Totally agree, Graciela. Sometimes it seems that workshop organizers are doing a favor in organizing workshops, therefore they should not be let down and face the refusal of their workshop proposals. This has led to the merge of workshops that had very little in common and ended up with ten, twelve spekers that could talk during 5 minutes. This is totally contraproducive.<br>
<br>There is no favor in organizing workshops. It is an opportunity to promote meaningful debate, that should be enough. It is also a responsibility, and workshop organizers need to be efficient and accountable.<br><br>Best,<br>
<br>Marília<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Graciela Selaimen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graciela@nupef.org.br">graciela@nupef.org.br</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for the feedback, Jeannette. I wasn't in Vilnius, unfortunately.<br>
Your comment on the disappointment with the workshops' reports makes me think that it's important to reflect not only how workshops are organized but also why they are held. Perhaps it's time to think of a way to give more meaning to workshops in the IGF and to expect more commitment from workshop organizers in formulating concrete messages as an outcome of these events - not only formal, bureaucratic reports.<br>
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graciela<br>
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Em 1/26/11 3:51 PM, Jeanette Hofmann escreveu:<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Am 26.01.2011 13:18, schrieb Graciela Selaimen:<br>
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Hi, Wolfganfg and all,<br>
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I am aware that this will trigger a debate about the nomination of<br>
chairs or rapporteurs. However the message from a workshop could be<br>
"one group says so and the other group says so". The message in this<br>
case would be: This is an important issue, but there is no agreement.<br>
And if you have 60 workshops you would have 60 rapporteurs (with about<br>
150 messages) which guarantees to a certain degree diversity and a<br>
fair reflection of all positions.<br>
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This is why I think it would be interesting to have the workshops in the<br>
two first days of the meeting. Their messages could be the main input<br>
for the plenary sessions; the moderators of the main sessions would have<br>
to work together with rapporteurs of the workshops in order to focus the<br>
sessions on the presentation and discussion of the messages and this<br>
would make these sessions really linked to the workshops - something<br>
that we've been highlighting as desirable for years...<br>
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That is exactly what we did at the Vilnius meeting. For critical Internet resources, workshops were scheduled for the first day so that they would take place before the main session. Personally, I didn't find the result convincing. So far, our experience with reporting from workshop have been somewhat disappointing. I don't know exactly why. Perhaps the summaries lacked a bit of the excitement we were hoping for :-)<br>
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jeanette<br>
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my 2 cents,<br>
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graciela<br>
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