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

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi all,

I would like to support Bill's concern about the number of panelists. 
Personally, I wouldn't attend a main session with such an extensive 
number of speakers because it seems clear from the outset that they will 
use most of the speaking time. Most if not all of the suggested speakers 
are also know well enough and speak so often that not much new insights 
can be expected.

We had a few years with Nitin Desai as chair where main sessions were 
run without any panels and panelists. Instead, the audience did the 
talking. Some of these sessions were good, some of them less so. I 
wonder if it wouldn't make sense to reintroduce this format.

Best, Jeanette

Am 10.07.2014 16:11, schrieb Matthew Shears:
> While jumping in on this rather late - and recognizing the list of
> potential speakers is long -  I would be happy to be a panelist.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Matthew
>
> On 7/10/2014 10:06 AM, Constance Bommelaer wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *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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>> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>> University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
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