[Evolintgov2014] Next Steps: Way Forward Evolution of Internet Governance Ecosystem/Role of IGF ­ (Reaction to NETmundial + CSTD, WSIS, ITU, other fora.)

[Constance Bommelaer]

Thank you, Sorina.

There seems to be a few issues with the mailing lists. I have been receiving requests from members of the BPF mailing lists to have them checked.

With regards to the list of speakers below, I can confirm that Subi has reached out to Kathy Brown (President and CEO of ISOC) who has confirmed her participation in this main session.

All the best,
Constance



From: Sorina TELEANU <STELEANU at unog.ch<mailto:STELEANU at unog.ch>>
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:50 AM
To: "evolintgov2014 at intgovforum.org<mailto:evolintgov2014 at intgovforum.org>" <evolintgov2014 at intgovforum.org<mailto:evolintgov2014 at intgovforum.org>>
Subject: [Evolintgov2014] Next Steps: Way Forward Evolution of Internet Governance Ecosystem/Role of IGF – (Reaction to NETmundial + CSTD, WSIS, ITU, other fora.)

Dear all,

We are re-sending this email to the list, as it seems it didn't get through before.

Best regards,

Sorina Teleanu
IGF Secretariat

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From: William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com<mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [Evolintgov2014] [IGFmaglist] Next Steps: Way Forward Evolution of Internet Governance Ecosystem/Role of IGF – (Reaction to NETmundial + CSTD, WSIS, ITU, other fora.)
Date: July 8, 2014 at 4:34:52 PM GMT+2
To: evolintgov2014 <evolintgov2014 at intgovforum.org<mailto:evolintgov2014 at intgovforum.org>>

Hi

So according to the archives, the last messages to this planning group list were 16 April. Further to the conversations on the main MAG list, it’d be good to follow the sort of procedures used in previous years and have interactive dialogue and collective decision making.

We agreed on the previous MAG call to do this session in two steps, the external environment impacting IGF and its role, and from which IGF can learn (NM, CSTD, WSIS10, ITU, etc); and then turn to how the IGF can strengthen its processes in order to step up and help fill the gaps (inter alia so that dialogue doesn’t all redirect to less inclusive organizations and alliances).

So some questions:

1. Title: "Evolution of Internet Governance Ecosystem/Role of the IGF - Reaction to NETmundial + CSTD + WSIS, ITU, other fora”. Would it not make sense to tweak this rather long title? The first half would seem fine to me without the second if we just replaced "/" with “and the.” Thoughts?

2. The session description that would appear in the program would need to be recalibrated to reflect the evolution. I’m not clear which of the bits of text I’ve seen constitute the current draft description, so if that could be shared for consideration it’d be really helpful.

3. Speakers: the last message I saw, on the main MAG list, listed the following:

>> On 7 May 2014 16:53, Subi Chaturvedi <subichaturvedi at gmail.com<mailto:subichaturvedi at gmail.com>> wrote:

>>> SUGGESTED- (Open to inputs/Suggestions)
>>>
>>> A. The strands/org identified are:
>>> 1. IGF- Janis Karklins
>>> 2. ITU- Hamadoun Toure’
>>> 3. ICANN- Fadi Chehade’
>>> 4. ISOC- Kathy Brown/ Markus Kummer
>>> 5. IETF-Jari Arkko
>>> 6. W3C- Tim Berners Lee
>>> 7. Netmundial- Amb. Fonseka/Prof. Virgilio (Chair)
>>>
>>> B. Stakeholder Speakers (Suggested)
>>> 1. Academia: Milton Mueller/ Stephanie Parrin/ Wolfgang Kleinwächter
>>> 2. Civil Society: Nnenna, Jovan (Diplo)/ Ron Dilbert (Citizen Lab)
>>> 3. Technical Community: Avri Doria, Byron Holland (CIRA)
>>> 4. Private Sector: Vint Cert, Zahid Jamil
>>> 5. Government: 2-3 (from developing country and another from the developed C) Proposed names - Neelie Kroes VP-EU and Ed Vaizy (The Swedish ministers have also been vocal and then there’s Marco Civil. Requesting one from BRICS (Brazil, India, Russia China, South Africa might work here.)

I have a couple concerns here. First, I hope we are not falling back into the trap of building enormous panels, because it has been proven time and again for a decade not to work well. If we do serial talking head prepared comments we end up with a disaster, it’s boring and there’s no time for audience interaction. If we do a more moderator-driven talk show interactive format, it gets awkward keeping everyone in the discussion and the discussion well focused. I’ve co-moderated a few main session with big panels agreed by previous MAG+ planning groups and while they were interesting enough, it was a challenge to avoid having multiple conversational threads dangling with a big group commenting in different directions.

Second, I’m not clear on how Suggested became Decided, but I know several folks who have been invited already and assume there have been others. In previous years this was handled in a different, collectively agreed manner.

Could we please have an update on who has been invited already, and who has accepted? And can we please hold off on going further down that road until there’s been dialogue and everyone’s on board? There are 18 people subscribed to this list and I’m guessing I am not the only one here who doesn’t quite understand where we are or how we got here. Either way, it would be good for us to proceed from here together.

Thanks,

Bill


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