[governance] Summary Report of IGF MAG available

[Adam Peake]

At 1:55 PM +0530 3/1/08, Parminder wrote:
>On the substantive issues proposed for main sessions at Hyderabad.
>


(snip)


>
>One can already see the battle-lines in the way 
>the main themes and possible alternatives are 
>listed.
>
>³Universalization of the Internet - How to reach 
>the next billion (alternate title: Expanding the 
>Internet)², and,  ³Managing the Internet 
>(alternate title: Using the Internet)²
>
>No prizes for guessing who was pushing for what.  


  OK


>Universalization of Internet is the social 
>policy language, Œhow to reach the next billion¹ 
>and Œexpanding the Internet¹ are market and 
>business sector languageŠ..


Chatham house, not allowed to attribute comments. 
But I think I can say you don't get a prize.

There is room in the draft for us to propose all 
the topics we think important.  So let's not 
think about "battle lines" but wait for the call 
for workshops, etc. We can respond to the draft 
program outlines now (the summary of the MAG 
meeting is six pages), and it would be good to 
think about our response. A positive approach 
will likely be more successful, and more 
interesting (who enjoys volunteering to be 
miserable...)

From the MAG summary:

"The final programme will be defined in light of 
the proposals made for holding workshops and 
best practice forums. In order to speed up 
planning all interested stakeholders are invited 
to submit proposals by 30 April. Preference will 
be given to organizers who submitted a report of 
events they staged in Rio de Janeiro."

If you held a workshop and haven't yet submitted 
a report, please submit that report. 500-800 
words isn't much to ask in return for a space on 
the agenda of an important international meeting 
(free). And these reports become part of the 
unofficial proceedings of the IGF, so would be 
pretty dumb to argue for the IGF to produce 
outcomes and then not bother to contribute.

We have about 8 weeks to get proposals in.  Earlier the better.

I'm travelling until next weekend, probably won't be replying in much  detail.

Adam
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