[governance] number of workshops and forums

[Max Senges]

hi jeanette and all

My 2 cents on workshop quality and quantity: i think the key criteria for
admittance should be the connection to INTERNET GOVERNANCE. I myself have a
broad definition and i think selection should be broad but here in Rio are
workshops about e.g. education, or e.g. intellectual property law , where
not even the attempt is made to connect it to internet governance.

If we do not want this innovative political body to become just another
conference we do need to be more focused and hence selective.

best
max


On Nov 14, 2007 1:55 PM, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:

> Hi, open slots are a feature. They meant for people to organize meetings
> spontaneously.
> Regarding poorly organized or attended workshops, I would be interested
> to hear how we could prevent that. My impression is that most people
> would in the meantime welcome a lower number of workshops. Assuming that
> the number of applications for workshops won't go down, this would mean
> that the selection criteria would have to be tightened. Fewer workshops
> could also conflict with the principle guiding the preparation of Athens
> and Rio, namely that if we have the space, we should not deny any
> workshop proposals. I would be interested in getting some feedback from
> attendees on how they see this issue.
> Tomorrow morning there will be a taking stock session. This could be one
> of the issues to be discussed there.
> jeanette
>
> Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> > Ian Peter ha scritto:
> >> Overall a disappointing involvement of CS and I wonder why this is so.
> >> Is European parliament irrelevant or are we just disorganized?
> >
> > I think we're just too busy, I strongly wanted to attend but I was
> > caught in the aftermath of our workshop.
> > In general, perhaps there are too many things going on at the same time?
> >  For example, the schedule does not take into account the fact that
> > people have to meet before workshops to prepare them, prepare reports
> > after them, etc... and then also move back and forth from hotels that
> > are 30-45 mins away, which doesn't encourage to be here from 8:30 to
> > 19:30. Since the IGF started, I barely managed to pop into a few
> > workshops for 15 minutes each, nothing more.
> > I'm possibly busier than usual and maybe there's nothing that can be
> > done about this, but each of us should take note of possible suggestions
> > for next year: I'm starting to note (or get reports of) several open
> > slots and poorly organized / poorly attended workshops, and perhaps
> > there could be less of them, but with a higher attendance and
> significance.
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