[governance] What next with the IGF Improvement?

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:53 +0300, McTim wrote:
> I think the tack I would take is that because there is a conflict
> between those who want outputs and those who want to focus on capacity
> building, the IGF spends too much time and energy on discussing
> itself, and not enough time doing its main purpose, which is capacity
> building.  If workshops actually focused on teaching folk instead of
> "shape of the table" issues it could be very useful indeed.

I would have said the opposite.  Any old conference can do capacity
building; this is the IGF's least important function in my view.  Not
any conference can do multi-stakeholder deliberation on Internet policy
issues.  And I think the IGF spends too little time discussing
institutional issues, which is why neither our Indian workshop proposal
nor the mapping proposal fit within any of the substantive themes.

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