[governance] Should the IGF be reformed?

[Alex Comninos (via governance Mailing List)]

Remote participation needs to become a real and appealing thing for the IGF
to become relevant.

I have not taken part in IGFs since Bali due to geographical and financial
constraints.

RP is always far in the background with almost no participants. It's also
really hard to actually get that terrible Cisco software working on
anything but a windows PC.

I did do some serious RP for the Mexico IGF. It could be a very powerful
tool. One can easily monitor many sessions. Also one tends to be less
distracted by schmoozing and travel fatigue.

The IGF has failed to communicate to the average netizen that it exists,
what it is, and that we are all stakeholders.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 20:40 Arsène Tungali, <governance at lists.riseup.net>
wrote:

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> https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/03/lets-reform-igf-ensure-healthy-future/
>
>
> A blog from Raul (ISOC) about the need to reform the IGF. I know this is
> what so many other people believe we should do. Let’s talk about it!
>
>
> Can we discuss what are the changes that we would like to see happen to
> make the IGF as strong and powerful as it used to be? As of now, no one
> know where the IGF 2018 will take place and we are in March! All i know and
> heard from Chengetai is that they have 3 countries in mind but are yet to
> decide!
>
>
> Now that the new MAG was announced, what are our expectations of its
> members? What do you think of new and past members? What can we expect from
> our CS representatives there?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arsene
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