[governance] UPDATE: Grading Workshops

Katitza Rodriguez katitza at eff.org
Thu May 12 17:31:33 EDT 2011


Please noted that MAG members from all stakeholders will submit their 
views to the IGF Secretariat by Sunday night at the latest. The IGF 
Secretariat will consolidate all the submissions.

I am not sure how the dynamics of this year MAG meeting will work. It 
would be ideal if all civil society MAG members sent a "unify" 
spreadsheet. It's difficult but it's a lot of work. It might be good to 
try that.

On 5/12/11 2:22 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
> 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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