[governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?

Thu Jul 24 11:13:14 EDT 2008

Hello All,

I want to expand it a little more.  I have come across comments in this and
other lists related to the diversity of participation at the IGFs.

One reason why the IGF is not inclusive is that the debates so far are
largely confined to a technical and policy making elite. It is very positive
to see so many eminent professionals taking part in the debates and the
policy making process, but Internet is huge and it is more international
than any thing that ever happened on earth. It requires greater
participation in debates, requires to consider more diverse view points.

Can we think of levels or layers of participation? A list like this could
continue to be of the same caliber of subscribers, an official website such
as intgovfourm.org can be more of an administrative interface, but the new
IGF website could be a multi-level or a multi-layered web

- a level/layer in the nature of an ORKUT or a facebook as a 'general' dmz
level for exposure of the issues to the non-technical common man,

-  another level/layer in the nature of LinkedIn Answers or Yahoo Answers as
a 'participate' level

and

- deeper level/layer in the nature of the present CPSR list as a
'policy-making' level

This would be a combined web, where it should be possible for anyone (in
total, hundreds of thousands of members) to move his way up. At each level
the members would observe the self-regulatory conventions and etiquettes of
the level.

Each layer would have features suitable for the visitors/subscribers of the
layer. For instance Aaron Agien Nyangkwe's suggestion of "Quote for the Day"
would be in the nature of an easy to view and understand "story" at the
'general' level for the common man to understand something new about the
Internet / Internet Governance. At the CPSR level, it could be a salient
comment related to policy-making drawn from the discussions in the CPSR
list.

There can be various models and we can think deeper to come up with a site
architecture and content design.

Thank you
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

>  Actually I think it is good if it is done in an ad hoc, self-organized
> way, as much as possible.
>
> Lee
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Goldstein [mailto:goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au<goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
> ]
> Sent: Thu 7/24/2008 10:19 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?
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> While some/all/most of these suggestions are quite good, one must keep in
> mind who is going to have the time to update and manage the site, and even
> to create the content. It's no good saying we will do x and y and z, and
> then finding it's done in an ad hoc manner, or not even at all.
>
> David
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu>
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <
> nyangkweagien at gmail.com>; governance at lists.cpsr.org; Sivasubramanian
> Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, 25 July, 2008 12:02:34 AM
> Subject: RE: [governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?
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> RE: [governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?
> it should be easy for different linguistic communities, if they so chose,
> to build and maintain their own versions, with a 'click here' button at the
> top for Chinese or Spanish or whatever
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nyangkwe Agien Aaron [mailto:nyangkweagien at gmail.com<nyangkweagien at gmail.com>
> ]
> Sent: Thu 7/24/2008 6:32 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> Subject: Re: [governance] What do you guys want in a IGF website?
>
> Hello
>
> Sivasubramanian's proposals are exhaustive.
> And I'll add that we include a "Quote of the Day" in which the forum
> administrators highlight a landmark statement made by a participant of
> the Forum during the a day. This alone can incite more visits to the
> site as well.
>
> Aaron
>
> On 7/24/08, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > The IGF website needs to be designed for the common man who has no idea
> of
> > what IGF is all about. It needs to have basic introductory information
> about
> > IGF, about previous IGFs, the forthcoming IGFs and about ways of
> > participating in the IGF.
> >
> > It should have an easy to work around Web 2.0 interface with
> collaborative
> > tools to connect for the expert user. It can have a column for the IGF
> > secreatriate to make annoncements, pages where contact and procedural
> > information pertaining to proposals, participation, fellowships etc are
> > posted in an uncluttered format. It needs to include the discussion
> forums
> > etc. as in intgovforum.org or at least a page with links to the existing
> > forums.
> >
> > The intgovfourm.org has a "technie" look and feel, the new IGF wesbite
> needs
> > to look easy.
> >
> > Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Yehuda Katz <yehudakatz at mailinator.com>
> > wrote:
> > > What do you guys want in a IGF website?
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