[bestbits] Programme for Best Bits annual meeting

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Thanks for the good suggestions, including a couple that have come off-list.

To respond to a couple of those, it was suggested that we could have
parallel sessions.  This was how we originally had last year's draft
programme too, but it turned out not to be manageable because some
people strongly wanted to contribute to both streams.  So I feel that
although it's an easy solution, it's perhaps not the best one.

The other question is whether ITU be featured or whether it be part of a
broader treatment of the WSIS+10 review process, and that surveillance
should become more of a headline topic.  As the latest mail from Joana
indicates, there are still issues for us to address at the ITU so I
don't think that removing it from the agenda is necessary, nor that this
has been suggested.

So I think that the comments can be taken on board by moving
surveillance into the prime time slot (morning of the second day), and
broadening the topic of the ITU session to include the WSIS+10 review
process and civil society's participation in that.  For example, the
supposed Multistakeholder Preparatory Platform (MPP) for WSIS+10 has
been anything but, so far.

Can we proceed along those lines?  The other question is, are there any
outputs that we want to produce from these two sessions?  From the first
day's session we have some pretty clear deliverables to work on (even
though there is much work yet to do towards them), but what about the
surveillance and ITU/WSIS+10 sessions?

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