[governance] the matter of MAG rotation 2010

[Roland Perry]

In message <F9447D48-8175-4B4B-9292-18B54A3CFBF3 at datos-personales.org>, 
at 21:23:16 on Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Katitza Rodriguez 
<katitza at datos-personales.org> writes
> Last year the process of the selection of speakers well not known 
>until the end
...
> We do many things in the last minutes.

My understanding of the timing last year was that the main panel 
speakers, rather than VIPs flying in for one session, were expected to 
be selected from people already attending the meeting because they were 
on a panel in one of the workshops. So until the successful merging and 
scheduling of the workshops, that could not be finally determined.

I can easily see the sessions in May and June becoming largely 
corridor-discussions within a number of caucus's for each proposed 
workshop or panel, much along the lines of last year's September 
discussions about merging workshops with similar themes.

Last year, that process of workshop merging, by email, wasn't very 
efficient as far as I could tell; the ever changing deadlines being a 
strong indicator of this.

Matters progress at ten times the pace, face to face. Better to lock 
everyone in a room in Geneva and say "you can't get your slot in the 
schedule until you've worked out just one workshop agenda on <selected 
topic> and come to us with a list of speakers".

So rather than be a "last minute" activity (as it was at the EBU in 
September) make it the "planned activity" in May this year. And in June 
populate the main panels with speakers drawn from the workshops 
finalised in May, perhaps using the skills of some kind of "MAG of all 
the workshop organisers".

I know this approach may offend fans of remote working, but time is 
short and we need to have fewer workshops, on subjects and in time slots 
where the audience for each is expected to exceed double figures. Just 
my two cents.

===on the MAG===

My plan above puts a heavy responsibility on the existing MAG to conduct 
all its business for 2010 at the February meeting (or very soon after).
That's mainly because we are meeting in Vilnius earlier in the year, and 
not because of the issue of selecting a new MAG - which may in any event 
become a lame duck as soon as it's clear what plans the wider UN process 
has for IGF renewal.
-- 
Roland Perry
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