[governance] Proposed workshop text on CSTD and/or Indian proposal

[parminder]

Hi All

I am not sure we should ask for the workshop on 'evaluation of CSTD....' 
when we are in any case proposing the one on 'Indian proposal'. I have 
been to many workshops in the IGF now and am convinced that the valuable 
time of a global assemblage once in a year under official UN legitimacy 
should be devoted to relatively clear and concrete deliberations, aimed 
at making progress on the global Internet policy landscape. A simple 
evaluation of the CSTD WG in my opinion will attract a lot of empty 
verbiage, denoting standard perspectives of different parties. Having to 
specifically comment on a concrete proposal on the table on the other 
hand will, hopefully, force people to be clear and concise in their 
propositions.

Also, I am almost sure that the secretariat will ask us to merge these 
two workshops as being too close to each other in their subject matter. 
There may therefore be no point in starting with two proposals when the 
ultimate destiny of them is more or less known in advance. This is for 
the group's and co-coordinator's consideration.

parminder


On Thursday 07 April 2011 11:37 PM, Miguel Alcaine wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I believe the three ideas (two proposed by Jeremy and the one proposed 
> by McTim) are important.
>
> *Reflection on the Indian proposal towards an IGF 2.0*
> This kind of work will allow to pave the way towards real improvement 
> of IGF.
>
> *Evaluation of the CSTD WG on Improvements to the IGF*
> This is interesting and convenient because the CSTD is the entry point 
> of IGF into the intergovernmental machinery and an analysis could help 
> to suggest ways to improve work within the framework of the CSTD.
>
> *Real IG (I would suggest Current IG vis a vis meta IG)*
> I believe the group (and many members) around this emailing list, as I 
> have said before, has the capacity, expertise and capabilities to work 
> and influence in what McTim calls real IG, which revolves around 
> settings where current decisions are taken. A workshop presenting and 
> discussing this issue will help clarifying the current mapping between 
> foras, bodies, decisions and impacts, and might help a lot of 
> uninitiated people.
>
> I hope IGC can find resources and partners to take the above ideas for 
> workshops forward.
>
> Miguel
>
> Disclaimer
> My ideas are those of my own and does not represent any position of my 
> employer or any other institution
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org 
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 08:57 +0300, McTim wrote:
>     > hi,
>     >
>     > Might it be possible to do a workshop on an actual Internet
>     Governance
>     > issue instead of navel-gazing?
>     >
>     > We couldn't even get our act together to make a statement to the
>     NTIA,
>     > are we really only about talking about meta-IG, and not real IG?
>
>     Why not both?  Please suggest a topic for what you call "real IG", and
>     if there is broad agreement, the IGC can sponsor that too.
>
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