[governance] Getting back to themes - How do we rank what we have so far ... ?

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

I agree with Ralf,

1) The request from N. Desai should probably be understood as limiting *
individuals* to submit a max of 3 themes, not groups of 200+ people like the
caucus. this does not prevent people from expressing support for one theme
or the other.

2) I suggested during the consultations that the themes suggested to the
secretariat be posted on the IGF site to allow for a round of comments
during the month of April, or in any case before the May meeting. It will be
the role of the MAG to review the proposals, and the subsequent comments
(including proposals for modifying the title of the theme or the angle to
address it) and establish a proposal for the final list of themes for
Athens.

3) the open consultations in May will aslo be an occasion for exchange on
the list of themes and I expect the list to be finalised only at the end of
the meeting, or immediately afterwards.

Best

Bertrand



On 3/28/06, Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Robert Guerra wrote:
> > Getting to the broader question of themes, I do want to remind people
> > that Desai in the Feb consultation was quite specific in asking the 12
> > or so items be short listed to 2-3.
> This does not by any means imply civil society should agree on two or
> three items and drop the others. The IGF website tells everybody who
> visits it:
> "Please send us your top three choices giving a short explanation on the
> reasons for your choices to igf at unog.ch by 31 March 2006."
>
> As I understand it, the MAG will have to do the selection in the end, or
> at least recommend one.
>
> Of course it can help if CS entities come up with two to three issues. The
> Privacy and Security Working Group is currently in the process of doing
> this. This of course does not preclude others from submitting other
> themes.
>
> The fact that the IGC is kind of a CS plenary for all aspects of IG should
> make it very difficult to agree on a selection or even ranking here, I
> guess.
>
> Best, Ralf
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