[Fwd: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF]

[Norbert Bollow]

Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> This looks like a very well done and purposeful agenda/ work plan . ..

+1

Greetings,
Norbert

> 
> 
> parminder
> 
> ---------------------------- Original Message
> ---------------------------- Subject: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting
> plans for the 2013 IGF From:    "Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Date:    Thu, March 14, 2013 12:07 am
> To:      bestbits at lists.igcaucus.org
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This is to follow on from Andrew's summary of the informal Best Bits
> meeting in Paris.  If you can't find it, it is available in the web
> archives of this list at http://lists.igcaucus.org/arc/bestbits.
> (Thanks also to Deborah for forwarding the notice about the short
> deadline for IGF workshop proposals.)
> 
> On the basis of suggestions and offers made so far, here is what we
> are proposing for Best Bits in 2013.  It follows from the discussions
> in Paris, but is just a rough outline and it is still open for your
> comments:
> 
>    * A two-day pre-IGF Best Bits meeting on the weekend of 19-20
> October in Bali, with an overall theme around a positive agenda for
> Internet governance, which (like last time) will split into two very
>      practical agenda items, one of them substantive ("what we want"),
>      and the other procedural ("how we can get it"):
>        o Identifying common civil society strategies for advancing a
>          human rights Internet.  This can incorporate related
> initiatives such as the IGF MAG's newly-established Internet
> principles working group, and the "Web We Want" initiative that a
> number of those from this list are involved with.
>        o A positive agenda for the evolution of Internet governance
>          arrangements.  This will tie in with the work of the CSTD
>          Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.  The output of this
> would be a common civil society position on an enhanced cooperation
>          mechanism or process (perhaps IGF-based) that we could
> support.
>    * Two public IGF workshops that would present each of the two
> agenda items above to a wider audience, and would include
> participation by representatives of the other stakeholder groups.
> Global Partners is working on text for the workshop proposals, and
> will post them for comment when ready.
> 
> Meanwhile I am fundraising now to get some more travel funds for those
> who will need it, and indeed to broaden the funding base compared to
> last time.  The funds will also be used for a permanent website,
> including a rather sophisticated event calendar, which will begin as a
> rather less sophisticated event calendar, and grow features
> progressively.
> 
> If you have any comments on the above outline please share them.
> Thanks!
>