[IGFmaglist] Questions for Virtual meeting III

[Paul Wilson]

Anriette,

the meeting is today, in 5 minutes time, by my calculations…

> Topic: MAG Virtual Meeting III 
> Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 
> Time: 11:00 am UTC 
> Meeting Number: 955 620 167 
> Meeting Password: IGF2013 


Paul.





On 31/07/2013, at 8:27 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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