[governance] IGF Workshops

Fri Nov 16 09:36:31 EST 2012

Hi Adam,

Are you proposing that the MAC cut 50% of the proposed workshops? On which
base? How to decide which one has to be removed?
I do think that it must be dealt with as it was before; after all, the
quality of the workshops is increasing, and we manage to have this great
number organized without major problem.

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De : apeake at gmail.com [mailto:apeake at gmail.com] De la part de Adam Peake
Envoyé : vendredi 16 novembre 2012 14:33
À : governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Objet : Re: [governance] IGF Workshops

Good to hear that many of the workshops were of a high quality.

I think clearly 11 tracks was too many, but there was a record number of
proposals received this year (and no doubt more next.)  Do we want the MAG
to cut 50% or so?  Or just keep the high number?  Something to think about
in time for taking stock consultation next February.

Adam

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Luca Belli <lucabelli at hotmail.it> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> My impression is that the workshop quality has increased, compared to IGF
6.
>
> I think some efforts may be done in order to merge overlapping 
> workshops but it is important to stress the distinction between 
> duplicate workshops and workshops that analyse similar issues from a 
> different angle. Indeed, many of the workshops have similar titles but 
> completely different contents, format, etc.
>
> For the sake of competition, I would say that it is better to have a 
> wider choice of similar workshops and let the IGF participants vote 
> with their feet by participating to the most valuable ones, rather 
> than oblige workshop organisers to merge.
>
> Furthermore, I would like to join Stuarts nice comment on Workshop 
> 146 (Intellectual Property Rights and the freedom to share: are the 
> two compatible?). Although my opinion is not really impartial, because 
> I was directly involved in the organization of the workshop, I have to 
> say that I received a lot of positive feedbacks and the participants 
> where extremely pleased by three main features of the session:
>  1) the workshop was an interactive roundtable: panellists engaged in 
> a question-and-answer debate since the very beginning and they were 
> not allowed to deliver lectures (they had a maximum of 3-4 minutes to 
> reply my questions);
>  2) a large portion of the workshop was dedicated to interventions 
> from the audience.
> Indeed, we all know that some of the most interesting inputs to the 
> workshops discussions frequently come from the audience;
>  3) we have decided to promote an intergenerational dialogue: the 
> panel make-up included 11 panellists that were born between the 1950s 
> and 1990s, and that was a real surplus value.
>
> I know that is not realistic to involve youngsters in every workshop, 
> but I believe that the promotion of an intergenerational dialogue is 
> the best way to seize the dynamics of an intergenerational Internet. 
> Moreover, having some new faces around can just help strengthen the 
> legitimacy of the IGF discussions.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Luca
>
> PS: the workshop report will be available by the end of the week
>
> Luca Belli
> Doctorant en Droit Public
> CERSA,Université Panthéon-Assas
> Sorbonne University
>
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:46:29 +0100
>> From: Stuart.Hamilton at ifla.org
>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; ajp at glocom.ac.jp
>> Subject: RE: [governance] IGF Workshops
>
>>
>> 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-inclu
>> sio
>> n-and-public-access-to-the-internet
>> http://www.ifla.org/news/igf-baku-workshop-168-outcomes-capacity-buil
>> din
>> 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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