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

[Hossam Elgamal]

I thought prior to Paris meeting, statistics and aggregation in sub themes with well defined "Go - No Go - Need Workout" according to resulted collective evaluation would be concluded by the secretariat office (something similar to NetMundial final preparation exercise), so that we may have a very efficient and productive 3 days, focusing further on rest of the preparation for IGF 2014!

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On May 5, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Makane Faye <fmakane at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.  
> 
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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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