[governance] Update Re: "Mapping IG"

[Norbert Bollow]

FYI here's the current status of the "Mapping IG" workshop proposals.
Many thanks to everyone who has provided valuable suggestiond and
advice!!! There's still three open panelist slots where I'm still
waiting for a response and may need to follow up by phone and/or ask
someone else. Also the person who i hope will be co-organizer still 
needs to receive the ok from his employer.

I think that we have a credible and important proposal here, and I
fully expect it to be accepted.

As soon as that has happened, I'll probably want to set up an
"advisory group" and an "editing group" and try to get the preparatory
work started.

Greetings,
Norbert

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Question 1: Title of proposed workshop:

  Mapping Internet Governance

Question 2: Please provide a concise description of the proposed workshop:

  This workshop will explore where and how Internet Governance decisions
  are currently taken. What are the relevant fora and decision-making
  bodies? In what topic areas do they make decisions and with what
  kinds of impacts? How can individuals and stakeholder organizations
  make sure that their viewpoints and concerns are appropriately taken
  into consideration?

  Besides having a discussion of these topics in Nairobi, the workshop
  aims at initiating a multistakeholder process for creating a document
  "Map of Internet Governance" which addresses these questions from a
  balanced, multistakeholder perspective, and for thereafter keeping
  this document up-to-date. As a starting point for the discussions, a
  list of already existing documents with similar goals and a rough
  draft for a first edition of the Map will be prepared in advance. At
  the workshop itself, it will be a main goal to learn from diverse
  stakeholders about what information is important to them to empower
  their effective participation in Internet Governance fora.

  There will be special emphasis on the challenges related to effective
  participation from developing countries in Internet Governance
  decision-making processes, with the objective of ensuring that the
  resulting decisions become more conductive to development goals.

Question 4a: Have you, or any of your co-organizers, organized an IGF
workshop before?

  no

Question 4b: If so, please provide the link(s) to the report(s):

Question 5: Provide the names and affiliations of the panelists you
are planning to invite.

Panelists:

  Definite or tentative acceptance of the invitation to participate as
  panelists has so far been received from the following:

  David Souter: Managing Director, ict Development Associates; author
    of http://www.apc.org/en/pubs/books/mapping-internet-public-policy ;
    Visiting Professor in Communications Management, Business School,
    University of Strathclyde; Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of
    Media and Communications, London School of Economics; Associate of
    the International Institute for Sustainable Development

  Bitange Ndemo: Permanent Secretary in The Ministry for Information And
    Communications, Republic of Kenya

  Jeremy Malcolm: Consumers International, Kuala Lumpur Office for
    Asia-Pacific and the Middle East

  It is foreseen that there will be in total six panelists; efforts
  are underway to invite in addition

    * a second person with experience as an author or editor in
      mapping IG fora and decision-making procedures,

    * someone from a supranational organization in Latin America,
      such as e.g. ECLAC,

    * someone from the technical community with strong understanding
      of the needs of the private sector, e.g. a representative
      of AfriNIC or APNIC.

Remote Moderator:

  Ginger Paque [Born in US, 35 year resident of Venezuela]:
    DiploFoundation, ISOC, IGC, RPWG

Note on IGF Themes:

  The workshop falls under the Internet governance for development
  cross-cutting priority. In addition, all of the five broad IGF
  Themes will be explicitly addressed by discussing what are the main
  governance processes relevant to each of these themes.

  The workshop and its resulting "Map of Internet Governance" document
  will contribute to capacity building in all of these thematic areas,
  and to empowering individuals as well as stakeholder organizations to
  become directly involved in the Internet Governance processes which
  are relevant to their area of interest.

Question 6: Provide the name of the organizer(s) of the workshop and
their affiliation to various stakeholder groups. (Please note that
workshops are expected to adhere to the multistakeholder principle,
including geographical and gender diversity and to provide different
perspectives on the issues under discussion.)

  Norbert Bollow: Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus;
    Swiss Open Systems User Group /ch/open
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