[governance] Results of poll and the two IGF speeches

Fri Sep 10 15:42:57 EDT 2010

In continuation of my earlier message:

The IGF secretariat is preparing the list of speakers for the opening
ceremony and will mix the speakers from the various stakeholder
groups.

The first three speakers will be:

1. Assistant Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
2. Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, the President of Lithuania
3. Ms. Dalia Grybauskaite and the Minister of Transport and Communications
4. Mr. Eligijus Masiulis who will assume the Chairmanship of the meeting.

After that, speaker's list is in a non-hierarchical way, beginning
with a video message from last year's Chairman, Minister Tarek Kamel
and ending with a representative of the country which has offered to
the 2011 meeting, Kenya.

The IGF secretariat also decided to conduct a transparent and fair way
to distribute the speaking slots by drawing lots for the other
speakers and plans to draw the lots on 13 September at 1500 hours thus
the speakers or their representatives are of course cordially invited
to attend this session and draw their lot themselves.

--- Fouad

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have come to learn that due to a large number of responses and interest, the IGF Secretariat will also hold a draw for selecting the names of various people to speak in the opening and closing sessions of the IGF to maintain transparency at their end and have invited whoever can be present at 15:00hrs on the 13th of September 2010 in the main venue in Vilnius to participate in the draw and help draw the names in the open ballot ;o)
> It also remains that we are not the only ones that are invited to propose names!
> I also second Bertrand's suggestion.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Bertrand de La Chapelle <bdelachapelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jeremy, dear all,
>> I think the co-coordinators make perfect sense. and the poll method has been very useful as a thermometer. Regarding the topics, some suggestions :
>> - I suggest that when drafting the speeches, you use the ranking of the various themes not as indication of some been kept and others dropped but rather as an indication of the length of the paragraphs that should be devoted to each : all issues are worth mentioning and the fact that gender for instance only has 12 % does not prevent from making a short paragraph about it (because it is indeed important); having two speeches allows to cover most ground
>> - it would probably be interesting to focus the opening on the more substantive topics (UDHR, and most of the "novel ones", even if IANA or net neutrality are not completely new) in order to produce food for thought for the rest of the week. As you've often heard me say, the best way to get consensus in the IGC and to have a positive impact in the discussions is to focus on the framing of each problem and fundamental principles rather than advocating for a specific solution (as in many cases CS is not of a uniform voice). Ginger would probably be best for the opening
>> - the closing session could focus more on procedural issues and looking forward at the future of the IGF (continuation, "improvements"), the need to preserve certain fundamental operational principles and more generally the role of the different stakeholders, in particular civil society in the upcoming enhanced cooperation discussions. Given his keen interest in those topics, I suppose Jeremy would be the most suited to it. It also leaves some time during the IGF to polish the positionning (on site and online) and take into account some of the comments and discussions that will take place. Please do not forget to include the item "congratulating the IGF" along possible recommendations for change. Even if there is ample room for improvement, this is still a fragile experiment that deserves some protection and has established (as wolfgang rightly highlighted) a pattern of interaction unavailable anywhere else.
>> I hope this helps and trusts that we'll have a good IGF.
>> Looking forward to seeing many of you soon.
>> Best
>> Bertrand
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The results are as follows.  128 responses were received, 117 in full and the balance in part (ie. only one of the two questions), from 463 invitations sent.  This is a response rate of 27.6%, which is reasonable by IGC standards, bearing in mind that some people are subscribed twice or more under different addresses, and that we have some lurkers, eg. from the IGF Secretariat, who do not participate in the IGC's consensus decision-making.
>>> I'll take the results question by question.  On the first question, there was a clear enough view that Ginger and I, as the IGC coordinators, should take the opening and closing slots; this was also the only choice supported by more than half the respondents.  Parminder and Wolfgang were next most common choices.  Karen Banks and Valeria Betancourt were the women who received the most support, though with less than one third of respondents for either of them.
