[governance] Brainstorming [Improvements to IGC Coordination on IG Policies] #Working Groups

Sun Sep 16 18:28:50 EDT 2012

The 2011 Survey that I had made reference to was sent to the list by
Norbert on May 5, 2011. The links were also shared below.

Kind Regards,
Sala

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From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: "Mapping IG" [Request for Update]
To: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>
Cc: coordinators at igcaucus.org

Dear Sala

Here is a copy of my posting regarding this that I sent on May 5.

The analysis papers have been published in the Proceedings of the
conference "Consumer Represensation in Information Society",
and are also publicly available online, at the link given below.

Greetings,
Norbert

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From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
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To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Survey results: Public Interest Representation in Information
Society
Message-Id: <20120505174227.5E4E52FE at quill.bollow.ch>
Date: Sat,  5 May 2012 19:42:27 +0200 (CEST)

The results of the 2011 survey on Public Interest Representation in
Information Society are available here:

  http://idgovmap.org/Survey_2011

together with two analysis papers (one by me, one by Elena Pavan).

Furthermore, the online Map of Internet Governance is now reasonably
complete with regard to the Internet governance fora that have been
identified as particulrly important on the basis of these survey
results:

  http://idgovmap.org/map/inst_category/key

As a next step, if you have practical experiences in engaging at one
or more of these fora, it would be good if you could share what you
have learned that can empower others. Each page of the Map has an
"Edit source" link that allows you add information and email your
modified version to the "editors" of the map, currently Jeremy Malcolm
and myself. Don't worry too much about whether the syntax is perfect,
we can fix such details, just freely write what you think would be
valuable for others to read in preparation for engaging in Internet
governance.

Many thanks in advance for your contributions to the Map, and also of
course my sincere thanks again to all who have responded to the
survey.

Greetings,
Norbert

> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 04:38:37 +1200
> From: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>
> Cc: coordinators at igcaucus.org
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>
> Dear Norbert,
>
> I was wondering whether the papers you did concerning Public Interest
> Representation in Information Society are public documents and can be
> shared for discussion. I was also wondering whether this was also
> shared within the IGC at any stage.
>
> I think that they are excellent and critical because you had consulted
> widely and presented your analysis in a critical manner. I was
> wondering whether you would consider sharing this with the IGC with
> the view of concentrating on how we wish to engage.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> > Hello Sala
> >
> > Thanks for writing, and your interest! Your greetings from Fiji make me
> > dream of warm temperatures, palms and beaches! It is cold here, it's
winter
> > and there's fresh snow outside.
> >
> > About Mapping IG: The preparatory phase for the IGC workshop has
resulted in
> > the formation of a "Dynamic Working Coalition for Internet Governance
> > Mapping" with a website and mailing list at http://idgovmap.org and a
good
> > collaboration in particular with Consumers International, leading to a
> > survey on "Public Interest Representation in Information Society".
Jeremy
> > presented preliminary results at the workshop, and I've written a report
> > (draft attached), which is currently being proofread. As soon as this is
> > finalized and published, I'll incorporate much of its text into the
online
> > draft Map.
> >
> > The workshop in Nairobi itself was good but not quite up to my
expectations.
> > One major challenge was that the remote participation infrastructure was
> > simply not working, so that neither our two remote panelists nor any
other
> > remote participants were able to interact as expected. I'm attaching
what
> > I've submitted as *preliminary* workshop report, to be amended if/when
the
> > IGF secretariat finally succeeds in making the workshop transcript
> > available. (The real-time transcription is not usable as it was also
> > affected by whatever technical problems they were having with our
workshop
> > room, but the IGF secretariat has promised to make a transcript
available on
> > the basis of a video recording of the workshop. This hasn't happened yet
> > though.) A picture, the definitive list of panelists and links are
available
> > online at http://idgovmap.org/Workshop_Nairobi_2011 .
> >
> > As you may recall, the "Mapping IG" workshop idea was something that
really
> > resulted from the discussions on the IGC mailing list, with McTim
perhaps
> > being the most central contributor to the emergence of this idea.
However it
> > is not worth much to just talk about the need for a Map: The work to
> > actually create and maintain it must somehow be done, and financed,
etc. For
> > now, I'm going forward with this as I can, although my ability to work
on
> > this is severely hindered by the current lack of funding. (Consumers
> > International has helped me very significantly in that respect last
year,
> > and Andrea Glorioso of the European Commission has indicated that they
might
> > be able to fund a bit of work, but there are no concrete offers yet.)
> >
> > The next major step for me is a talk that I'll give about the Mapping IG
> > project and survey at the conference "Consumers in the Information
Society"
> > in Kuala Lumpur in early March. I hope to be able to convince some
consumer
> > organizations to become active users of the draft map and contributors
to
> > its further development.
> >
> > I'm also planning to be at the next IGF in Baku and I'm thinking about
> > proposing another "Mapping IG" related workshop: I feel that should be
one
> > that is narrower in scope, to focus on one or two aspects of Mapping IG
and
> > making such a Map practically useful. I have little to no idea yet
though
> > what these focus areas should be, so any thoughts in relation to that
which
> > you might have would be most welcome!
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Norbert
>
>
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