Steering Committee - Mar 26 2024
From IGF-USA
Melinda Clem, Mike Nelson, Chelsea Horne, Bartlett, Karen Mulbery, Keith Drazek, Ann Morton, Jim Prendergast, Kenneth Merrill, Tom Bascom, Maka Taylor, Mia McAllister, Steve DelBianco, David Stradwick, Kathleen Scoggin
1. Welcome 2. Administrative details 3. Secretariat update 4. NRI coordination 5. Proposed format: nation-wide hybrid series (see below) 6. Call for topics review and selection 7. AOB Proposed Hybrid Series * Our current model has IGF-USA providing one long day of informative sessions at a venue in Washington DC. To better reach areas in the US and get closer to where more tech is happening, we need to be relevant in other locations. It is proposed that for 2024 we offer a series of hybrid “mini” events in different locations (including DC). Features and benefits: * Partial day for 2-3 sessions (panels, fireside chats, some combo), hosted in a small venue with a networking event tied to it. * Use smaller venues we can get as in-kind contribution or for smaller budget * All still available online * Target sessions close to where the experts are doing the work, rather than assume everyone comes to DC * Could also seek hosts for ‘remote viewing parties’ to increase networking opportunities * Gives us activity throughout the year * Better for maintaining interest and attention in short bursts (if not a whole day) * No overlapping sessions, each gets ample attention * Provides more avenues to promote our work * Gives us the opportunity to be responsive to new developments throughout the year
1. Welcome
2. Administrative details
- IGF
- Call for submissions for IGF is open
- NRI session prep - 3 sessions
- 1. Responsible governance of emerging tech.
- 2. Addressing dis and misinformation.
- 3. Inclusion of underserved countries in DNS industry
- Some people will not attend because location
- Some people may yet attend
- Multiple people from any NRI can join NRI WG
- Possibility of alternative meetings?
- Improved meetings
- Proposed Hybrid Series (see above)
- Logistics will cost - leader travel
- Suggestion: Community Colleges
- Suggestion: Call for venues
- New leadership in SF Bay Area ISOC
- Suggestion: Limit to 3
- Suggestion: Maintain DC as hub, and others as satellites.
- Suggestion: or not.
- Proposed Hybrid Series (see above)
6. Call for topics review and selection
- Panel groups 2024 spreadsheet
- 57 proposals
- Not constrained to one in each category.
- First: determine topic priorities
- Quantity of proposals not a determinant
- Suggestion: Deep dives on specific issue, with diversity of opinion, rather than hodgepodge
- Suggestion: Controversy is good
- Suggestion: Sort by topics, pick a lead, and let others merge into that.
- Suggestion: Agility in picking timely and locally hot topics
- Committee is not constrained to these proposals
- Internet Governance - at least 1
- Access & Digital Inclusion - not connectivity - digital cash / equity $$ in BEAD ?
7. Next call - Doodle
