[governance] CSTD

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 24/05/2010, at 3:03 AM, D. R. Newman wrote:

> A lot of intergovernmental meetings still use the traditional processes
> of face-to-face meetings (which result in either excluding a lot of
> people, or 200 people each speaking for 3 minutes, but not listening),
> and paper documents. For years we have had groupware that allows us to
> do better. Two examples, one on a meeting process, the other on
> collaborative document writing.
> 
> 1. America Speaks (www.americaspeaks.org) runs public meetings with 6000
> participants. Ordinary people site in tables of 10, with a trained
> facilitator. On the table, someone types notes of the questions, ideas
> and conclusions from the discussion. This is fed to a set of assistants
> who group together ideas under topics, and feed them back to the whole
> hall for discussion and voting.

This was very much like my original vision for the IGF, and in fact I made specific reference to both America Speaks and GRASS as models (see my book at http://books.google.com/books?id=G8ETBPD6jHIC, pages 254-279).  So yes, I completely agree that it is "doable" for the IGF as it has been for many other organisations.

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