[bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF

[Andrew Puddephatt]

Interesting idea Parminder - how could we make it work?

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From: bestbits-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of parminder
Sent: 15 March 2013 09:01
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Subject: Re: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF



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.

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....

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

On Friday 15 March 2013 02:17 PM, parminder wrote:

On Friday 15 March 2013 02:02 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:

Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com><mailto: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




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