[governance] IGF conclusions

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> I've just heard from Markus that there is no way that anything discussed 
> or agreed in a workshop can get into the IGF's official conclusions, as 
> per a decision by the AG. Do our AG members confirm this?

This is not what I remember. What I remember from the AG's discussion is 
that there was no agreement on the actual status of workshops. The 
concern was raised by some AG members that workshop organizers could use 
the IGF branding and sell an outcome of one workshop as the actual 
outcome of the forum. Some suggested that the reporting should therefore 
be limited to the main session and not include the workshops. As a 
compromise the open mic session was created so that we have now both, 
official reporting from the main session and voluntary reporting from 
the workshop organizers or worshop participants.

 From what I remember this issue of the status of workshops within the 
framework of the overall forum was left open to some degree. I think 
this is good because it now depends on the attendees to lend political 
weight to the various session or workshop formats. Significance depends 
on what the participants actually do in terms of attendence, 
contributions etc.
> 
> As a workshop organizer, and as a participant who was not on any panel 
> and was never given the floor at any plenary session, 

I don't understand this comment. Do you mean you wanted to speak and you 
didn't get the opportunity? This I'd find surprising because my opinion 
has been that the moderators really tried to do get the audience 
involved. I had no problem to report from our workshop this morning. 
Neither had Parminder.

I'd find this
> quite troubling. I had 100 people in my workshop lively discussing for 
> 100 minutes - and it was a discussion, not like some workshops in which 
> panelists spoke for 85 minutes and then one 30 seconds comment was 
> allowed from the floor - and I would like to leave some trace of it into 
> the official summary.

There is the template Robin mentioned for collecting and archiving such 
traces.
> 
> I'm no fan of formal stuff, but still I'm troubled by the continued 
> restrictions of this IGF. 

Sorry but I really don't see these continued restrictions, and I don't 
find this a fair description of the overall structure and dynamics of 
the forum meeting.

jeanette

How can we actually get some input from the
> bottom into the final acts?


> 
> And, I hope that the final documents don't dare to include 
> "recommendations" that were never presented or discussed with anyone...
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