[bestbits] Re: [governance] Input on IGF 2014 format and main sessions

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

If this is in relation to the main session, I beg to differ - many positive comments were received on that session. A majority of the contributors were developing country participants, not 'well meaning policy geeks' - and in the case of one from Indonesia, we (CCIA) arranged for his travel and expenses to be covered so he could attend at all as it seemed important to us that developing country voices should be heard from.

A tiny handful of us - almost entirely non-MAG - were left to our own devices in organising a main session. Candidly, MAG members ought to be glad someone took it on, since with the exception of Olga the rest mostly didn't even attend. 


On 18 Mar 2014, at 11:08, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> I think we saw in Bali that topics on current interests work well. Development, tried yet again, and not satisfactory yet again (if going to do such sessions it must include a majority of developing country participants, and contributors who are development experts rather than well meaning policy geeks.)

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