[bestbits] Input on IGF 2014 format and main sessions

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 18 Mar 2014, at 2:24 am, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> Should there be 'main sessions' or focus sessions?  How many? One a day or only on the first day and the last day?
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> What should the format be of these sessions?
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> Should there be feeder workshops? Or Round Tables on a theme?
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> Should the MAG make an open call for policy questions around which these focus/main sessions can be built?
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> Looking at the main and sub themes for this year's IGF, on which topics do you feel main sessions/focus sessions are needed?

A single-paragraph answer based on http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission: yes there should be at least one main session (or focus session, the nomenclature doesn't matter), but we should try using it to reach rough consensus on high-level outputs/recommendations on policy questions.  They should be held in slots without any parallel workshops, to encourage the broadest cross-section of the IGF community to attend them - preferably towards the end of the IGF, following preparatory feeder workshops and/or roundtables.  A more deliberative working method is required for such a main session, for example as described at http://bestbits.net/igf-opinions/.  It would make sense to dedicate the main session to discussing implementation of the recommendations from NETmundial 2014.

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