<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Some comments in italics interwoven:<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/24/10, 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;"><div id="yiv1002544772"><div><br></div><div><b>How best to link with regional meetings?</b><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;">The main issue that this question raises, as I see it, is whether there should be a stronger link between the regional meetings and the central one. If so, we need to consider and provide feedback on questions such as:</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><ul class="MailOutline"><li>What criteria should the regional/national IGFs satisfy in order to qualify for this stronger linkage? For example, how open and multi-stakeholder must they be, and how transparent and inclusive their organisation? <i>For the most part we should require transparency and openness so we may measure the credibility but not as a tool for exclusion.</i></li><li>If there should be a set of criteria that regional/national IGFs must meet, how and by whom should it be developed? <i>Open consultations on the most open and active list regarding IG -- Here</i></li><li>Should it be permitted to have more than one IGF per region or country, or should the global IGF enforce a rule that only one event per region or country can be officially recognised? <i>No - Res Ipsa
Loquitor</i></li><li>Should the programme of the regional/national IGFs be coordinated with that of the global IGF? If so, how? - perhaps through some sort of global council of IGFs? <i>Yes - openly formed and then mandated to set their own criteria and standards.</i></li><li>Should written reports of regional/national IGFs be distributed to the global IGF? <i>Of course - Why not -- we should be looking for input not claiming the lie of too much.</i></li><li>Should verbal reports from regional/national IGFs be given at a main session at the global IGF? <i>Only restriction should be if the impetus is there to try.</i></li><li>Should panelists from the other IGFs be given priority in selection for panels at the global IGF? <i>Priority is unnecessary - our field of choices is too narrow as it is.</i></li><li>Should each session organiser at the global IGF be required to give an opportunity for reports relevant to that session
from regional/national IGF organisers? <i>Mandated opportunity is more efficient than exercising discretion on each. -- My version of a Chair would obviate this need - while Jefsey's would need a strict process.</i></li></ul><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/351">http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/351</a>.</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;min-height:14px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">-- </div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0,
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