[governance] caucus contribution, consultation and MAG meeting

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

FWIW, this is a very process-oriented sounding theme - and candidly
rather dry. Imagine if you were new to the subject and thinking about
attending the conference for the first time. Would that theme excite
you?

Here are a few thoughts:

"Envisioning People-Centric Internet Development"
"Meeting the Social and Economic Opportunity of the Information Age"
"Driving Opportunity and Development for All"

These may not be wonderful, but perhaps they illustrate the concept
I'm getting at: a theme should be interesting, exciting, and provoke
the reader to 'think different' or 'think big' and be curious about
what the conference will hold for them. IMHO


-- 
Regards,

Nick

Sent from my one of my handheld thingies, please excuse linguistic mangling.

On 30 Jan 2013, at 19:43, Gene Kimmelman <genekimmelman at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
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> From: michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
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> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org,'Norbert Bollow' <nb at bollow.ch>
> Subject: RE: [governance] caucus contribution, consultation and MAG meeting
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> +1 “Meaningful participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance”
>
> M
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> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Norbert Bollow
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:26 AM
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> Regarding the suggestion for an overall IGF theme:
>
> Adam had originally suggested: “enhanced cooperation — meaningful participation of developing countries in Internet governance”.
>
> Jeremy commented: “I don’t really like the subtitle because it is too government-centric. I would prefer ‘meaningful participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance’.”
>
> On the basis of Jeremy’s comment, I changed the suggestion for the overall theme to “Meaningful participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance”. I don’t think that “enhanced cooperation — meaningful participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance”
> would fly, as that seems to me to be at odds with the interpretation of “enhanced cooperation” in the recent resolution of the UN General Assembly.
>
> Now Baudounin Schombe has commented:
>   “Meaningful participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance.”
>   This idea is already interesting because the theme is inclusive and
>   involves all stakeholders from all member countries of the UN. I
>   propose this idea accentuated by offering the following, “The need for
>   effective participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance.”
>   This is to emphasize the importance of the active presence of national
>   actors in the process of decision making on all matters relating to
>   the management of the Internet at the local level. In some African
>   countries, this approach is applied and well oiled. But many African
>   countries are not yet in this logic. And this is where there is reason
>   to believe the strengthening of cooperation.
>
> What do the others think?
>
> “Meaningful participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance”
>
> or
>
> “The need for effective participation of all stakeholders in Internet governance.”
>
> or something else?
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
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