[bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF

[AHM Bazlur Rahman]

We support to organise *Internet social forum*
*from Bangladesh
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With best regards,


*Bazlu*
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On 15 March 2013 21:39, Andrew Puddephatt <Andrew at global-partners.co.uk>wrote:

> 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****
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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 :)
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> 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:
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> Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Agreed.
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> 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. ****
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> +1
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> Greetings,
> Norbert
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