[IGFmaglist] Online registration for May Open Consultations and MAG meeting

[William Drake]

Hi

There was some discussion on the last call about the Paris meeting breaking down into groups to consider proposals according to themes.  I would have some concerns about that procedure if it were to lead to outcomes like last year’s, in which some groups were very strict and didn’t approve workshops that didn’t surpass the numerical cut-off point, while other groups were more permissive and for various reasons approved workshops that hadn’t made the numerical cut-off.  There was also some lack of clarity as to whether we were trying to adjust to achieve some measure of comparability across themes, e.g. since some themes attracted @ 50-60 proposals while others got @ 10, did we need to ‘prune’ more in the former case, etc.  

So I’m wondering what the thinking is regarding break out sessions by themes, e.g. dis/advantages relative to doing everything together in ‘plenary.’  

If this approach is to be followed, it’d also be good to know how remote participation would be accommodated.  I don’t imagine I am the only MAG member without funding to come to Paris….Actually, it might be worth knowing, when making decisions on how to organize the work, how many of us will in fact be remote?

Best,

Bill


On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Chengetai Masango <CMASANGO at unog.ch> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Online registration for the May Open consultations and MAG meeting is now open until the 15 of May.
> 
> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/registrations-for-open-consultations-and-mag-meeting-paris
> 
> I will send out the draft agenda soon.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Chengetai 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Igfmaglist mailing list
> Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org
> http://mail.intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org

***********************************************
William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
william.drake at uzh.ch (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com (lists),
  www.williamdrake.org
***********************************************

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://intgovforum.org/pipermail/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org/attachments/20140429/5091104e/attachment.htm>