Summary of ways to participate in Best Bits
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Tue Oct 16 06:51:31 EDT 2012
On Tuesday 16 October 2012 12:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> I am cutting and pasting here from an off-list email summarising the
> opportunities that still exist for you to participate in Best Bits,
> since I thought that information might be useful to others too.
>
> * To distribute ownership of the event more widely, the moderators
> of each session are now responsible for finding volunteers to
> contribute to that session (as panelists, discussants, etc, as
> they choose). So please take a look at
> http://bestbits.igf-online.net/agenda/ and decide which session/s
> you'd like to contribute to. I can then put you in touch with the
> moderator, or you can contact them directly.
> * Please upload any documents that you'd like the other participants
> to use as resources to the page
> http://bestbits.igf-online.net/background-papers/, by this
> Friday. Instructions on how to do so are there. Andrew Puddephatt
> will be compiling them together into a briefing pack, and writing
> an introductory paper. If you have difficulty uploading, let me know.
>
I did a paper on dev agenda in IG last year which is at
http://www.itforchange.net/sites/default/files/ITfC/%20%20Dev%20agenda%20in%20IG%20200412.pdf
. It speaks about global pubic policy issues and institutional options.
Best, parminder
>
> *
> * As for the "zero draft" output documents, these have been slower
> to come together than anticipated, however we deliberately have
> several hours to work on them during the event itself. As things
> stand we do not have draft text, so by all means, please post your
> ideas to the list.
> o For the ITU statement, William Drake is facilitating it and is
> proposing a text focusing on substantive issues, which will be
> submitted to the ITU public comment process on 3 November.
> o For the Internet governance principles, Wolfgang
> Kleinwächter's current proposal is that we use the existing
> text that APC and others worked on for the Council of Europe,
> which is this one: http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199.
>
> In addition:
>
> * If you have been offered funding for your hotel stay during Best
> Bits, please reply to confirm whether you will be needing this,
> and whether you will be staying at the Days Hotel (in which case
> we can pay the hotel directly for those nights) or elsewhere.
> * If you will be attending Best Bits in person but have not yet
> re-confirmed your registration by completing the form at
> http://bestbits.igf-online.net/registration/, please take one
> minute now do do that.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> *Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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