[governance] What next with the IGF Improvement?

[Michael Gurstein]

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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [governance] What next with the IGF Improvement?


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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