[IGFmaglist] Taking Stock/Emerging Issues Main Session

Thu Jul 17 04:04:24 EDT 2014

+ 1. I fully agree, time has come for the IGF to start intersessional work and Mark's outline is an excellent start!

Maybe this is also on opportunity to clarify the work of the Dynamic Coalitions. Some of them want to/ought to play a role in intersessional activities, but their mandate needs to be validated by the community if we want to have sufficient buy-in.

A word of clarification regarding Constance's outline, as it might create some confusion. The Chair of the annual IGF meeting is, according to UN tradition, provided by the Host Country (usually a Minister or Senior Official). There is one Chairman' s Report (or Chairman's Summary) of the meeting, prepared by the IGF Secretariat in the name of the Chairman and approved by the Chairman and his Host Country team. The report, summarizing the first three days of the meeting is usually ready in the afternoon of the fourth day and presented by the Chairman at the closing ceremony. I would suggest keeping it this way, in order to avoid confusion.

The MAG Chair is in charge of the preparatory process and, after the meeting, follow-up and implementation. Here we are talking about the latter. Taking stock of what happened during the meeting and looking ahead. This clearly would be the session for Janis to chair.

Best regards
Markus

On Jul 17, 2014, at 9:38, "William Drake" <wjdrake at gmail.com<mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi

I strongly support Mark’s suggestions, it’s increasingly important to get concrete and action-oriented on ways to move forward.

Best

Bill

On Jul 16, 2014, at 7:03 PM, CARVELL, Mark <Mark.Carvell at Culture.gsi.gov.uk<mailto:Mark.Carvell at Culture.gsi.gov.uk>> wrote:

Dear MAG colleagues

Thank you Constance: I welcome this proposal in identifying the principal operational objective for this session which is to commission further work to be undertaken inter-sessionally and reported back to the 2015 IGF. That would not be simply a revisit or update of these emerging issues one year on - but crucially a measure of how they have advanced with concrete progress, identifying what more needs to be done, and assessing whether a sufficient range of options, solutions and/or opportunities (e.g. for capacity building) has been successfully identified through this distributed inter-sessional activity.

I would add one more step to assist the IGF Chair with his report: the Taking Stock/Emerging Issues session should be tasked with identifying and soliciting potential leads foir the inter-sessional workstreams, from amongst the national and regional IGFs as well as other Internet governance entities, standards bodies and processes. The identification of these leads could be provisional, not set in stone, but reviewed (perhaps by the MAG?) after a short period (8-10 weeks?) following the IGF, in order to finalise expectations and the programmes of work. This time period would also allow other entities time to consider and take decisions whether they would pick up any inter-sessional workstreams.

It will also be important for the chairs or rapporteurs of the other IGF Main Sessions to take account of the outcomes and conclusions from the relevant workshops and dynamic coalitions in Istanbul (e.g. on net neutrality) prior to reporting into the Taking Stock/Emerging Issues main session. I’m not sure how this “feeder” functionality can be best realised within a tight timeframe but I think tangibly securing these thematic linkages is important, not only for enhancing the cohesion of the Internet Governance Forum as an event with many strands, but also for ensuring that the subsequent programme of inter-sessional activity does not replicate or duplicate exchanges and preparatory activities already undertaken before or at Istanbul.

Kind regards

Mark

Mark Carvell
DCMS: Global Internet Governance Policy
United Kingdom Government
Tel +44 20- 7211 6062

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Sent: 16 July 2014 17:12
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Subject: [IGFmaglist] Taking Stock/Emerging Issues Main Session

Dear MAG colleagues,

This is to collect your thoughts on the organization of the Main Session Taking Stock / Emerging Issues (day 4, 5 Sept. )

A possible structure could be to invite the chairs/rapporteurs of other Main Sessions (Development, Net neutrality, Ecosystem evolution, Best practices, IANA transition) to:

  *   Share the main outpus of their group's discussion;
  *   Identify emerging issues that could be picked-up through inter-sessional work between IGF 2014 and IGF 2015.

Each rapporteur would limit itself to 5-7 min (30 - 35 min in total). Then, my understanding is that the host country would present its report, as well as the Chair (30 min in total). The final portion of the session (30 min) would be for interaction with the audience with the understanding that during the Open mic session (afternoon of the same day) people can further comment on topics.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome.

Thank you and best regards,

--
Constance Bommelaer
Senior Director, Global Policy Partnerships
The Internet Society
www.isoc.org<http://www.isoc.org/>

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Constance Bommelaer <bommelaer at isoc.org<mailto:bommelaer at isoc.org>> wrote:
Hi Janis,

Before I send a note to the MAG list regarding the structure of the Taking Stock/Emerging Issues Main Session (I have been listed as organizer), I wanted to touch base with you.

A possible structure could be to invite the chairs/rapporteur from each Main Session:

  *   To share the main outputs of their group's discussion.
  *   To identify emerging issues that could be picked-up through inter-sessional work between IGF 2014 and IGF 2015.

The challenge will be to keep enough time for interaction with the audience though.

I recall you had a clear idea on how to organize the discussion. Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
Constance

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