[governance] methods was CSTD

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi Bertrand and Jeremy,

a mailing list for more than 1000 participants? Are you sure mailing 
lists are a good device for organizing a meaningful discussion for such 
a large and diverse group of people? What should they discuss? All the 
topics addressed at the IGF meetings?
jeanette

Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:
> Dear Jeremy,
> 
> I also have always wondered why there is no greater use of this general 
> mailing list for the IGF.
> 
> Would reviving it be part of the future developments ?
> 
> What could be its use ?
> 
> Best
> 
> Bertrand
>  
> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org 
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 24/05/2010, at 11:53 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
> 
>      > so have we been able to introduce any new working methods or ways
>     of reaching outcomes in the IGC?
> 
>     We haven't really needed to, since the mailing list has been working
>     for us (though last time, we did experiment with online polling
>     software which seemed to work well). But the IGF won't even use its
>     the open mailing list that it already has.  I convinced the
>     Secretariat to create this back in 2006
>     (http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/plenary_intgovforum.org),
>     but it has never been promoted to IGF participants, so nobody knows
>     about it or uses it.
> 
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