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<div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font face="Calibri" size="3">I understand your concern and I have to confess that it also makes me feel unsecure to leave such a wide margin of decision on the hands of the MAG.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font face="Calibri" size="3">On the other hand, there was a negative aspect on the model that was in place until last year, regarding the organization of the workshops, in my opinion. If the free arrangements between workshop proposers allowed people with the same frame of mind to get together, it also lacked transparency and openness.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font face="Calibri" size="3">It allowed pals to define a workshop proposal and make it public when everything was agreed, no other organizer could be included (with real space) and no important adjustment to the main theme could be made.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font face="Calibri" size="3">I believe it´s good to start this debate early and carry it publicly. But I also agree that we should follow this process closely, and don´t leave it all to MAG. This should be seriously debated and I am glad that you mentioned it.</font></p>
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<div>Marília <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ginger Paque <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Definitely an important point here, Milton. However, as I understand it, at this point we are not putting any real “work” or commitment into the workshop proposal, but brainstorming basic ideas. Interested groups would continue/commit with the process after the next step by the Secretariat. For the moment, it is quite an informal proposition, as I see it, to measure the amount of interest and to facilitate groupings before much energy is invested in the workshop design and planning. I think this is better than developing a full workshop proposal only to be told that workshops will be combined/not approved. <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">It also allows for suggestions/support for workshops by people who are not interested in organizing them, but in attending them</span></b>. Personally, I see this as an opportunity to ask for someone else to organize a workshop that I see as necessary to help me and the IG situation.</span></font></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks for bringing this up. We should be clear on this. I see the IGC role at this point as requesting/supporting certain workshops, not committing to developing them. Any other ideas on this? gp</span></font></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does the workshop fall under any of the five broad IGF Themes (Critical Internet Resources, Openness, Security, Access, Diversity) or under the cross-cutting priorities (development, capacity building)? If so which one? (Please select the most appropriate one.)</span></font><span lang="EN-US"></span></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Have you organized an IGF workshop before? If so, please provide the link to the report.</span></font><span lang="EN-US"></span></li>
<li dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Would you like to organize the workshop yourself?</span></font><span lang="EN-US"></span></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ms. Virginia (Ginger) Paque</span></font></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">De:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Milton L Mueller [mailto:<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>] <br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Enviado el:</span></b> Lunes, 23 de Marzo de 2009 09:56 a.m.<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Para:</span></b> '<a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>'<br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Asunto:</span></b> RE: [governance] Workshop on Remote Participation</span></font></p></div>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ginger, you're doing a great job of keeping track of the workshop discussions and of compiling the responses. Thanks for that. </span></font></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My problem at this stage is that I (and, I suspect, many others) are basically frozen in place by Bertrand's suggestion (statement?) that the method of workshop planning and development will be completely different this year. I am surprised that there has been no response to my expressed concerns about this, and until there is some clarification or discussion of those basic parameters, I think it is unwise to invest time in developing workshops. Indeed, I am not even sure I would plan to attend the IGF if certain worst-case scenarios play out. </span></font></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="blue" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have been told, in effect, "don't develop a detailed, coherent program for a workshop and don't line up any people, because whatever idea you have is going to be treated as a general "theme" and then thrown into a huge pot and re-sorted into MAG-defined groups." And those groups may be a bunch of people who hardly know each other with different, sometimes conflicting agendas. If I am not correctly apprehending the meaning of those changes please correct me. In the meantime, I await an appropriate response. </span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Milton Mueller<br>Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies<br>XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology<br>------------------------------<br>
Internet Governance Project:<br><a href="http://internetgovernance.org/" target="_blank">http://internetgovernance.org</a></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:21 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please post your interest and ideas concerning this workshop on this thread.</span></font></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Remote Participation from both the policy (inclusion) and application (practical) perspectives (Ginger)</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
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