[governance] "Shared decision-making procedures" in IG: examples from the ITU Global Youth Summit

[Jeremy Malcolm]

We tend to be a bit sanctimonious about the shortcomings of the ITU, but the IGF could take a leaf out of its book in relation to some of the procedural innovations of its non-high-level meetings.  I've previously harped on the lost opportunity of "speed dialogues" that were promised for Rio, but that extended only to local participants.  This has progressed into the use of innovative tools for remote participants to engage also, in this case for the upcoming Global Youth Summit: BYND 2015.  See below for an overview of these.  Why can't the IGF muster the imagination to try anything like this?

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> From: "ITU Press Office" <pressoffice at itu.int>
> Subject: Global Youth Summit: BYND 2015
> Date: 12 July 1913 9:13:05 PM GMT+07:00
> To: "Mr Jeremy Malcolm" <jeremy at ciroap.org>
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> Communiqué
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> Global Youth Summit: BYND 2015 -
> Crowdsourcing the Summit outcomes - initial tools announced
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> Geneva, 11 July, 2013 - The BYND2015 Global Youth Summit (http://www.itu.int/en/bynd2015/Pages/default.aspx) will mobilize youth to join forces and create solutions for social good, enabled through widespread access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). Young people are pioneering the use of new technologies, and driving trends in what is a dynamic and major growth industry. The good news is they are using ICTs, the challenge is to inspire use of ICTs in constructive and empowering ways. The BYND2015 Summit will bring young people together - online and offline - who are helping their world through technology, to inspire and challenge one another, and mobilize others to do the same.
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> A key attraction to the BYND2015 Summit is the innovative platform it provides for youth to speak to world leaders about their priorities for the ICT sector. A major outcome of the event will be developed around a short policy statement which captures the key issues and recommendations as identified by a worldwide community of young people. To help source these from a representative and diverse group, the summit will make use of several innovative crowd management and analytical tools which go live in beta version today.
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> ITU is working with Google, Crowdicity and Ripple to provide a seamless user experience for participants engaging with the BYND2015 Summit tools in a process spanning between 10 July and the September event. Overall community platform will happen through a Google+ community (https://plus.google.com/communities/101860858149749340788) serving as the online location for attendees to connect and to create and share content in the run up to BYND2015 in September. 
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> Specific challenges on the themes of the Summit will be explored on a Crowdicity platform http://itu.crowdicity.com/), which facilitates advanced feedback which sees users polled on and critiquing others' ideas through a series of phases until just before the event. To help measure the online conversation and ensure a truly global perspective across multiple platforms, Ripple (http://www.rippleplatform.com/) will provide unique analytics and metrics on the key issues being discussed and top trending discussions across the entire web.  
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> BYND2015 Summit participants will thus be provided with live updates as well as real time analytics on the nature of the debate in the run-up, and will have the opportunity to drive a truly global discussion around the issues. This will be used as input to frame dialogue and workshops onsite, where additional brainstorming and polling will see a final set of priorities crowd-sourced and decided upon, and ultimately delivered to the United Nations General Assembly by the President of Costa Rica - Laura Chinchilla - in late September. 
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> For information see ITU blog BYND2015 - Tapping into the Crowd to Source Solutions at:
> http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/bynd2015-tapping-into-the-crowd-to-source-solutions/ 
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> For more information, please visit www.itu.int/en/bynd2015
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