[governance] Workshop on Remote Participation

[Milton L Mueller]

Ginger, you're doing a great job of keeping track of the workshop discussions and of compiling the responses. Thanks for that.

My problem at this stage is that I (and, I suspect, many others) are basically frozen in place by Bertrand's suggestion (statement?) that the method of workshop planning and development will be completely different this year. I am surprised that there has been no response to my expressed concerns about this, and until there is some clarification or discussion of those basic parameters, I think it is unwise to invest time in developing workshops. Indeed, I am not even sure I would plan to attend the IGF if certain worst-case scenarios play out.

We have been told, in effect, "don't develop a detailed, coherent program for a workshop and don't line up any people, because whatever idea you have is going to be treated as a general "theme" and then thrown into a huge pot and re-sorted into MAG-defined groups." And those groups may be a bunch of people who hardly know each other with different, sometimes conflicting agendas. If I am not correctly apprehending the meaning of those changes please correct me. In the meantime, I await an appropriate response.

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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From: Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:21 PM
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Subject: [governance] Workshop on Remote Participation

Please post your interest and ideas concerning this workshop on this thread.

Remote Participation from both the policy (inclusion) and application (practical) perspectives (Ginger)

Ginger

Ms. Virginia (Ginger) Paque
DiploFoundation
Coordinator IGCBP 09

www.diplomacy.edu/ig<http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig>
VirginiaP at diplomacy.edu

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