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Max Senges
Jul 1, 2008, 11:41:45 AM7/1/08
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hi everybody
please find jerermy's proposal for a igf community site below. i quite like it and we should see how we can make it fly!
also did we send our service offering to the DCs? i havent seen the message, but i am happy to send it to the IBR and the privacy coalition
Max
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; ... so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(Paris Sorbonne,1910)
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Dr. Max Senges
Stanford Post-Doc Visiting Scholar
UOC Research Associate
Freelance Consultant
98 Loyola Ave., Menlo Park, California 94025
US-Phone: (001) 650 714 9826
www.maxsenges.com
www.knowledgeentrepreneur.com
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please find jerermy's proposal for a igf community site below. i quite like it and we should see how we can make it fly!
also did we send our service offering to the DCs? i havent seen the message, but i am happy to send it to the IBR and the privacy coalition
Max
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From: Jeremy Malcolm <jer...@malcolm.id.au>
Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:53 AM
Subject: [OCDC] Consensus call on IGF Virtual Community proposal
To: igf-...@igf-online.net
As discussed in the last message to this list, from 1 to 30 June the wiki page at http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community was open for editing of a draft requirements document for the work needed to transform the IGF's existing Web presence from a static and isolated site into the kernel of a vibrant virtual community.
Based on the timetable posted on the wiki, we have from 1 to 7 July 2008 to try to reach consensus on the document, on the basis of a "lazy consensus" which means that there are a few positive comments without any unresolved objections. From there, I will obtain an independent quote to implement the proposal, and post that back here in about a month before the deadline for contributions to the next open consultation meeting.
So please check out http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community and post back here to say whether you agree with the requirements document as-is, or disagree with it, or have any minor suggestions that we can resolve during the coming week.
To save you a mouse-click here is the text of the current document:
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This is a draft requirements document for building an online community for the IGF, at least equivalent to those of other Internet governance institutions such as the IETF etc. The focus here is not on remote participation, which although also important, is being dealt with elsewhere. Discussion can take place here.
Rationale
=========
The establishment of the IGF was an ambitious innovation in global governance for the Internet. Whereas earlier Internet governance institutions such as the IETF, the RIRs, and to some extent ICANN, emerged largely from the grassroots of the Internet technical community and utilised principally online working methods from the outset, the IGF is the first new Internet governance institution to be structured principally as a face-to-face annual meeting, and aside from the activities of its dynamic coalitions, it remains set in that form.
Whilst this may have provided a more natural means of engagement for some stakeholders from outside the Internet technical community, it has distanced the IGF from ordinary Internet users and limited its potential to draw in the breadth of community engagement that the other Internet governance institutions mentioned above have enjoyed. Thus even when mechanisms such as Webcasting have been provided to bridge the annual meeting with online users, these have been underutilised because remote users have not felt part of the same community as those meeting in person.
To improve the mechanisms of remote participation made available by the IGF therefore only addresses part of the problem. What is more important is that the IGF produce a virtual community to motivate a broad cross-section of users, including those who cannot afford to attend the annual meetings, to participate actively and enthusiastically in year-round policy dialogue. In short, the IGF must welcome online discourse as a principal means of engagement in its activities, not merely as an adjunct to its discrete annual meetings.
To date, the IGF has fallen short in this. Where other Internet governance institutions host vibrant and effective virtual discussions that benefit from the unique discursive properties of the online environment, the IGF does not. The development of such a virtual community for the IGF has been limited by a number of factors, and it is the purpose of this requirements document to set those out, and to sketch the institutional, technical and social modifications that the IGF should commit to if it wishes to foster the development of a more engaging online environment for the IGF community.
