[governance] Program for IGC at IGF

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi Bill, Avri etc,

I would recommend that we keep the agenda flexible and therefore a bit 
vague. We have no idea who and how many will show up and what specific 
interests they have. Lets keep it open to not bore or offend the 
"audience".

jeanette


William Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are now about a half dozen threads taking place under the same subject
> line, which makes things complicated.  This is a message about ' Program for
> IGC at IGF'.
> 
> Thanks Avri.  Couple of questions and comments.
> 
>> From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
>  
>> - Setting the context: WSIS, the IGC and how we got to the IGF (15
>> minutes)
>>      Presented by former IGC coordinators Adam and Jeanette
>> - Status of the IGC today (10 minutes)
>>      Presented by transition coordinator - Avri
>> - Update from MAG and SAG members on IGF AG activities (10 minutes)
>>      One or two of those nominated by the IGC
>> - Q&A with MAG/SAG members (20 minutes)
>>      Will try to get as may of them on stage for the Q&A
>> - Brief overview of CS organized workshops and the goals for the
>> workshops (2-5 minutes each)
>>      CS Workshop organizers
> 
> Personally, I'd rather we spent a bit less time listening to people brief us
> about the mAG process and workshops and spent more time talking together
> about the caucus---past, present, future.  This is not to say that the mAG
> process and workshops aren't interesting and listening to panelists isn't
> fun, but time is really scarce, probably people will want opportunities to
> speak (particularly as these seem to be in short supply elsewhere), and
> there are some fundamental questions that might get short shrift unless we
> make more space for dialogue on them.
> 
> For example, from the perspective of bringing newbies up to speed and
> reenergizing oldbies, it might be good under "Setting the context" to at
> least briefly overview some of the substantive positions the IGC took on key
> issues in documents submitted and interventions made during the WSIS and
> run-up to IGF, the internal problems we faced in terms of working methods,
> and to take stock of what was/wasn't accomplished in terms of impact, what
> worked or didn't.  In " Status of the IGC today," I'd think we want some
> time for people to discuss collectively how they see the role and utility of
> the caucus now (particularly given the differences between WSIS and IGF),
> what they'd want out of it, etc.  I can't see how we do that in a ten minute
> segment, a chunk of which would necessarily entail you describing the
> charter, voting, etc. Finally, it might be useful to have some space to
> discuss substantive issues and what if anything the caucus wishes to
> interject into the Athens discussion (the conversation on a position
> statement has trailed off....and it's not clear to me where we'd be able to
> do this in the program, given the 'audience' role) and what if anything we'd
> like to advocate vis IGF between now and Rio.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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