[governance] Themes for the coming IGFs

[Natasha Primo]

Hi,

On 11 Dec 2008, at 1:55 PM, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

>
>>> 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.
>
> Not my impression. I found the debate rather unstructured and  
> shifting randomly between topics. One of the few substantial  
> contributions came from Casper Bowden who spoke against the popular  
> dichotomy between privacy and security.

And again it points to idea that using broadcasters - though they do  
come free of charge - may not be the best approach to stimulate  
relevant and structured debate.

On Day 1 the co-moderators ended up facilitating the session because  
the broadcaster/chief moderator was un(der)-prepared, and on Day 2 it  
was unstructured and the co-moderators were stuck on a podium.  In a  
3rd iteration of the format - no WBA broadcaster and both moderators  
on the same level as the rest of the participants - Jeanette and Chris  
Disbain pulled off a more structured and substantive dialogue  ... not  
that the technical community didn't manage to contradict one another :-)

Natasha

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Association for Progressive Communications
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