agien Nyangkwe's suggestion of "Quote for the Day" would be in the nature of an easy to view and understand "story" at the 'general' level for the common man to understand something new about the Internet / Internet Governance. At the CPSR level, it could be a salient comment related to policy-making drawn from the discussions in the CPSR list.<br>
<br>There can be various models and we can think deeper to come up with a site architecture and content design.<br><br>Thank you<br>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Lee W McKnight <<a href="mailto:lmcknigh@syr.edu" target="_blank">lmcknigh@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2">Actually I think it is good if it is done in an ad hoc, self-organized way, as much as possible.<br>
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While some/all/most of these suggestions are quite good, one must keep in mind who is going to have the time to update and manage the site, and even to create the content. It's no good saying we will do x and y and z, and then finding it's done in an ad hoc manner, or not even at all.<br>
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RE: [governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?<br>
it should be easy for different linguistic communities, if they so chose, to build and maintain their own versions, with a 'click here' button at the top for Chinese or Spanish or whatever<br>
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Subject: Re: [governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?<br>
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Hello<br>
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Sivasubramanian's proposals are exhaustive.<br>
And I'll add that we include a "Quote of the Day" in which the forum<br>
administrators highlight a landmark statement made by a participant of<br>
the Forum during the a day. This alone can incite more visits to the<br>
site as well.<br>
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Aaron<br>
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On 7/24/08, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com" target="_blank">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello<br>
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> The IGF website needs to be designed for the common man who has no idea of<br>
> what IGF is all about. It needs to have basic introductory information about<br>
> IGF, about previous IGFs, the forthcoming IGFs and about ways of<br>
> participating in the IGF.<br>
><br>
> It should have an easy to work around Web 2.0 interface with collaborative<br>
> tools to connect for the expert user. It can have a column for the IGF<br>
> secreatriate to make annoncements, pages where contact and procedural<br>
> information pertaining to proposals, participation, fellowships etc are<br>
> posted in an uncluttered format. It needs to include the discussion forums<br>
> etc. as in <a href="http://intgovforum.org" target="_blank">intgovforum.org</a> or at least a page with links to the existing<br>
> forums.<br>
><br>
> The <a href="http://intgovfourm.org" target="_blank">intgovfourm.org</a> has a "technie" look and feel, the new IGF wesbite needs<br>
> to look easy.<br>
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> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>
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> > What do you guys want in a IGF website?<br>
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