What the IGF already has
========================
Official Web site
-----------------
* Static pages, manually maintained navigation and ad-hoc archival
* Manually maintained ACL for event organisers to update event information
* Semi-automated management of event information
* No programmatic access to metadata such as calendar files
* Interactivity limited to a manually maintained RSS feed
* No site map, search or user-generated content
* Limited support for asynchronous discussion (the official Web forum)
* Limited support for synchronous discussion (the official Webcast and chat client)
* No support for collaborative editing, decision-making, social networking or multilingualisation
IGF Community Site (http://igf-online.net)
------------------------------------------
* Not supported by the Secretariat, developed by the Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition
* Single sign-on with OpenID to centralised community Wiki and blog site
* Shared but manually-maintained links to official and community resources in header menu
* Flexible support for asynchronous discussion (hybrid mailing lists and Web forum)
* Limited support for synchronous discussion (IRC channel and Web gateway)
* Flexible support for collaborative editing (wiki)
* No support for decision-making or social networking
* Limited content aggregation (RSS, not enhanced by metadata)
* Limited multilingualisation support
Host country sites
------------------
* Static, manually maintained content
* Do not share data with official or community Web sites
* No support for any of the forms of online democratic engagement
Other
-----
* Social networking through unofficial IGF Facebook group
* Does not share data with official or other community Web sites
What changes are required
=========================
Institutional
-------------
* It should be possible to register as an IGF stakeholder without attending a meeting in person
* Rather than the IGF's plenary activity being limited to an annual meeting that meeting should cap a programme of online intersessional work
* The official Web site should be unified or closely integrated with community and host country resources
* Data from the official IGF Web site should be programmatically accessible and tagged for reuse:
- User registration details
- Calendar of events
- Live transcripts
- Dynamic coalitions
- Stakeholder contributions
* Funding should be sought for online resources just as it is allocated for the annual meeting
Technical
---------
* Unified registration system for IGF annual meetings, sub-events and IGF online resources
* Rich ACL providing roles for Secretariat, Advisory Group, Dynamic Coalitions and others
* Registration details can be shared with community Web sites and events using OpenSocial API
* RSS+Dublin Core metadata engine to unify data from official and community sources
* Multi-modal online participation should be facilitated where possible (eg. email, Web, RSS)
* Unified set of themes for IGF sites (differentiating between official and community resources)
* Engine to gate live transcripts to IRC, Jabber, Second Life, etc
* Event information made available in iCalendar format
* All workshops and events to have access to integrated online fora
* Extension and unification of existing facilities for asynchronous and synchronous discussion
* Extension of existing facilities for collaborative editing (eg. add polling support)
Social
------
* Appointed volunteer rapporteurs to bridge online and offline fora
* Outreach programme to existing online communities of Internet users
* Capacity building for government stakeholders in the use of online resources
--
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
host -t NAPTR 1.0.8.0.3.1.2.9.8.1.6.e164.org|awk -F! '{print $3}'
From: Jeremy Malcolm <jer...@malcolm.id.au>
Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:53 AM
Subject: [OCDC] Consensus call on IGF Virtual Community proposal
To: igf-...@igf-online.net
As discussed in the last message to this list, from 1 to 30 June the wiki page at http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community was open for editing of a draft requirements document for the work needed to transform the IGF's existing Web presence from a static and isolated site into the kernel of a vibrant virtual community.
Based on the timetable posted on the wiki, we have from 1 to 7 July 2008 to try to reach consensus on the document, on the basis of a "lazy consensus" which means that there are a few positive comments without any unresolved objections. From there, I will obtain an independent quote to implement the proposal, and post that back here in about a month before the deadline for contributions to the next open consultation meeting.
So please check out http://wiki.igf-online.net/wiki/IGF_Virtual_Community and post back here to say whether you agree with the requirements document as-is, or disagree with it, or have any minor suggestions that we can resolve during the coming week.
To save you a mouse-click here is the text of the current document:
---
This is a draft requirements document for building an online community for the IGF, at least equivalent to those of other Internet governance institutions such as the IETF etc. The focus here is not on remote participation, which although also important, is being dealt with elsewhere. Discussion can take place here.
Rationale
=========
The establishment of the IGF was an ambitious innovation in global governance for the Internet. Whereas earlier Internet governance institutions such as the IETF, the RIRs, and to some extent ICANN, emerged largely from the grassroots of the Internet technical community and utilised principally online working methods from the outset, the IGF is the first new Internet governance institution to be structured principally as a face-to-face annual meeting, and aside from the activities of its dynamic coalitions, it remains set in that form.
Whilst this may have provided a more natural means of engagement for some stakeholders from outside the Internet technical community, it has distanced the IGF from ordinary Internet users and limited its potential to draw in the breadth of community engagement that the other Internet governance institutions mentioned above have enjoyed. Thus even when mechanisms such as Webcasting have been provided to bridge the annual meeting with online users, these have been underutilised because remote users have not felt part of the same community as those meeting in person.
