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

[Makane Faye]

Dear Bill,
Dear Colleagues,

I believe we have *216* proposals to  evaluate. I spent the entire weekend
trying to look at each proposal. For each proposal,  if we spend an average
of 5 minutes, we would be spending over 1,000 minutes for the overall
grading.  If this is done in plenary, we may spend the whole 3 days in the
evaluation only.

Best regards,

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:37 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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