[governance] from the MAG meeting

[Jeanette Hofmann]

There is a tendency towards "threadening" of main session and workshop 
topics. But there is also a continuous drive towards intersecting or 
merging of major themes such as access and capacity building or 
security, privacy and openness under new headers. So, it seems the MAG 
is aware of the pros and con of both approaches.

jeanette

Milton L Mueller wrote:
> There is much to commend in your comment about streaming together of
> related topical areas, Ian. However, we also want to avoid sticking
> everyone into specialist silos. As my colleague John Mathiason likes to
> point out, it's easy to be "for" security, openness, diversity, access.
> The tough part is when you have to sacrifice or limit one for the other;
> for example, making access more expensive because of security
> precautions, or trading off some security for openness, etc. 
> 
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Peter [mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:19 PM
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Jeanette Hofmann'
>> Subject: RE: [governance] from the MAG meeting
>>
>> Jeanette,
>>
>> I always thought it was time to mature into the concept of 
>> topic streams.
>> Most people attending IGF are likely to be primarily 
>> interested in one main
>> theme or another
>>
>> I think each theme chosen could have a continual running 
>> thread throughout
>> the conference up until closing sessions - indeed for a lot of people
>> specializing in say security or access this would allow more in depth
>> analysis in their chosen areas. If this was done with plenary 
>> updates on
>> specific subjects staggered, people could chose to stay with 
>> themes or go
>> back to overview sessions - or of course chop and change (may not have
>> explained that well but I could draw it out if necessary)
>>
>> Ian Peter
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeanette Hofmann [mailto:jeanette at wzb.eu]
>>> Sent: 14 May 2008 23:21
>>> To: Governance Caucus
>>> Subject: [governance] from the MAG meeting
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this afternoon the MAG will discuss main sessions. What 
>> should be the
>>> focus, how should they be structured? The goal is to create a more
>>> direct link between workshops and main sessions. This means 
>> that we try
>>> to pick a few workshops that would feed in directly into 
>> subsequent main
>>> sessions. The focus on main sessions may thus have an impact on the
>>> workshops related to them.
>>>
>>> If there are concrete suggestions for the focus on main sessions,
>>> particularly for the main session on critical Internet 
>> resources, please
>>> let us know.
>>>
>>> Jeanette
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