[IGFmaglist] [Evolintgov2014] IGF Main Session - Evolution of IG Ecosystem-Update

Sat Aug 9 04:09:05 EDT 2014

Dear MAG colleagues,

Thank you for your tremendous forts in pulling main sessions together and making them interesting and useful for everybody.

The methodology which has been chosen in the early stages (decentralized, community driven) inevitably lead to some duplication in inviting speakers. As we see all organizers reach out to th most prominent representatives of  stakeholder groups and it is natural.

In February we discussed that the MAG members should exercise self-restraint in proposing workshops and participating in the sessions. This understanding should not be interpreted as a blanket ban but rather invitation. If all other options turn to be unfeasible the MAG members may be called for a rescue. All MAG members are experts in their respective fields with big experience in IG issues undoubtedly.

Fiona’s proposal to prepare Main session organization guidelines for the next round sounds good to me as every edition of IGF has provided some lessons that may be documented for the future. I do not expect guidelines revolutionize the process but rather serve as a reference point that all facilitators use the same set of principles.

We can discuss these ideas further during the conference call that is step for 19 August noon UTC.

Best regards

JK

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From: 'Bhatia, Virat'
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎August‎ ‎8‎, ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎43‎ ‎PM
To: Fiona Alexander, Subi Chaturvedi
Cc: igfmaglist at intgovforum.org, evolintgov2014

Dear MAG Members,

With regards to duplication of names, this is essentially occurring for 2 reasons:

(i)      First when organizers inadvertently invite the same people on their session without knowing that the same person may have been invited elsewhere. (No one’s fault.)

(ii)    When those who refer / volunteer names send the same name to multiple organizers. We had one such situation with another main session but that has now been resolved amicably.

For ease of reference, I am including the list of speakers for the main session on “Policies Enabling Access, Growth and Development” to be held on Day 2 morning.  Hopefully this will help avoid duplications for other session to the extent possible.  There may be a couple of additions from the civil society side but we are trying to get a new voice, possibly from Ecuador, or Kenya or Brazil. 

The question is, whether there can be a “hard and fast” regarding “one main session only” for speakers, beyond the self-imposed limit for MAG members on themselves?   If yes, we need a process for better information sharing, since organizers can easily be blindsided by 5 lists running simultaneously and several cross emails. Something to think about for 2015 process improvements.

To bring a swift closure to the remaining main sessions – ( 3 week left), one request for those who are now contributing names to the list. When sending references, please send details about stakeholder group, country / regions of residence / work and email ID.  Further, if at all possible, please pre-check their availability before sending their reference.  This would be tremendously helpful in locking down speakers, especially new voices. 

 At times organizers spend days getting hold of contacts / email IDs (due to time difference), and then many days awaiting a response from proposed speakers, who have no idea that their names have been volunteered by someone else. 

So in summary:

(i)      Please fell feel to refer to the Access / Development speaker list provided below (to avoid duplication);  and, 

(ii)    Please send in full details of all speakers, preferably after checking their availability and interest (given the acute shortage of time in the run-up to IGF).    

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(i)          International Organizations

·        Mr. Getachew Engida,  Deputy Director General, UNESCO

·        Mr. Tomas Lamanauskas, Head,  Corporate Strategy Division, ITU

(ii)          Government:

·        Dr. Hoda Baraka,  Advisor to the Minister of ICT,  Govt. of Qatar

·        Dr. Norberto Berner, Secretary of Communications, Govt.  of Argentina

·        Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda, Dy. Assistant Secretary of State & U.S. Coordinator for Int’l Communications, United States Govt. 

·        Ms. Omobola Johnson,  Minister of Communications Technology, Govt. of Nigeria 

·        Ms. Neelie Kroes,  European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, European Union 

·        Mr. Jackson Miake,  Office of the Govt. CIO – Prime Minister's Office, Govt. of the Republic of Vanuatu

·        Ms. Salam Yamout,  National ICT Strategy Coordinator, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Govt. of Lebanon

(iii)           Civil Society

·        Dr. (Ms) Alison Gillwald,   Research ICT Africa, South Africa

·        Mr. Guo Liang,  Director & Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

·        Mr. Henri Malosse, President of the European Economic and Social Committee, EU 

·        Ms. Joana Varon, Center for Technology & Society / Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil

(iv)          Technical Community

·        Ms. Kathryn Brown,   CEO, ISOC,

·        Mr. Mike Jensen,  Internet Access Specialist, Brazil APC, Brazil

·        Professor David Reed,  University of Colorado, USA

·        Mr. Rohan Samarajiva,  Chair, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka

