[governance] Workshops update, and decisions needed
Baudouin SCHOMBE
b.schombe at gmail.com
Sat Jul 3 08:10:38 EDT 2010
I share the idea of Fouad regards the participation of different interested
parties to participate in the discussion at this workshop.
I am a candidate among those who wish to participate in this exchange.
SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN
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2010/7/2 Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
> Thank you Jeremy for being supportive of this idea. I appreciate your
> concern over the workshop that we proposed.
>
> Just to share some of my perspectives on this workshop and how I came
> around this subject. Currently, this workshop stands as an approved
> feeder workshop in to the main session on IG4D - Internet Governance
> For Development. Yes that makes it very critical. It is an open space
> and not a limited space otherwise I would have never proposed it
> because I am not a proponent of locking down discussion spaces that
> are critical to development.
>
> We should note that the workshop idea is its power for being accepted
> because none of the workshops in all the schedule provide such an
> innovation where everyone can participate and that is why there has
> been hardly any objections against it. There are a few important
> aspects that I would like to include that this is what many of us from
> the developing world have wanted to have an open and free discussion
> on IG and this will be the opportunity to create that open space.
>
> I would not be supportive of the suggestion to include panellists
> since that would limit the creativity and idea sharing aspects of the
> workshop.This I believe is the opportunity in this workshop. The name
> revolutionary was dropped because I must agree that it wasn't doing
> justice to the topic. It now stands as "Innovative Internet Governance
> Ideas and Approaches - An Open Discussion Space" thus clearly
> explaining its objective that also creates an innovation opportunity
> for future IGF workshops.
>
> This can develop itself to be an important feeding opportunity without
> being locked down to the type of stakeholder participation. It is an
> opportunity for anyone and everyone to share their ideas or briefly
> what changed their countries both developed and developing.
>
> As a matter of rule decided initially, no one gets the mic or floor
> for more than 5 mins and at 4.5 mins, the speaker will be notified.
>
> On the participation side, everyone is encouraged to invite as many
> people as possible. I am going to undertake significant efforts to get
> a good diversity of voices to this workshop. I will try to bring in as
> many youth as possible. I will also be requesting various Latin
> American, African, South Asian, Asia Pacific, Australian, European and
> Canadian youth, legislators and civil society people to join us.
>
> I will also be talking with Rafik and the Child Net project to get the
> 12 youth coming from their program to be part of our workshop. I will
> also try to contact ISOC and include the Next Generation Leader
> Program Members and the IGF Ambassadors, the grantees of the
> Commonwealth IGF Secretariat Bursaries and the DiploFoundation EU
> graduation class to be part of this workshop. I will also request the
> youth remote participation team and Ginger to help me in this process.
> This will create the opportunity to atleast have confirmed speaking
> opportunities during the workshop and record taking.
>
> Secondly, I will try to invite a young EU parliamentarian from the
> Swedish Pirate Party, the 22-year-old Pirate politician:
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/05/start/amelia-andersdotter-the-22-year-old-pirate-politician?page=all
> that had appeared in the IGF Open Consultations this week and if she
> has both the time and opportunity to participate, she will be a very
> important value addition to this workshop.
>
> So these are my current thoughts as I arrive back home.
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> > In the wake of this month's IGF planning meeting, I understand that the
> > situation with our workshops is as earlier forecast: two of our three
> > workshop proposals were accepted, but we have some decisions to make
> about
> > one of them.
> > The workshop on "Revolutionary Internet governance ideas that can help
> > change the developing world" was accepted, except that we are to add
> > developed countries to the scope of the workshop, and Nitin Desai and
> Markus
> > Kummer also asked us to drop the word "revolutionary". The result would
> be
> > simply "Internet governance ideas that can help change the world".
> > Fouad was asked to discuss that within this group, actually by 29 June
> 2010.
> > We are a few days late, already. So we really need to do that now: what
> do
> > we think about dropping the reference to developing countries, and losing
> > "revolutionary"? Or should another title be used altogether such as
> "Open
> > space for new ideas on Internet governance" as proposed by Nitin or
> > "Innovative Internet governance ideas and approaches" by Fouad?
> > The other thing about this workshop is that there are no panelists for
> it;
> > its content is entirely dependent upon participation from the floor.
> > However, as I have discussed with Fouad, I am loathe that we should open
> > the workshop without any idea about who is going to speak. So, I have
> taken
> > the liberty of starting a wiki page for those who would like to speak to
> > list their names and planned topics of discussion. Please visit the page
> if
> > you are interested in participating, and also please circulate the URL
> > widely:
> > http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/Open_space_for_Internet_governance_ideas
> > The other workshop which was accepted was "Transnational (or
> trans-border)
> > enforcement of a new information order – Issues of rights and democracy",
> > and planning for that is well in hand. Thanks to those who spoke up for
> > this workshop during the open consultation.
> > "Successes and failures of Internet governance, 1995 - 2010, and looking
> > forward to WSIS 2015" was not accepted, and no feedback was given as to
> > why... a shame.
> > I am going to suggest that we recommend that the Secretariat's
> conclusions
> > on approval of workshops be publicly posted online, because at present
> this
> > process is not sufficiently transparent. Moreover the rapid chopping and
> > changing of the schedule during the open consultation session inevitably
> > disadvantages those who are remote, despite the availability of Twitter
> and
> > email. For one thing, those in the room were working off a document that
> > the remote participants did not (and still don't) have. A prior, more
> open
> > process of posting and responding to comments on workshops online would
> be
> > far preferable in my opinion.
> >
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