[governance] IGC workshops

Wed Apr 23 05:04:30 EDT 2008

Ok, Parminder,

I will be online everyday in Campus Numérique Francophone de Kinshasa.

Baudouin

2008/4/22 Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:

>  Bill, Thanks for the clarifications.
>
>
>
> We urgently need someone to take this work up. Adam, you had shown some
> interest in making this a mid-term review of the IGF. Or you Vittorio, you
> can bring some continuity for the last years group. Lee? Willie?. Anyone
> else.
>
>
>
> We already have three members – Karen, Baudouin and Jeremy - ready to be
> in the WG. Need a convener. I assure anyone who takes this job up that it
> will quite fulfilling J, and not too taxing, as Bill explained.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Parminder
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>
> *From:* William Drake [mailto:william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:48 AM
> *To:* Governance
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] IGC workshops
>
>
>
> Hi Parminder,
>
> On the role and mandate workshop:  Having done it last year, I don't think
> it's right for me to do it again, and anyway I'm in the jurisdiction group.
>  My suggestion would be that we get new blood involved, people who've 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 they'd be interested...
>
> It may be that part of what's holding people back is the prospect of a
> complicated and time consuming process, but in reality, this really
> shouldn't be too hard.  It's not necessary to renegotiate the ws description
> from scratch and totally rethink the co-sponsors and speakers in the next
> nine days.  Last year's 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 won't 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 shouldn't have to re-convince them too
> elaborately as long as we cross the T's and dot the I's 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 year's 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 year's 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
> year's group will be good.
>
> 2. Trans-boundary jurisdiction
>
> The WG is working
>
> 3. 'The Future of ICANN: After the JPA, What?'
>
> 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]<parminder at itforchange.net%5d>
> *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; "Workshops on other issues relating to Internet governance and the
> mandate of the IGF are also welcome." We seem to be already in. I think this
> is an important impact of IGC's 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?' Please see
> Milton's 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 "at least
> provide answers to questions # 1,2,4 and 9".See* **
> http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm
> <http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm><http://www.intgovforum.org/workshop_info.htm> .
> F*or 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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