(v)          Private Sector

·        Mr. Hossam El-Gamal,  Board Member and Treasurer, AFICTA, Egypt

·        Mr. Rajan Mathews,  Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India, India

·        Ms.  Funke Opeke,  CEO Main One Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria

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Trust this is helpful, 

Regards,

Virat Bhatia

From: Igfmaglist [mailto:igfmaglist-bounces at intgovforum.org] On Behalf Of Fiona Alexander
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 4:21 PM
To: Subi Chaturvedi
Cc: MAG-public; evolintgov2014
Subject: Re: [IGFmaglist] [Evolintgov2014] IGF Main Session - Evolution of IG Ecosystem-Update

I will check back with my USG colleagues but what is the difference between being on the panel and an intervention? 

As a general matter,  at some point the MAG will need to look across the package of main sessions to ensure diversity of speakers.   Seems to be a lot of familiar names, multiple times.  Not for now, but perhaps the next cycle the MAG should consider developing main session guidelines.

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From: Subi Chaturvedi 

Date:08/08/2014 6:39 AM (GMT-05:00) 

To: Fiona Alexander 

Cc: evolintgov2014 , MAG-public , Marilyn Cade 

Subject: Re: [IGFmaglist] [Evolintgov2014] IGF Main Session - Evolution of IG Ecosystem-Update 

Fiona I was  informed by Marilyn after consultation with Andrew from the state department that Ambassador Sepulveda will be making an intervention from USG. He's been coordinating this with Marilyn. 

Would you recommend two speakers? Larry makes perfect sense in the first half about evolution of the Internet Ecosystem on the IANA transition. If the others are in agreement than your help in approaching him would be very welcome. 

Regards

Subi

On 7 August 2014 16:24, Fiona Alexander <FAlexander at ntia.doc.gov> wrote:

I too am a bit lost but note that Larry Strickling is listed as a possible speaker.   Tony knowledge NTIA has not been contacted regarding this request.  If there is a desire to have a US Government speaker please let me know ASAP and we can find one. 

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From: William Drake 

Date:08/07/2014 6:27 AM (GMT-05:00) 

To: evolintgov2014 

Cc: MAG-public 

Subject: Re: [IGFmaglist] [Evolintgov2014] IGF Main Session - Evolution of IG Ecosystem-Update 

Hi 

I must admit I’m rather lost here, how are we proceeding with this session?   I’d previously compiled and sent a few times the list of all names people had suggested as possible speakers on the two panels.  The last version was sent to the mail list on 25 July.  Since then there’s been no collective discussion about options and who might be optimal on which panel. There have been a references to bilateral private conversations, a few requests by MAG members for speaking slots for themselves or their colleagues (which is a bit awkward), and a few confirmations that people invited previously have agreed to participate.  I’m sorry for being old fashioned but all previous main session planning groups I’ve participated in over the years worked in a more transparent and participatory way and got to consensus more quickly, so I just don’t know how to track this one’s progress.  It would be good if we could move this forward to a solid conclusion on a consensual basis.  We are behind schedule...

Session title: As suggested previously, "Main/Focus Session: Evolution of Internet Governance Ecosystem/Role of the IGF - Reaction to NETmundial + CSTD + WSIS, ITU, other fora” seems a bit awkward, we might want to lose the subtitle, unless we’re going to expanding it to cover everything happening in the wider environment, e.g. NM, NM Initiative, etc etc.

Descriptive text: what’s in the program paper seems dated.

Speakers/Moderators: [is the below still current?]

Panel 1: Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem*

      [including per Janis the NM Initiative]

Moderator: TBD  

Panelists:

1. Fadi Chehade (ICANN)  [Confirmed (Bahar)]
2. Hamadoun Toure’ (ITU)   [Invited, TBC]
3. Milton Mueller (Syracuse U.)   [Confirmed (Subi)]

Panel 2: The Role of the IGF

1. Kathy Brown (ISOC)   [Confirmed (Constance)]
2. Vint Cerf (Google)  [Invited, TBC]

Moderator options suggested so far (leaving off MAG members for now): 

Jeanette Hofmann (CS) 
Sam Dickinson (TC)

Panelist options suggested so far (generally leaving off MAG members for now): 

Government/IGO:
Neelie Kroes, EC [confirmed (Subi)…for which panel?]
Rafał Trzaskowski (Poland, confirmed availability to Igor…for panel 1?)
Robert Shlegel (Russia, MAG, confirms himself)
Norberto Berner (Argentina)
Benedicto Fonseca (Brazil)
Larry Strickling (US)
Ed Vaizy (UK)
Mohammed AlQurashi (KSA)
Alice Munyua (AU)

