Fwd: [Fwd: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF]

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Yes... agree. Looks good. And APC's offer to help organise working with 
Donny and with our members and partners in Indonesia still stands.

Anriette

On 14/03/2013 09:25, parminder wrote:
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>
> Thanks Jeremy and Andrew,
>
> This looks like a very well done and purposeful agenda/ work plan . ..
>
>
> parminder
>
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> Subject: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF
> From:    "Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> Date:    Thu, March 14, 2013 12:07 am
> To:      bestbits at lists.igcaucus.org
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>
>
> Hello all,
>
> This is to follow on from Andrew's summary of the informal Best Bits
> meeting in Paris.  If you can't find it, it is available in the web
> archives of this list at http://lists.igcaucus.org/arc/bestbits.
> (Thanks also to Deborah for forwarding the notice about the short
> deadline for IGF workshop proposals.)
>
> On the basis of suggestions and offers made so far, here is what we are
> proposing for Best Bits in 2013.  It follows from the discussions in
> Paris, but is just a rough outline and it is still open for your 
> comments:
>
>   * A two-day pre-IGF Best Bits meeting on the weekend of 19-20 October
>     in Bali, with an overall theme around a positive agenda for Internet
>     governance, which (like last time) will split into two very
>     practical agenda items, one of them substantive ("what we want"),
>     and the other procedural ("how we can get it"):
>       o Identifying common civil society strategies for advancing a
>         human rights Internet.  This can incorporate related initiatives
>         such as the IGF MAG's newly-established Internet principles
>         working group, and the "Web We Want" initiative that a number of
>         those from this list are involved with.
>       o A positive agenda for the evolution of Internet governance
>         arrangements.  This will tie in with the work of the CSTD
>         Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.  The output of this would
>         be a common civil society position on an enhanced cooperation
>         mechanism or process (perhaps IGF-based) that we could support.
>   * Two public IGF workshops that would present each of the two agenda
>     items above to a wider audience, and would include participation by
>     representatives of the other stakeholder groups.  Global Partners is
>     working on text for the workshop proposals, and will post them for
>     comment when ready.
>
> Meanwhile I am fundraising now to get some more travel funds for those
> who will need it, and indeed to broaden the funding base compared to
> last time.  The funds will also be used for a permanent website,
> including a rather sophisticated event calendar, which will begin as a
> rather less sophisticated event calendar, and grow features 
> progressively.
>
> If you have any comments on the above outline please share them. Thanks!
>

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