[governance] Vilnius workshops

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi all,

below an email from Markus Kummer with information on workshops and 
other meetings for Vilnius.

Short version: 90 proposal for workshops have been submitted and posted 
on the IGF website, alas they need to be cut down to a total of 50 or 60.

jeanette


The list of all
workshop proposals has been posted earlier today. In total, we have
close to 90  proposal for workshops / best practices sessions. We will
continue to do some light editing, but rest assured: no new proposals
will be added.

As in previous years, we are preparing a scoring sheet that we will send
out to the list, to assist you in determining whether the proposals
fulfill the various criteria we have agreed on, such as relevance and
diversity in terms of geographical, gender and stakeholder participation
as well as diversity of viewpoints.

Please bear in mind that we will also receive  proposals for open forum
from relevant organizations and national/regional IGF type initiatives.

  From a scheduling point of view, we should be able to accommodate a
maximum of around 80 workshops and other events, including dynamic
coalition meetings and open forums, bearing in mind that this year's
slots have been lengthened from 90 minutes to two hours, thus reducing
the number of slots available. This means that the number of workshops
will need be reduced to a total of between 50 and 60, depending on the
number of other events. Such a number would also be in line with the
feedback we received in last February's stock-taking session..

Best regards
Markus.



  > Thanks for these details, Markus.  Without wanting to put any
  > additional pressure on you, I wonder if you could let us know before
  > too long whether there were a large number of workshop proposals,
  > and what your plans are for having them posted to the website?  It
  > would be helpful to know how large a task we face in a couple of weeks.
  >
  > Looking forward to seeing you
  >
  > Bill
  >
  > On 2010-04-26, at 9:49 AM, Markus KUMMER wrote:
  >
  >
  > Dear colleagues,
  >
  > It is my pleasure to inform you that Under-Secretary-General Sha has
  > addressed an open letter to all stakeholders, inviting them to the
  > Vilnius meeting. You will note that he has accepted the overall
  > theme and the agenda we prepared at our last meeting. As in previous
  > years, the invitation is posted on our Web site.
  >
  > You will recall that we mentioned the possibility of an informal
  > brainstorming dinner on 11 May. In order to make a reservation for
  > the right number of participants I would be grateful if you could
  > confirm whether you are able to attend by 5 May end of business.
  > Please send the email to our generic secretariat address: igf at unog.ch
  > . Unfortunately, we do not have a budget for inviting you to dinner,
  > so it will be on a self-pay basis (unless a generous sponsor decided
  > to pick up the bill...). We will let you know the location once we
  > have a clear picture as regards the number of participants.
  >
  > It seems now that our Chairman will be able to stay until shortly
  > after 1500 hours on 12 May. I suggest nevertheless sticking to the
  > schedule I had proposed earlier, that is 0900-1200 and 1330-1530.
  > This means that we will have (almost) a full working day on 12 May.
  >
  > In addition to the MAG meeting there will be an information session
  > on the IGF in the framework of the WSIS Forum. The invited me to
  > prepare a programme and I thought it would be best to organize a
  > multistakeholder panel, similar to the orientation session we had in
  > Sharm. The following MAG members kindly agreed to be on the panel:
  > Christine, Nurani. Katitza and Waudo. In addition, the Alex Ntoko,
  > Head of the ITU Corporate Strategy Division, will give an IGO
  > perspective. You are of course cordially invited to attend the
  > meeting and actively engage in the discussions.
  >
  > Best regards
  > Markus
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