[governance] Updated draft agenda for igc at igf

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Mon Oct 23 05:35:29 EDT 2006


>Avri, Hi, I'd like you to withdraw that request for a room on the final day.


hold on... don't withdraw it, make it provisional.  (or someone else 
will grab it.)

Thanks,

Adam



>At the moment the three workshop are rooms are free at lunch on 
>Thursday November 2nd. Other than the opening day, this is only time 
>when large space is available.  If different stakeholder groups 
>start asking for rooms, there won't be space left for other things.
>
>I think we would be better trying to get people together, all 
>stakeholders, to discuss workshops (and panels and GigaNet for that 
>matter) and to try and build momentum for ongoing discussion around 
>those.
>
>The purpose of IGF is multi-stakeholder policy dialogue.  Right now 
>we are a week away from a 4 day conference that as someone suggested 
>looks a bit like INET... not a bad achievement in itself in 5 
>months, but not what IGF is meant to be about.  There is no 
>mechanism identified for starting and maintaining dialogue between 
>Athens and Brazil.  Right now it's pretty much conference as normal.
>
>Be great for the caucus to be able to take stock and see where we're 
>going after Athens, but I think we'd be better spending this only 
>free time trying to push multi-stakeholder dialogue rather than 
>talking among ourselves (with private sector in another room and 
>government in another.)
>
>If it were up to me, I'd offer space in these rooms to any workshop 
>organizer (there will be about 30 separate workshops in all.) 
>They'd have a few tables and chairs set apart from others in the 
>room so people who were interested in their workshop could drop by 
>and chat about next steps.  We need to start thinking of ways to use 
>Athens to spark an ongoing dialogue.  This is the best I can come up 
>with.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam
>
>
>
>
>At 9:40 AM +0200 10/23/06, Avri Doria wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>given some of the comments made on the previous draft agenda, i 
>>have modified it to include a moderated discussion on the issues of 
>>interest and priority to participants instead of the workshop 
>>overview.  since she suggested it, i have asked Karen to moderate 
>>this part of the session.  i assume that participants can collect 
>>their own information on the agenda.  i have no personal plan to 
>>create a compendium of workshop info and don't know if anyone else 
>>is planning to do so.
>>
>>the latest draft agenda can be found at:
>>
>>http://www.igcaucus.org/agenda-igc-at-igf.html
>>
>>as always, i welcome comments for further amendments. thanks for 
>>the comments so far.
>>
>>BTW, i don't know if we will get it, but i have requested another 
>>session for lunch during the last day (2 Nov) to allow the IGC to 
>>talk about where we go in the next year.  Recommendations for the 
>>agenda are welcome, i have not gotten much further than: discussion 
>>on plans for 2007.
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>
>>a.
>>
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