[governance] Themes for the coming IGFs

[Ralf Bendrath]

Adam Peake schrieb:
> 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 am surprised that nobody so far has mentioned pushing for a rights-based
approach to IG that was thoroughly discussed at the caucus meeting. As I
said there, I am a bit sceptical if it's a good idea to put human rights
up for discussion, but this probably depends on the framing. "Translating
and implementing human rights for IG" would go in the right direction.

> 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?

I can speak only for myself. I was at a parallel workshop for the first
half or so, and when I came to the plenary, I had the impression that the
whole debate had been hijacked by the "think of the children" faction.
That at least discouraged me from taking the mic.

A general point: If Nitin Desai sticks to his famous last words in
Hyderabad ("we have to move towards consensus" or so), the /format/ of the
main sessions will have to be different, too. Something in between
traditional text negotiations and just open mic. Any ideas here?

Best, Ralf
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