SV: [governance] Main sessions @ IGF

[Kicki Nordström]

Dear all,

I agree on this, but need to add that 650 Millions of Persons with disabilities also belong to the target group  of need of ICT! For many of us, communication needs are the only disabling conditions, for example for blind, deafblind or deaf people! 

Warm regards
Kicki


Kicki Nordström
World Blind Union (WBU)
Immediate Past  President
Chair, WBU Working Group on UN Issues
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Från: Vittorio Bertola [mailto:vb at bertola.eu.org] 
Skickat: den 17 oktober 2006 18:07
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Adam Peake
Ämne: [governance] Main sessions @ IGF

Adam Peake ha scritto:
> Arranging panelists for the main sessions is ongoing.  Finding a 
> balance from among people known to be attending is not easy. (Has to 
> be from people known to be going, the secretariat has no cash to bring 
> anyone.)

I thought the question might be of interest to everyone: how are these sessions organized? A set of panelists picked by the AG, and then open discussion from the floor? Will there be a Chair's summary of the session? Should positions be in writing? Presented in advance?

How does the average participant raise his/her own issues and gets them addressed, or at least reflected in the final summary of the IGF? From the floor? Or by finding a panelist that can mention them? Or - to be practical ;) - by lobbying the Secretariat?

Sorry for the abundance of ?'s, I know this is a work in progress... but I'd hate to have been waiting for one year, come to Athens with a couple of "urgent issues that are not being dealt with elsewhere", and then fail to get them at least recorded in the proceedings, if not discussed. 
I think that civil society should at least have a way to flag issues for subsequent work in "dynamic coalitions".
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