<b>Dear Colleagues, </b><div><br></div><div>I request all those participating in the <b>IGF 2010</b> both physically or remotely to participate in our subject workshop and to share this message with as many participants as possible. I thank you in advance for your support and cooperation in helping us to make this IGC Open Discussion Space a success!</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Best, Fouad Bajwa<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div><div><b>IGF Workshop No. 54. Innovative Internet Governance Ideas and Approaches - An Open Discussion Space </b></div>
</div><div><div><div><b><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Thursday, 16 September at 9:00 - 11:00 in Room 6</span></span></span></b></div>
<div><b><span style="font-weight:normal">(I</span></b>GF Theme: Development) </div><div><br></div><div>This is an open space where you will be allowed to freely share your ideas and opinions about Internet Governance that can possibly help change the world we live in today. Link to the workshop information page:</div>
<div><b></b></div><div><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010View&wspid=54" style="color:rgb(64, 100, 128)" target="_blank">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010View&wspid=54</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Workshop Description:</b></div><div>A workshop that provides stakeholders the opportunity to share positive ideas for stimulating socio-economic change in the developing and developed world utilizing the Internet. This will be a venue for both developed and developing world participants. An example may be the ideas presented by Tim Berners-Lee at TED for Opening Data to the world that helped in providing concrete relief information on the ground during the Haiti earthquake crisis. Another idea may be Google's mapping of the Sudan crisis.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>With the participation of all stakeholders</b>, including youth, the workshop will record the many positive ideas that evolve from this venue, measure the changes that they have enabled over time, and at the next IGF meeting identify which ideas had the greatest impact over the past 12 months since presented.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>A round table open to all participants of the workshop.</b> The format will be 5 minutes given to each of the participants to share an existing or revolutionary idea. The Internet governance dimensions of each idea will also be explored. All the ideas will be recorded and categorized under various topics for measurement of impact over the following year.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>There will be no formal panellists.</b> All participants will be given 3-5 minutes to share an idea. The moderator will be Fouad Bajwa. Participants are listed on the wiki at <a href="http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/Open_space_for_Internet_governance_ideas" style="color:rgb(64, 100, 128)" target="_blank">http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/Open_space_for_Internet_governance_ideas</a>. This workshop was formerly titled "Revolutionary Internet Governance Ideas that can help change the Developing World". * Kindly let me know if you are participating so that we can arrange a list of participants before hand for record taking! If members from your organization or friends are participating, kindly inform them as well!</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>Organization:</b> Internet Governance Caucus</div><div><b>Contact Person:</b> Fouad Bajwa <a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(64, 100, 128)" target="_blank">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a> </div>
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