<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I look at the process and I have to wonder if maybe the concept is not named properly. It appears to be more of a "closed consultation" system.<div><br></div><div>Without a strong online global presence it is simply open to invitation. The physical procedural aspects are all normal. The inclusvity* is nonexistent.</div><div><br></div><div>I ask a simple question, answers to which will either prove or disprove my contention.</div><div><br></div><div>How would I get an issue and be invited to present that issue to the MAG?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>*How has society progressed so that in most "dictionary" this is not a word yet "exclusivity" is a very prominent word -- Does the linguistic emphasis reflect our attitudes?<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/17/10, Jeremy Malcolm <i><jeremy@ciroap.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><br>Subject: [governance] [4 of 6] How best to organize open consultations?<br>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 2:57 PM<br><br><div id="yiv427574032">Moving on to the next question in the MAG questionnaire on reforms to the IGF (and thanks for the valuable contributions so far), we come to the question:<div><br></div><div><b>How best to organize open consultations?</b></div><div><br></div><div>The IGF"s open consultation meetings continue a tradition dating back from the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Held in Geneva, their purpose is to provide an open forum for discussion of themes and processes for the annual meeting. The ideas put forward during the open consultation meeting (and in written contributions made beforehand) are taken as input into the MAG meeting
that follows, where decisions on them (or recommendations for decisions) are made.</div><div><br></div><div>Issues that we might address in our comments on this question could include:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Should the consultation meetings continue to be held in Geneva, with remote participation from elsewhere, or could they be held elsewhere, with remote participation from Geneva?</li><li>Should the meeting be made more deliberative than its present moderated roundtable format? There are many specific options, but for example, the meeting could split into table groups to discuss and synthesize specific proposals, and a whiteboard (real or virtual) could be used to visually represent and group proposals.</li><li>Should a more focussed use of online processes be used in planning for the IGF? Quite apart from remote participation, should there be better use of a central mailing list and/or wiki for preparatory
purposes?</li><li>What groups are currently effectively excluded from the open consultation meetings, and what can be done to include them more effectively?</li></ul><div><br></div><div>Thoughts on these or any other issues relating to the organisation of the open consultation meetings are welcome.</div><div>
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