[governance] Our strategy, work plan and outreach

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Izumi and all

Like the others who have posted, Ginger, Tracy, Christopher, Hempal and 
Imran I think this is a good idea.

I suggest we keep the use of working teams as light as possible.. being 
too ambitious could lead to disappointment.  The idea of a strategy is 
VERY good and it would be really helpful if it enables us to work on 
issues and policy forums beyond just the IGF such as for example ACTA 
and the ITU. Even if we cannot actively work in all these forums, it 
would be useful for us to understand what their implications are for 
internet governance that is inclusive of civil society participation and 
priorities.

This also relates to last week's discussion on the 2003 CS charter. It 
does feel as if the last few years have been really 'busy' but in quite 
a fragmented way. A workplan could help us to identify a few broad goals 
that we can have consensus on, and then we can check back in a year's 
time on what progress / or lack of it there has been.

I am sorry I cannot volunteer to help in a big way as I am barely coping 
with work at the moment, but I will do my best to participate and will 
certainly comment on documents.

Regards

Anriette


On 31/10/10 16:33, Izumi AIZU wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> After starting the role of co-coordinator, I have been thinking, and
> also discussing
> with Jeremy, about the "way forward" - or more specifically, working
> method, modus operandi, of our caucus.
>
> Considering the many tasks ahead of us in relatively short time period, I think
> we need good division of labor and effective working team(s).
>
> We don't want to become a workhorse ;-), rather we would like to
> "coordinate", meaning to
> facilitate moves and works of many members of the caucus. The more people
> involved in the actual work, the better.
>
> For that, we like to suggest that our group to come up with the followings.
>
> a) Strategy - for coming months, in the context of IGF mandate
> extension debate/negotiations around UN
>
> b) Work Plan - based on the strategy, we need to plan ahead on how to
> work - to push our agenda - this may include forming Working Groups,
> ad hoc teams, use some additional online tools etc.
>
> c) Outreach Plan/actions
> One of the points we have discussed on the list was, if I may, the
> relative lack of outreach of our group, with larger Civil Society
> groups. Compared with WSIS days, we have less involvement from larger
> clouds of CS. How to address this and move forward.
>
> We like to ask you to think about these points, come up with opinions,
> suggestions and plans, and eventually, or quickly move to actions based on
> [rough] consensus with bottom-up ways.
>
> We also like some of you to become active members, taking leading roles
> for different items. Form working groups etc. To have wider division
> of labor of our work.
>
> Of course, we are open to your suggestions and also welcome more volunteers!
>
> best,
>
> izumi
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