[governance] Effective participation ....

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
> Jeffrey, are you referring to the Internet Governance Forum or to this 
> list? In any case, my guess is that in both activities too many 
> organizations are involved for a "brief primer" :-) I'd suggest you have 
> a look at the forum's website for a start: http://www.intgovforum.org/

The IGF's Web site is quite poor, though.  There is little information 
there about the process by which it came into being, who is directing 
it, by what authority, who are the other stakeholders involved, what its 
aims are, and until two days ago, what the programme of its first 
meeting will be.  The chronology of the IGF is particularly difficult to 
piece together given that items on its home page are in no particular 
order, and there is nowhere where updates to the site are listed (not 
even its RSS feed).

Kieran McCarthy and I are working on a site that will (note: future 
tense, there's not much there yet) offer a better introduction to the 
IGF, at http://www.igf2006.info/cms, as well as providing a variety of 
means for remote participation by those who can't make it to Athens. 
For somewhat critical commentary on the IGF and a very brief 
introduction to it, there's also my IGFWatch site at http://igfwatch.org/.

For broader coverage of IG institutions, the Net Dialogue site at 
http://www.netdialogue.org/ could be useful, though it's a little out of 
date.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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