[governance] UPDATE: Grading Workshops

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Greetings everyone:

Three days ago MAG members received an email from the IGF Secretariat 
requesting us to grade the 100+ workshops that have been submitted. It's 
a tricky job. The grading encourage workshops but not force them to 
merge: this has been the "unwritten" rule "so far". All depend on many 
factors, including workshop organizers willingness to help the 
Secretariat and work as a coalition.

There are many times that a merge make sense. There are opportunities in 
which people may discuss the same issue, and it worth it the merge. You 
can create a big coalition and work with other stakeholders in the areas 
you work on. It has encourage new ways of collaboration with people that 
otherwise will not work together. There is also the need to understand 
that there "might" be limitation of space ... There are also strategies 
where people present workshops to "save space" without presenting good 
workshops descriptions.

Last year we identified several workshops that did not have a civil 
society representative. During the MAG meeting, those workshops were 
identified, and suggestions were made to include a civil society 
representative. This could happen in the other direction if your 
workshop does not met the criteria of relevance, diversity, gender 
balance, developing countries, etc

I have added to a small group of people who have raised their voice to 
help with this tricky tasks. Thanks for helping civil society MAG 
members grade the workshops.

These people are:

fouadbajwa at gmail.com
mariliamaciel at gmail.com
gpaque at gmail.com
jeremy at ciroap.org
ajp at glocom.ac.jp
valeriab at apc.org
iza at anr.org
parminder at itforchange.net
graciela at nupef.org.br

All the best,

Katitza
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