[IGFmaglist] Update on Best Practices Forums

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Agree very strongly with you Paul. I think the working group needs to
rethink the topic selection.

Anriette

On 16/04/2014 14:46, Paul Wilson wrote:
> Thanks Constance.  Very interesting survey.
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> To MAG members,
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> In answering this survey, about what are the most pressing or interesting topics of "best practice" to focus on in IGF, my assumption was that we would be looking at how specific day-to-day Internet governance issues are dealt with, by different stakeholder groups, in different contexts and with what levels of success.  To me this suggested sessions on really practical issues such as spam and online privacy, consumer/user safety, or encouraging IPv6 adoption: sessions where a range of approaches could be reported, compared, assessed, etc; and which could equip IGF delegates with new ideas or approaches to their own situations.
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> To be honest, I'm really surprised that the top subjects that the MAG sees for "best practice" are in fact meta-issues, relating to the conduct of Internet Governance itself, rather than the kinds of practical issues that I assumed.  I guess my view here is coloured by recent experience at the WTDC in Dubai, where I had a series of meetings with mostly Government folks, whose priorities were certainly not in "internet governance principles" or even how to run a good National IGF.  What I heard was a whole range of very specific and pressing concerns: how to protect users from abuses which are carried out via Internet services operated from other countries, how to track the sources of abuse and attribute online behaviour to specific perpetrators, how to deal with content which is regarded as unacceptable in a specific jurisdiction, etc etc.
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> I'd encourage us to consider such practical topics for best practice sessions at IGF.  The meta-issues do have a place at IGF, but it seems to me that if they become the focus of best practice sessions, then the IGF starts to look very circular and self-obsessed (to the extent of navel-gazing) rather than relevant to the concerns of a much wider community of interest and concern.
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> Thanks,
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> paul.
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> On 16/04/2014, at 9:48 PM, Constance Bommelaer <bommelaer at isoc.org> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> Many thanks for your feedback on the themes of the Best Practices Forums (draft guidelines reattached here). 
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>> In preparation of today's call, allow me to share rough results from the BPF's MAG consultation:
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>> 22 MAG members participated to the mini-survey. New suggestions of themes were made, all reflected in the chart below. 
>> In order of preference, the 3 top choices are the following: 
>> 	• Internet Governance Principles
>> 	• Regional and National IGFs
>> 	• Cybersecurity
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>> <66B6DFA9-CA55-4757-9358-E854004A631A.jpg>
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>> Best regards,
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>> -- 
>> Constance Bommelaer
>> Senior Director, Global Policy Partnerships
>> The Internet Society
>> www.isoc.org 
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