[governance] IGF Workshops

[Stuart Hamilton]

Hi Adam

From the perspective of the library groups at the IGF we also felt that
the quality of the workshops was good. We tried to put reports about the
ones we were involved in as up as we went along, so please feel free to
take a look here:

http://www.ifla.org/news/igf-baku-workshop-130-outcomes-digital-inclusio
n-and-public-access-to-the-internet
http://www.ifla.org/news/igf-baku-workshop-168-outcomes-capacity-buildin
g-initiatives
http://www.ifla.org/news/igf-baku-workshop-146-outcomes-intellectual-pro
perty-rights-and-the-freedom-to-share

A background brief on libraries and public access was produced by all
the library groups present, and ISOC, and can be found here:
http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/clm/WSIS/libraries_public_access.pdf 

Our first Dynamic Coalition workshop also went well, so there will be
outcomes from that to share soon enough. For those of you interested in
issues relating to public access to the Internet please consider joining
the DC's mailing list:  http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/pal-dc 

In general, I felt that that the sessions I got the most out of were
those on intellectual property - there seemed to be more input from
rightsholders this year (RIAA, Disney) and this made the discussions
more interesting for me. It was good to get some input from the side of
the media corps/reps as I feel previous IGF workshops on this topic have
had quite a lot of groups from civil society in general agreement. Made
for a better discussion.

Cheers,

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: apeake at gmail.com [mailto:apeake at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Adam Peake
Sent: 13 November 2012 11:18
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: [governance] IGF Workshops

A lot of people I spoke to in Baku last week were very positive about
the workshops, pretty common message was that the content the best of
any IGF.  Not the main sessions, the workshops.  I was working for the
secretariat (contract ended with the conference), I didn't make it to
any workshop, and not much outside the main hall.

I'd love to hear of workshops and other meetings people found valuable.
Is there something to build on for next year?  Taking stock for the
first consultation of next year will start soon (or soon'ish).

Thanks,

Adam


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