[governance] Themes for the coming IGFs

[Adam Peake]

Jeanette, Hi.

I agree with you, critical Internet resources should stay on the 
agenda, I think the discussion took a good direction this year. A 
number of people noted the CIR debate was a sign of the IGF maturing.

I was very surprised as the lack of civil society participation 
--particularly IGC and the bill of rights caucus-- in the open 
dialogue promoting cybersecurity and trust, it was the session for 
pushing rights.  Think there were perhaps 3 or 4 CS speakers during 
the whole afternoon 
<http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/hyderabad_prog/Open%20Dialogue.html>. 
The mics were open, what was the problem?

Adam



At 10:36 AM +0000 12/11/08, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we had quite a good discussion at the caucus meeting in Hyderabad 
>about possible topics for the next IGF. Parminder proposed a 'rights 
>based approach to IG' as an over-arching theme for the next IGF.
>
>I think should continue this discussion on this list since it would 
>be good if we could come up with proposals for topics at the next 
>public consultation in Geneva in February 2009.
>
>I am not sure though if we should focus on the over-arching theme 
>for the next IGF. In case you don't remember, the overall theme for 
>this year's IGF was "Internet for all". My impression is that these 
>over-arching themes don't matter that much, not only because they 
>tend to be shallow but more so because the underlying topics are too 
>diverse to reflect in any meaningful way the overall topic.
>
>We should focus on the themes for the main session instead. For 
>those who didn't follow closely, this year's themes were:
>
>        * Reaching the next billion;
>
>        * Promoting cyber-security and trust;
>
>        * Managing critical Internet resources;
>
>        * Taking stock and the way forward;
>
>        * Emerging issues - the Internet of tomorrow
>
>I heard several people saying that access related topics (reaching 
>the next billion) need a break as there is nothing new to discuss 
>next year.  Do others agree? What are other topics we want to see 
>discussed? In my view, critical Internet resources should stay on 
>the agenda.
>
>best, jeanette
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