[governance] IGC-sponsored IGF workshop proposals

[Jeremy Malcolm]

This thread is to discuss proposals for workshops for the Nairobi meeting for the IGF.

This year there are feeder workshops which are those relating to the main themes and sub-themes of the meeting, and other workshops.  The overall theme of the meeting is "Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms and innovation", and the main themes under this are:

Internet governance for development (IG4D)
Emerging Issues
Managing critical Internet resources
Security, openness and privacy
Access and diversity
Taking stock and the way forward

The criteria for this year's workshops are listed here: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/w2011.

IGC members may, of course, propose workshops without the imprimatur of the IGC and are encouraged to do so.  However, there may be workshops that would have extra value coming from the IGC as the main global civil society forum on Internet governance issues.

As a reminder of the workshops we held last year, they were "Innovative Internet Governance Ideas and Approaches - An Open Discussion Space," "Transnational (or trans-border) enforcement of a new information order – Issues of rights and democracy", and "Successes and failures of Internet governance, 1995 - 2010, and looking forward to WSIS 2015".

For workshops to be proposed this year, we will need to identify one or more people who will be responsible for coordinating it, which will not necessarily be either of the IGC co-coordinators.

One workshop idea that I want to throw in for discussion is the rather straightforwardly (if not confrontingly) titled: "Planning for a new multi-stakeholder Internet governance council".  The idea behind it is to provide a session in which to discuss hypothetical new high-level multi-stakeholder arrangements for enhanced cooperation and for conducting exercises like the review of the IGF, as recently but unsuccessfully attempted by the CSTD working group.

Please post your suggestions here.

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Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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