Fwd: Your DC Session Submission

[Amali De Silva - Mitchell]

Dear  Celine and UN Secretariat

I donot believe there will be an immediate alignment with the other DC on health for our own DC focus this year. Our focuses are quite different. We take a patient / citizen focus which is at 180 degrees to the other health DCs institutional focus. We are bottom up while they are top down. The subject matter for this year will really focus on this differential. 

However, I will review the proposals and get back to you quickly on who we may be able to partner with. Our number One partner would be the DC on Libraries, but ofcourse, this depends on their overall focus as well. 

We had already began planning work with the DC on libraries, as a speaker and collaborator for our session. I will reach out to them independently to see if we can be their designated partner. I copy Maria on this email, as we have already discussed content for IGF. 

Will be back in touch with you, asap,

Kind regards, Amali

Amali De Silva - Mitchell MSC., CPA, CMA

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Celine Bal <celin...@un.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:42
Subject: Your DC Session Submission
To: Amali De Silva - Mitchell <gphli...@gmail.com>
Cc: IGF Secretariat <i...@un.org>

Dear Amali,

 

I hope this email finds you well.

 

I am reaching out to you as we are currently finalizing the selection of IGF session submissions.

 

As you may know, this year, we are having a more focused agenda, with less sessions on the programme. We had a total of 355 IGF sessions last year, which we will be narrowing down to around 250 sessions this year. We will be starting session an hour later (~09.30 instead of 08:30 last year) and finishing an hour earlier (~18:00 instead of 19:00 last year) to attract more participants to each IGF session. This is our response to the stock taking and feedback received from the community at the IGF 2023.

In addition, the IGF MAG is limiting the number of slots to sessions that are different than workshops (e.g., Networking Sessions, Launches & Awards, DC-Sessions).

 

As such, the Secretariat was encouraging DCs to partner/collaborate on joint DC-session submissions.

 

Could I kindly ask you to go through the list of received DC session proposals and let us know with which DCs you would be ready to collaborate on a joint session? (let us know about 2-3 different DC proposals, as we are reaching out to all right now, asking to merge and collaborate with other DCs).

 

IGF 2024 Dynamic Coalition Session Proposals Received | Internet Governance Forum (intgovforum.org)

 

We were thinking that it might be interesting for you to collaborate this year with the DC on Digital Health, which submitted the proposal #18 on Digital Health & Selfcare - Can we replace Doctors in PHCs.

 

Please let me know in case you have any questions or comments.

 

Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation and kind regards,

Celine

 

 

Celine Bal

Associate Programme Officer, Internet Governance Forum Secretariat

Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

 

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