[governance] Speakers for IGF - new faces?

[veni markovski]

Adam and all,
At ISOC-Bulgaria, we are trying to send some new people to the IGF. 
While we can't define names today, there are chances, that you may be 
able to see some Bulgarians in Rio.

We have been able to contribute with a workshop on CIR, organized 
together with the World bank, GIPI, CDT and others - 
http://info.intgovforum.org/yoppy.php?poj=37.
We are also working on bringing some of our members to the Best 
Practices Forum (http://intgovforum.org/BPP.php); as some of you may 
know, the current President, the current Prime Minister, and the 
Minister of ICT (chairman of the State Agency for ICT) are all 
members of ISOC.


Best,
Veni

P.S. I think one of the main problems that we are facing, is that at 
every event for years now we see the same people. I personally plan 
not to go to Rio. ISOC-Bulgaria has also other skilled people who can 
participate, and I will try to help them get there. It would be good 
to see if my initiative will be followed by others. By the way, I 
gave such an example some time ago when I resigned from the Advisory 
Group to the IGF, after I felt I've done my duty there with serving 
for more than one year.

v.

At 18:28 9/16/2007  +0900, you wrote:
>Here are some ideas for speakers. There's of course an element of my 
>personal preference, but I've also been asking a few others for 
>suggestions about names for a while.
>
>I've mentioned when I remember if someone was a panelist in Athens. 
>But, we should consider:
>
>There will be 5-7 people on panels, it's a 2000 seat room and last 
>we heard about attendance the room is likely to be full.  An open 
>format, whoever is selected is going to have to be expert on a broad 
>range of topics related to the theme, and a confident speaker able 
>to respond to (potentially) a stream of questions. We have no money 
>to bring anyone, the meeting starts in 8 weeks.  Suggest only 
>recommending people who are going to be there (or have a very good 
>chance of being there.)
>
>So we need experts, who will be in Rio, and gender and geographic 
>diversity. And the list below is very bad on Gender. There are two 
>or three people I know of who would be great to add to the list but 
>need to confirm if they will be in Rio or are willing to speak.
>
>Please, let's not suggest a name unless we know they will be in Rio, 
>or, at least you have already started to find out.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam
>
>
>Opening Ceremony
>
>Monthian Buntan (Thailand). President, Thailand Association of the Blind.
>
>Anriette Esterhuysen (was a panelist in Athens)
>
>Delphine Nana
>
>
>Critical Internet Resources
>
>Milton Mueller (USA). Professor, Director, Master of Science in 
>Telecommunications and Network Management, Syracuse University.
>
>
>Access
>
>Mike Jensen (South Africa), independent consultant with experience 
>in more than 30 countries in Africa assisting in the establishment 
>of information and communications systems over the last 15 years. 
><http://www.acacia.org.za/mike_jensen.htm> (*strong preference*)
>
>Sean o Siochru (Ireland). Access and financing.
>
>
>Diversity
>
>Monthian Buntan (Thailand). President, Thailand Association of the 
>Blind. (*strong preference*)
>
>Ronaldo Lemos (Brazil). Digital culture, Creative Commons.
>
>Anriette Esterhuysen (was a panelist in Athens)
>
>(I think Adama Samassekou from Mali might be picked up -- he is 
>president of the African Academy of Languages. Was a panelist in Athens.)
>
>
>Openness
>
>Sisule Musungu (Kenya). Policy analyst based in Geneva, consults on 
>intellectual property and free expression issues. (*strong preference*)
>
>Georg Greve (Germany). Free Software Foundation Europe 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_C._F._Greve> (was a panelist in Athens)
>
>Michael Geist (Canada)
>
>Pedro Paranagua Moniz (Brazil) Professor of Law at Fundacao Getulio 
>Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, A2K Brazil.
>
>
>Security
>
>Ralf Bendrath (Germany). University of Bremen, The Collaborative 
>Research Center (Dynamic Coalition on Privacy)
>
>Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza (Brazil). A2K Brazil, lawyer privacy issues.
>
>Thiago Tavares Nunes de Oliveira (Brazil). Head of SaferNet Brazil: 
>cybercrime and privacy issues.
>
>(Security is difficult, I think we need someone who can speak to 
>civil society issues around privacy and rights, but also be able to 
>respond well on security, which I think will be the main bulk of the 
>session. Carlos Afonso can comment more on the two Brazilian people.)
>
>
>Taking Stock and the way forward
>
>William Drake, Director, Project on the Information Revolution and 
>Global Governance Graduate Institute for International Studies 
>Geneva, Switzerland.
>
>
>Emerging Issues
>
>No definite suggestion.  I am trying to find out if Mark 
>Shuttleworth can attend.   South Africa, Internet security 
>entrepreneur and Ubuntu supporter 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth>
>
>(Some stakeholders are suggesting "emerging issues" should be a very 
>forward looking session, young entrepreneurs would be interesting, 
>futurists etc. Thoughts?)
>
>
>END

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