[governance] IGC workshops

Mon Apr 21 16:17:40 EDT 2008

Hi Parminder,

On the role and mandate workshop:  Having done it last year, I don¹t think
it¹s right for me to do it again, and anyway I¹m in the jurisdiction group.
My suggestion would be that we get new blood involved, people who¹ve been
active in the caucus, have thought a lot about this, but can broker between
different tendencies etc.   Some obvious convener candidates like Willie,
Lee, others, come to mind if they¹d be interested...

It may be that part of what¹s holding people back is the prospect of a
complicated and time consuming process, but in reality, this really
shouldn¹t be too hard.  It¹s not necessary to renegotiate the ws description
from scratch and totally rethink the co-sponsors and speakers in the next
nine days.  Last year¹s event went well and everyone seemed to come away
fairly happy (including some parties that fretted about it in advance), so
we seemingly established a certain level of trust and understanding that the
event is useful and won¹t blow up the joint.  I assume the MAG would expect
to see a proposal for a v.2 from us (or more to the point, would be rather
surprised not to), and that we shouldn¹t have to re-convince them too
elaborately as long as we cross the T¹s and dot the I¹s in terms of being MS
with diverse views etc.  So why not resubmit largely the same text and reach
out to the more or less the same kinds of co-sponsors and non-CS speakers we
had last year (ICC/Ayesha, ISOC/Bill, developing country/India, developed
country/EC, etc), come up with three new IGC speakers with varying shades of
positions, submit whatever we have by April 30, and then add later as
needed.  

BTW, for reference, the report on last year¹s version of the ws is now at
http://intgovforum.org/Rio_event_report.php?mem=30.

Best,

Bill

On 4/21/08 4:57 PM, "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> Update on workshop proposals for IGF.
>  
> 1. Role and mandate of the IGF
>  
> Still looking for volunteers to convene and participate in WG. Karen and
> Baudouin Schombe have expressed interest to participate. Anyone ready to
> convene? . Someone from the group that did it last year? We have Bill and
> Vittorio from the last year¹s group (Karen has said no to convening, and I do
> not want to). If no one volunteers to convene in the next 24 hours, will one
> of you please take up the task? In any case participation from the last year¹s
> group will be good.
>  
> 2. Trans-boundary jurisdiction
>  
> The WG is working
>  
> 3. The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?¹
>  
> IGP/ Milton is going ahead with planning this. They have asked again if anyone
> from the IGC will like to participate and given suggestions.
>  
> 4. Rights based approach the Internet  Implications for IG
>  
> A draft is being developed.
>  
> As per the timeline given below, we will like to keep a draft for each
> proposal for comments of the group from 23rd to 26th, and if good ground to
> propose a consensus process is made out, it will be done over 27th  29th.
>  
> Since people are giving their valuable time to developing these proposals, it
> will be good if members who have any comments on these proposals, and the
> appropriateness of these being sponsored by the IGC, share them right away.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Parminder  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:26 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: RE: [governance] IGC workshops
>  
> Hi All
>  
> This is where we stand on our workshop proposals.
>  
> 1. Role and mandate of the IGF
>  
> The call is open for volunteers to convene and join this group. As Adam and
> others said this should be a very useful exercise of evaluating the IGF at the
> mid-point of its (expectedly, initial) 5 year life. We will need to build on
> the work that got done for this workshop last year. As you know, we did hold a
> workshop in the same topic last year and the proposal is that we make this a
> regular IGF feature.
>  
> Significantly, the IGF page listing the topic under which workshop proposals
> (http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm ) may be given says; ³Workshops
> on other issues relating to Internet governance and the mandate of the IGF are
> also welcome.² We seem to be already in. I think this is an important impact
> of IGC¹s first ever workshop on this topic last year, that it is now a part of
> the official list of themes for workshops.
>  
> 1. Trans-boundary jurisdiction issues
> A WG convened by Bret is developing this proposal.
>  
> 1. Internationalization
>  
> As proposed earlier, in this slot it will be useful to put in the IGP workshop
> proposal on The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?¹ Please see Milton¹s
> email of the 17th on this. Any IGC member who wishes to work with IGP group to
> develop/ influence this workshop proposal may write to Milton (and/or me), and
> can become a part of a WG.
>  
> 1. A rights based approach to the Internet  Implications for IG
>  
> Michael and Karen are co-coordinating a WG on this, and a proposal will soon
> be shared for discussion, as with other proposal. Anyone who wants to join
> this WG is welcome.
>  
> If we can have the proposals from the WGs by the 23rd we can discuss them in
> the IGC till the 26th and then put them for a consensus call. These need to be
> submitted by 30th. We should get as much information in as possible to fill in
> the workshop application form which lists the following questions.
>  
> 1. Name of proposed workshop
> 2. Provide a concise description of the proposed workshop theme including its
> importance and relevance to the IGF.
> 3. Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to
> invite. Describe the main actors in the field and whether you have you
> approached them about their willingness to participate in proposed workshop.
> 4. Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and their affiliation
> to various stakeholder groups. Describe how you will take steps to adhere to
> the multi-stakeholder principle, geographical diversity and gender balance.
> 5. Does the proposed workshop provide different perspectives on the issues
> under discussion?
> 6. Please explain how the workshop will address issues relating to Internet
> governance and describe how the workshop conforms with the Tunis Agenda in
> terms of substance and the mandate of the IGF.
> 7. List similar events you and/or any other IGF workshops you have organized
> in the past. 
> 8. Were you part of organizing a workshop last year? Which one? Did you submit
> a workshop report?
> 9. 9. Under which of the five IGF themes does the proposal fall under ?
>  
> The workshop proposal request says that at this stage we need to ³at least
> provide answers to questions # 1,2,4 and 9².See
> http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm
> <http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm>  . For answering question 9,
> please see the list of topics mentioned on this link, though workshops outside
> these topics can also be proposed.
>  
>  
> Thanks. Parminder
> 
>  

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