[governance] preparing for IGF 2008

[Ray Plzak]

I agree, they all seemed more focused on panel participants and basically ignored the audience by restricting their participation by "time management". A simple problem statement by the chair with focused discussion points for topic management and not panel presentations would have been more effective and would have allowed more ideas to flow. Most workshops were definitely top-down in orientation and practice.

Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Bendrath [mailto:bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:03 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Adam Peake
> Subject: Re: [governance] preparing for IGF 2008
>
> Adam Peake schrieb:
> > Are the themes right? Should any be dropped, should any be added?
> To my understanding, there was a general feeling that the first "main
> themes" have been discussed enough, and that we need to focus on new
> ones.
> The emerging issues session for example showed that there is an
> increasing
> need to discuss anonymity, identification and privacy on the internet -
> I
> guess this would be a good new theme. Or the whole human rights theme,
> which as Max has emphazised could even be linked to tangible outcomes
> integrated by the Bill of Rights DC.
>
> I also have the feeling that people are getting sick of just sitting in
> a
> room and passively listening to powerpoint presentations for hours.
> This
> is not what you call "workshop" in natural language. Of all the events
> I
> was involved in, the Privacy Coalition meeting got the best feedback by
> far, because we had no presentations whatsoever, but instead asked
> people
> about their ideas and where they were willing to contribute and work
> with
> us. The result was a very engaged mix of discussing, brainstorming and
> volunteering - and this at 8:30 in the morning on the last day!
>
> Maybe this is my general sentiment: The IGF must focus on outcomes now
> (not necessarily stuff adopted in the plenary, but outcomes of
> workshops,
> coalitions, best practice collections, etc.), otherwise it will turn
> into
> just another conference. And I have the feeling that most people trust
> each other enough after two IGF meetings and numerous consultations
> that
> they really want to collaborate.
>
> Best, Ralf
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