[IGFmaglist] Questions for Virtual meeting III

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear Chengetai, Markus and all

Thanks for details of the meeting tomorrow.

Here are the list of questions I would like us to address. Some came up
in the last few days in various civil society discussion spaces,
including the IGC list, and some I wanted to raise at the first meeting
as they related to the draft schedule that was distributed last week.

1) Cancellation rumours: we need an update. I am sure you are working on
that :)

2) Commercialisation of the Bali IGF represented by the
funding/sponsorship document from the Indonesian organising committee
circulated in the last few days.

- What is the status of this document? The copy I saw was on Google
docs, but I believe it has the same content as the one on the Host
country website marked as "revision 10b". It has since been removed.
- Is the Indonesian strategy (as represented in this document and if it
was indeed a formal document) different from previous IGF host country
sponsorship and branding strategies and does it comply with UN criteria?
Can we confirm that the organisers were aware of these criteria?
- Does the approach to sponsorship in the document risk sponsors having
influence over the IGF agenda and character?
- Was the document used and referenced in conversations with sponsors or
donors who have committed support? I.o.w. are they are any sponsors who
expect promises made in the document to be kept?
- Would not delivering on these promises put any of the money already
raised by the Indonesian organising committee at risk?
- More generally, what is permitted and what is not in terms of
branding/banners/benefits for sponsors?
- How does UNDESA and the Secretariat ensure compliance with these rules
or standards?

3) Workshop selection and Open Forums: it seems that rejected workshops
have found their way into the programme as Open Forums. If this is
indeed the case, we need to be clear that they meet the criteria and we
need to be fair and ensure that all rejected workshops were given equal
opportunity to 'reframe' as a different type of event. It would be good
for the secretariat to clarify. For example the joint open forum between
EBU, CoE and OSCE on independent journalism on the internet: how to
protect and finance it, and which role for the public service media. 
Sounds interesting, but it also sounds like a workshop.

4) Scheduling conflicts: I notice that several SOP related workshops are
in the same time slot as the SOP focus session.  We really, really
should try to avoid that.