To improve the mechanisms of remote participation made available by the IGF therefore only addresses part of the problem. What is more important is that the IGF produce a virtual community to motivate a broad cross-section of users, including those who cannot afford to attend the annual meetings, to participate actively and enthusiastically in year-round policy dialogue. In short, the IGF must welcome online discourse as a principal means of engagement in its activities, not merely as an adjunct to its discrete annual meetings.
To date, the IGF has fallen short in this. Where other Internet governance institutions host vibrant and effective virtual discussions that benefit from the unique discursive properties of the online environment, the IGF does not. The development of such a virtual community for the IGF has been limited by a number of factors, and it is the purpose of this requirements document to set those out, and to sketch the institutional, technical and social modifications that the IGF should commit to if it wishes to foster the development of a more engaging online environment for the IGF community.
What the IGF already has
========================
Official Web site
-----------------
* Static pages, manually maintained navigation and ad-hoc archival
* Manually maintained ACL for event organisers to update event information
* Semi-automated management of event information
* No programmatic access to metadata such as calendar files
* Interactivity limited to a manually maintained RSS feed
* No site map, search or user-generated content
* Limited support for asynchronous discussion (the official Web forum)
* Limited support for synchronous discussion (the official Webcast and chat client)
* No support for collaborative editing, decision-making, social networking or multilingualisation
IGF Community Site (http://igf-online.net)
------------------------------------------
* Not supported by the Secretariat, developed by the Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition
* Single sign-on with OpenID to centralised community Wiki and blog site
* Shared but manually-maintained links to official and community resources in header menu
* Flexible support for asynchronous discussion (hybrid mailing lists and Web forum)
* Limited support for synchronous discussion (IRC channel and Web gateway)
* Flexible support for collaborative editing (wiki)
* No support for decision-making or social networking
* Limited content aggregation (RSS, not enhanced by metadata)
* Limited multilingualisation support
Host country sites
------------------
* Static, manually maintained content
* Do not share data with official or community Web sites
* No support for any of the forms of online democratic engagement
Other
-----
* Social networking through unofficial IGF Facebook group
* Does not share data with official or other community Web sites
What changes are required
=========================
Institutional
-------------
* It should be possible to register as an IGF stakeholder without attending a meeting in person
* Rather than the IGF's plenary activity being limited to an annual meeting that meeting should cap a programme of online intersessional work
* The official Web site should be unified or closely integrated with community and host country resources
* Data from the official IGF Web site should be programmatically accessible and tagged for reuse:
- User registration details
- Calendar of events
- Live transcripts
- Dynamic coalitions
- Stakeholder contributions
* Funding should be sought for online resources just as it is allocated for the annual meeting
Technical
---------
* Unified registration system for IGF annual meetings, sub-events and IGF online resources
* Rich ACL providing roles for Secretariat, Advisory Group, Dynamic Coalitions and others
* Registration details can be shared with community Web sites and events using OpenSocial API
* RSS+Dublin Core metadata engine to unify data from official and community sources
* Multi-modal online participation should be facilitated where possible (eg. email, Web, RSS)
* Unified set of themes for IGF sites (differentiating between official and community resources)
* Engine to gate live transcripts to IRC, Jabber, Second Life, etc
* Event information made available in iCalendar format
* All workshops and events to have access to integrated online fora
* Extension and unification of existing facilities for asynchronous and synchronous discussion
* Extension of existing facilities for collaborative editing (eg. add polling support)
Social
------
* Appointed volunteer rapporteurs to bridge online and offline fora
* Outreach programme to existing online communities of Internet users
* Capacity building for government stakeholders in the use of online resources
--
Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
host -t NAPTR 1.0.8.0.3.1.2.9.8.1.6.e164.org|awk -F! '{print $3}'
--
-------------------------------------------------
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; ... so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
(Paris Sorbonne,1910)
-------------------------------------------------
Dr. Max Senges
Stanford Post-Doc Visiting Scholar
UOC Research Associate
Freelance Consultant
98 Loyola Ave., Menlo Park, California 94025
US-Phone: (001) 650 714 9826
www.maxsenges.com
www.knowledgeentrepreneur.com
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