Private Sector:

Danil Kerimi (WEF)
Philipp Grabensee (Affilias)
Zahid Jamil (Jamil & Jamil)
Phil Rushton (BT)
Jimson Olufuye (WITSA) 

Technical Community:

Jari Arkko (IETF)
Tim Berners Lee (W3C)
Virgilio Almeida (Brazil/NM)
Byron Holland (CIRA)
Geoff Huston (APNIC)
Adiel Akplogan (AFRINIC)

Civil Society:

Jeremy Malcolm (EFF)
Stephanie Perrin (UT)
Wolfgang Kleinwächter (ICANN)
Nnenna Nwakanma (WWWF)
Jovan Kurbalija (Diplo)
Ron Deibert (Citizen Lab)
Marilia Maciel (FGV) 
Adam Peake (Glocom)

Does anyone have input on how we can complete the line-ups?

Bill

On Aug 1, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Subi Chaturvedi <subichaturvedi at gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you Igor. Will follow your lead.

regards

Subi

On 1 August 2014 13:51, Igor Ostrowski <igor at ostrowski.waw.pl> wrote:

Subi, 

apologies for the delay.  Here is the info:

Minister of Administration and Digitalization, Poland

Doctor of political sciences, academic lecturer specializing in European affairs. From 2009, Member of European Parliament, where he dealt with the implementation of EU treaties and European Digital Agenda, including e-commerce and privacy issues. Since November 2013, Minister of Administration and Digitalization.  Thanks to his efforts, issues surrounding Internet governance and advocacy of the multistakeholder approach have been treated with top priority by the Polish government.  Active participation in the NetMundial conference and creation of IGF Polska are a few examples of his recent activities.

It's best to contact him thru the Head of his Cabinet:  Joanna.Popielawska at mac.gov.pl

Best

Igor 

On Jul 30, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Subi Chaturvedi <subichaturvedi at gmail.com> wrote:

Many thanks Igor.

Pls share a brief profile and email co-ordinates.

Collecting it for all the speakers.

Regards 

Subi

On 30 Jul 2014 15:40, "Igor Ostrowski" <igor at ostrowski.waw.pl> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Rafał Traskowski - Gov Stakeholder Group (PL Minister of Administration and Digitization) hs confirmed his availability as well 
>
> Best
> Igor
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Subi Chaturvedi <subichaturvedi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Two senior colleagues Mrs. Kroes (EU) -Stakeholder group-Gov.
>> And Milton Mueller(Academia/Civil Society) have confirmed their availability in addition to Ms. Kathy Brown *ISOC)-; Technical Community.
>>
>> Colleagueas on the MAG do please confirm if your organisation's participating. You've been copied on all mails which were sent out previously.
>>
>> There's a call scheduled between the two co-leads and Mathew and Markus have also provided inputs along with substantive inputs from Constance, Vlada, Bill, Paul, Olga, Ana and others. Not sure if Markus will be on the call today but we have a wide pool of options from accross stakeholder groups and some names for moderators to choose from.
>>
>> All of them have been metaculously documented across several emails.
>>
>> Your inputs have been most conducive.
>>
>> Today there will be discussion further on refining format and policy questions.
>>
>> Suggestions pertaining to :
>> 1. Exact nos. Of questions to be adressed, so that we keep maximum time for participation and interventions from the floor and non facilitators. 
>> 2. Format:
>> A-no moderator
>> B-4 moderators
>> C-deep well with identified interventions for 3 mins each and then abt 40 minute long interventions from different stakeholder groups for each of the two halves.  Total of 80 interventions.
>> D. A general chair some disucussants and then open mic with audience interventions only
>> E. A roundtable with concentric circles
>> D. An open space
>>
>> 3.Contact details of speakers recommended by you
>> (We hope to send out invites by the end of this week, since inputs have been received on session format the moratorium imposed on inviting speakers can I believe be lifted to give them enough notice to block their calenders)
>> (Olga I have your recommendations down) and some are self nominations.  So we have them too.
>> Need Patrick's, Bill's and Igor's.
>>
>> 4. Some Govt. And CS groups in particular are travelling with youth volunteers.  Can they join us too for the session? Would they like to nominate some? Participants from the Dynamic Coalition on core Internet values will have some.
>>
>> Any other inputs.
>>
>> If anybody else wishes to join the call, please feel free and contact Ms. Marilyn Cade to join in.
>>
>> We'll be updating the list soon.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Subi
>>
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