[governance] caucus contribution, consultation and MAG meeting

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Louis Pouzin <pouzin at well.com> wrote:
>
> > re Main sessions.
> > *Only two *90min main sessions.
> > One on the 1st day, the other on the last day.
> > Interpretation only in english.
> > Reallocate interpreters to most popular workshops
>
> Do you think that severely reducing the weight of the main sessions
> like this is preferable to the suggestion of innovation in main session
> format (as currently in the draft submission [1])?
> [1] http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/archives/79
>
> If so, why?
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
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Yes Norbert.

Main sessions are customarily preempted as show business for local
celebrities and IGF nomenklatura. That produces repetitious hackneyed
truisms inducing boredom and sleep. A fair number of attendees come because
there is interpretation in several languages. Two sessions of that sort are
enough for speakers' ego satisfaction.

One more main session could be tried as innovation, whatever that means.
Result will tell.

Workshops are more effective because:
- there is much more choice, one can move from a poor one to a good one,
- speakers use spontaneous language,
- there are more interactions with the attendees,
- specific topics fit better with a small room,
- it's easier to identify who is there.

On the minus side, there is no interpretation, or rarely. Speakers' english
is more or less understandable, depending on the room. This could be
corrected by "repeaters", that is people trained to decode various english
accents, and repeat verbatim in well spoken american (Chicagoan).

Louis
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