[bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear All,

As I've mentioned to a few people privately, you should look a the World We Want process - here, and the civil-society-specific part here - which is based around post-2015 MDG followup. There's an obvious opportunity to get the Internet community more engaged in that process as there is vice-versa.

Right now IG and post-2015 MDGs are really disconnected. Given the obvious opportunity to leverage ICTs to deliver real value in that process, this seems like something civil society should care very much about changing.


On 15 Mar 2013, at 10:01, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

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> I know I am getting increasingly and perhaps unsustainable ambitious, but maybe we can hold an 'Internet social forum' and then proceed to more focussed strategising in the bestbits meeting. 
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> I think a core/ real civil society in the Internet area needs to be recovered from the unclear ambiguous gooey mass that what goes for the IG civil society has increasingly become....
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> Perhaps just being too radical (and a bit modernist in a highly post modernist Internet world), which is not a bad thing to do once in a while :)
> 
> parminder 
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> On Friday 15 March 2013 02:17 PM, parminder wrote:
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>> 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. 
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>> Something in the spirit of the 'world we want' and then proceed to discussing the 'web we want' for the 'world we want'. 
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>> 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. 
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>> 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... 
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>> ..  parminder 
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>>>> 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 
>>> 
>>> 
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