[IGFmaglist] Concrete proposal for Main Sessions

[Juan Fernandez Gonzalez]

Dear Mark:

Thank you for commenting my proposal, whose purpose was to set the ball in motion, and certainly is open for improvement.

In that sense I agree with your proposal, if the 16:30 – 18:00 of day one is usable. And the slot that is freed in day 2 could be used for the WSIS+10 that certainly can use some more time.

Passing to another (very important) subject:

Congratulations for the graduation of your daughter!

My son graduated last week from the Computer Science University (UCI), so I categorically know that this event is a big must for you!

Enjoy that special moment!

Best regards

Juan

De: Mark Carvell [mailto:mark.carvell at culture.gov.uk]
Enviado el: jueves, 2 de julio de 2015 10:39
Para: Juan Fernandez Gonzalez
CC: Igfmaglist at intgovforum.org
Asunto: Re: [IGFmaglist] Concrete proposal for Main Sessions

1. Dear Juan

Many thanks for stepping forward with this first proposal for completing the programme. I have two suggestions to build on this.

IGF at 10 session

I think the IGF at 10 session might more usefully follow the Opening Ceremony in the empty slot of 16.30-18.00. I think there is a risk it will not secure much of an audience at the start of the first full day of IGF business on Day 2.  Two reasons I suggest for this.

Firstly, after formal opening statements many of which will likely express support for the IGF, there is a potential narrative flow to continue after the break with a detailed review of how the IGF has successfully evolved, building on experience, implementation of CSTD recommendations. With skilful presentations for this session when hopefully some ministers and senior officials will still be present, this narrative will empower those administrations in particular with detailed argument to deploy in New York when mandate renewal, the IGF track record, outputs, donor funding and bottom up programme setting modalities will be under some scrutiny. I think these are the target audience for this session and I expect those with tight dairies and long haul travel schedules who may have already been in Joao Pessao for the day zero high level leaders meeting and the opening ceremony on day one, may not be able to stay for a third day - certainly unlikely for my Minister.

Secondly, if this IGF at 10 session is retained on day 2, I think there is a risk it will not be well-attended as I suspect attendees will prefer to get stuck into the real IGF business of thematic workshops after sitting through the opening formalities on day 1 - adn as I say, what I see as the target audience may have largely left.

WSIS+10 session

I urge we provide more time for this than the 1.5 hour session you have provisioned on Day 2. I believe there are two elements to this time-critical session which we need to allow sufficient time for: firstly the opportunity for meaningful stakeholder interaction with the PGA and the co-facilitators (who I suspect may well decline to travel to Joao Pessoa if there is only a one shot session); and secondly for in depth consideration of the WSIS+10 zero draft. I recommend allowing 1.5 hours for each of these WSIS+10 review elements and they be held in the afternoon of day 2 to allow the PGA and Co-faciltators to travel from New York to Joao Pessoa in the morning if they have diary constraints (quite likely in November). If this session is in the morning, there is a risk they may not make it to the IGF.

That would mean moving the two slots on Sustainable Development to the morning: I agree that this should be three hours in total as there is so much ground to cover. I suggest it would be good to launch this session which directly intersects with the IGF main theme as early as possible in the programming for days 2-4 - so the morning of day 2 is desirable. Furthermore, there would also potentially be a read across from this session to the WSIS+10 session in the afternoon with some key "hot" messages on Internet and ICTs for sustainable development.

I hope these comments and suggestions are helpful for finalising the programme.

2. Dear Janis and Chengetai:   Unfortunately I have another unavoidable clash with the next MAG virtual meeting on 8 July: my daughter's graduation from Reading University: I'm afraid that 's a must for me! Please record my apologies for the record.

Kind regards

Mark

Mark Carvell
UK Government: Global Internet Governance Policy
+44 20 7211 6062




On 17 June 2015 at 22:23, Juan Fernandez Gonzalez <juan.fernandez at mincom.gob.cu<mailto:juan.fernandez at mincom.gob.cu>> wrote:
Dear Colleagues:

Please find attached a Concrete proposal for Main Sessions.

It contains 5 Thematic Sessions: Two of 3 hours and Three of 90 minutes.

Best regards

Juan

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