[governance] space on Nov.11th

Parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Tue Sep 25 01:17:59 EDT 2007


Carlos/ Bill

Yes, we need to meet as IGC before IGF starts - for exchanging notes on IGF
participation and strategies, and also because IGC as mostly a virtual group
should have this annual meeting which is best done at the IGF meetings.

The issue is of the timing. Giganet will have many IGC members participating
in it. So we have to figure out how late in the afternoon/ evening we can
meet. 

Bill, I know you have told me this before, but when does giganet end. 5 PM?

Those who are going to be at rio can give their views when it is best to
schedule the meeting on the 11th late afternoon/ evening.

I think there are two choices

1) to begin the meeting immediately after giganet - ie is 5 Pm I think, and
we can go upto 730 or so. 

2) to begin it at 4 PM and then giganet participants join in.

The choice will depend on the numbers at giganet, and those not at giganet.

To me, immediately post giganet looks fine. And we can extract an assurance
from giganet that they will close right on time, keeping in mind the IGC
`meeting.

Carlos, thanks for booking the room, we will in any case need it. So, pl
keep the booking on.

Parminder 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Afonso [mailto:ca at rits.org.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:01 AM
> To: William Drake
> Cc: Governance
> Subject: Re: [governance] space on Nov.11th
> 
> Hi Bill and all,
> 
> No need to change plans. What we did was just to make sure there is a
> room available. We will do the Latin American/Caribbean event in the
> morning anyway, and the room is available for the whole afternoon. Up to
> the caucus to decide how to use it, if at all.
> 
> Otherwise, I can just let the organizers know that the room will no
> longer be needed. Parminder?
> 
> []s frts
> 
> --c.a.
> 
> William Drake wrote:
> > Hi Carlos,
> >
> > Last I heard, a) we were trying to minimize scheduling conflict with
> GigaNet
> > by you doing the local thing in the afternoon (after 3pm I'd thought),
> and
> > in consequence, b) we were going to have a caucus meeting after GigaNet
> was
> > over, in the same room.  Parminder may have already asked Markus for the
> > latter space, not sure.  So why would we now be changing the plan in a
> > manner that cannot work for a bunch of us?
> >
> > Confused,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On 9/24/07 5:47 PM, "Carlos Afonso" <ca at rits.org.br> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear people,
> >>
> >> As previously mentioned, the local organizers have secured a 200-people
> >> room for civil society's meetings on the 11th at the IGF venue.
> >>
> >> The Brazilian CS IG caucus is proposing the morning of the 11th would
> be
> >> used for an "information synchronization" session among Latin American
> >> and Caribbean reps present coming to the IGF.
> >>
> >> The afternoon would be open for the international IG caucus to use. In
> >> this way we would reduce the time conflict with the giganet meeting.
> >>
> >> *So, let us discuss how to better use this space* -- a good opportunity
> >> to "fine-tune" arguments before the IGF itself starts.
> >>
> >> The room will be used on the 10th by APC to lead an open forum on
> access.
> >>
> >> Please note that on the 10th the venue will still be out of UN
> >> jurisdiction, but from Nov.11th on everybody will enter the venue only
> >> with registration and UN badge.
> >>
> >> --c.a.
> >
> > ***********************************************************
> > William J. Drake  drake at hei.unige.ch
> > Director, Project on the Information
> >   Revolution and Global Governance/PSIO
> >   Graduate Institute for International Studies
> >   Geneva, Switzerland
> > http://hei.unige.ch/psio/researchprojects/Drake.html
> > ***********************************************************
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> 
> Carlos A. Afonso
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