[governance] : e-G8 forum

[Ian Peter]

Not sure that I would argue about abandoning e-G8 ­ I think its quite useful
if imbalanced, and is opening up some lines of communication with some
excellent interventions and some good attendees.

I¹d rather discuss how we could make IGF as relevant by attracting the same
calibre of attendees. IGF government attendees are usually way down the
picking line; the business reps are not quite CEOs of large players such as
Paypal, Google and Facebook ­ and similarly our civil society reps are not
quite Jimmy Wales, John Perry Barlow etc.

In other words, IGF has failed to attract high profile opinion leaders. If
it continues as a second rate forum it will probably just fade away and
no-one will notice. Which would be a pity ­ IGF is far more balanced,
strives to achieve global and balanced inputs, and could be a really
relevant and useful vehicle.

>From our point of view, I am interested in how we can strengthen our inputs
by involving and communicating with some of the higher profile civil society
people who are not so involved with us at present.

Ian Peter



From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Organization: Consumers International
Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:32:00 +0800
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Roland Perry
<roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] :   e-G8 forum

   On 25/05/11 14:16, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <B97535D24829433AB1D5ECAC3B6AA468 at userPC>, at 06:53:13 on Wed, 25
> May 2011, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>
> writes 
>  
>  
>> Who is the host for next year's meeting?
>>  
>  
>  According to Wikipedia:
>  
>  "Each calendar year, the responsibility of hosting the G8 rotates through the
> member states in the following order: France, United States, United Kingdom,
> Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada."
>  
 
 We could go further than we have, and argue that there should be no e-G8
next year, even if it were opened to broader participation, since it is
duplicative and it distracts attention from other fora in which civil
society's resources are already thinly enough spread.
 
 
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