>>> Therefore I will be recommending to the IGF Secretariat that Ginger and I speak.  If they do not agree with this, then I will suggest that Parminder and Valeria speak (although Karen received equal support, Valeria pips Karen on geographical diversity - sorry Karen).
>>> Here are the percentage breakdowns for the first question (sorry, this may look bad if your email program doesn't support HTML):
>>> Which four names should be put forward as civil society speakers?
>>> Answer Count Percentage
>>> Fouad Bajwa (a) 3325.78%
>>> Fatimata Seye Sylla (b) 2821.88%
>>> Valeria Betancourt (c) 3628.12%
>>> Wolfgang Kleinwachter (d) 5542.97%
>>> Parminder Jeet Singh (e) 6450.00%
>>> Co-coordinators (Jeremy Malcolm and Ginger Paque) (f) 75 58.59%
>>> Karen Banks (g) 3628.12%
>>> Ben Akoh (h) 1713.28%
>>> Katitza Rodriguez (i) 3225.00%
>>> Marilia Maciel (available for opening only) (j) 33 25.78%
>>> On the second question, the most popular answer was "Involvement of civil society in enhanced cooperation model for Internet governance".  There are five other answers that were also clearly more popular than the others: the development dimension of IG, the retention of the IGF's core characteristics, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the desirability of improving inclusion and participation, and the desirability that the IGF continue to evolve and innovate.
>>> Leaving aside "Other", there were only three questions that received support from less than a third of respondents: congratulating the IGF on its successes, the gender dimension and the role of dynamic coalitions.  So leaving these aside, all of the available choices of theme were quite popular.
>>> Here is the complete breakdown of responses to the second question:
>>> What are the top five themes to suggest the speakers address in their presentations?
>>> Answer Count Percentage
>>> Congratulating the IGF (on the completion of its first term, its innovative structure, etc.) (a) 32 25.00%
>>> Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Internet (b) 65 50.78%
>>> Development dimension of Internet governance (c) 70 54.69%
>>> Involvement of civil society in enhanced cooperation model for Internet governance (d) 78 60.94%
>>> Retention of IGF's core characteristics (multistakeholderism, openness, consultative program shaping processes) (e) 68 53.12%
>>> Desirability that IGF continue to evolve and innovate as necessary, within its non-binding mandate (f) 54 42.19%
>>> Gender dimension of Internet governance (g) 1612.50%
>>> Desirability of improving inclusion and participation (including remote participation) at the IGF (h) 57 44.53%
>>> Role of dynamic coalitions (i) 2418.75%
>>> Non-negotiated outputs such as "messages from" or "recommendations at" the IGF (j) 37 28.91%
>>> Other  107.81%
>>> Of the ten "Other" responses, four link in with other available answers:
>>>
>>> Desirability that IGF continue to evolve and innovate as necessary, with a modified mandate to give its outputs more weight [an extended version of answer (f)]
>>> An articulated, hierarchical scheme for producing consensus "messages" or "recommendations" [an extended version of answer (j)]
>>> Consideration of a more serious role in global net gov policymaking, building on first 5 years of talk shop [an extension of answers (f) and (j)]
>>> All of these are obviously important... hopefully we can work all of the ideas in - e.g. combine those around IGF characteristics, enhanced cooperation and continuation of IGF [links answers (a) to (j).
>>>
>>> The other six are more or less novel:
>>>
>>> ICANN review and IANA contract
>>> Increased involvement of developing country participants in shaping the agenda of the IGF, greater role for regional and national meetings in shaping the IGF rather than the MAG
>>> Network neutrality, privacy and communication freedom over the Internet
>>> Importance of an open and accessible Internet
>>> A Review Report (from CS) on MAG Responsibilities vs Accountability w.r.t. UNSG mandate (which global issues resolved or what challenges handled by IGF MAG at Global Challenges for Internet Global Level)
>>> Free Software - Free Knowledge
>>>
>>> So, it appears likely that Ginger and I will speak, and that we will focus on the themes that received the greatest support - whilst trying to at least touch on most of them.  Ginger has offered to speak first, and will cover "involvement of civil society in enhanced cooperation process".
>>> Graphs of these results are available on our Web site at http://www.igcaucus.org/node/37.  The exact results of "who voted for what" will also be put online in due course.  If you want to see them now, I can send you the raw data files and you can pore through them at your leisure.
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