[bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF

[parminder]

On Friday 15 March 2013 02:02 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> Agreed.
>
> Furthermore, it is important to get civil society actors from outside
> the Internet governance community more involved. Maybe, in addition to
> addressing these matters at the Best Bits meeting in Bali, we need to
> think about organizing a pre-event in the spirit of Best Bits (but
> maybe with a different name corresponding to a less technology-centered
> focus) to an international event where the chances are optimal for
> effectively introducing the family of issues that you're thinking about
> into the mainstream of discourse of international policy shaping.

Something in the spirit of the 'world we want' and then proceed to 
discussing the 'web we want' for the 'world we want'.

We can invite participation from non IG global and sub global civil 
society bodies, most of whom do now have an interest to see how IG 
connects to their work (and most now believe that it does in some basic 
though largely unclear ways) . Maybe many of them want to come and join 
in, but there are no good enough and appropriate docking points made 
available to them, in a manner that look at things in a manner that they 
traditionally look at.

Such actors coming for such an event where they will get introduced to 
the world of IG can then also lead to a much needed more diverse 
participation in the IGF...


..  parminder

>
>> I think that we would be very remiss not to spend some time reviewing
>> these "IS" issues and strategizing on how to move these forward
>> alongside and particularly as part of the increasingly visible and
>> significant IG processes -- including within the IGF but also toward
>> WSIS +10 and beyond.
> +1
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>