[governance] UPDATE: Grading Workshops

[Katitza Rodriguez]

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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