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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/01/13 16:33, Adam Peake wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Morning: 2 hours of panel or round table ("experts" + a listening audience)
Mid-day: Morning session closes with set of questions, challenges.
Audience encouraged (as they wish) to join in small groups
(self-organize) to discuss any/all issues raised. Use social media to
say where a group is, topics selected, language used, provide updates,
etc etc. 4 hours including lunch.
Afternoon: 2 hour plenary. Groups come back to main hall and
share/discuss (moderator act as facilitators,)
Rapporteurs might attempt to identify outcomes, report in to a session
on the last afternoon. Rapporteurs might be a small multi-stakeholder
team, or an individual.
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I responded to this on the workspace at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/archives/79">http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/archives/79</a> where I said that I
was not sure that relying on small groups to spontaneously
self-organise will work. Experience shows that more active
facilitation of the process is required. If it happens at all, then
it may end up as all the ISOC people together, all the Diplo people
together, all the Google people together... It is sometimes better
to force people to engage with each other so that they are exposed
to viewpoints that are outside of their comfort zones. This is one
reason why the Best Bits meeting worked well.<br>
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