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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Nanog and the rest of the network operations community calls these 
lightning talks and i agree they are a very useful way to kickstart 
discussions and generate ideas if not always to achieve consensus in the 
short time available for such a dialog.

It would be great to see these introduced. And i am very glad that remote 
collaboration and social tools are being deployed on this scale.

Thanks for sharing

--srs (htc one x)



On 21 July 2013 7:12:32 PM Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > 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>
> > Communiqué
> > Global Youth Summit: BYND 2015 -
> > Crowdsourcing the Summit outcomes - initial tools announced
> > 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.
> > 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.
> > 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.
> > 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.
> > 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.
> > 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/
> > For more information, please visit www.itu.int/en/bynd2015
> >
> >
> >
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