[bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF

[michael gurstein]

It might be worth a try. I've had some very very preliminary discussions
here in Vancouver with some environmental groups (coalitions of groups)
concerning this (Vancouver is a hotspot for these groups).  If there was a
specific focal point event that we could promote to these groups it might
motivate them to begin paying attention.

 

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Interesting idea Parminder - how could we make it work?

 

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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. 

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  <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com> <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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