Hi, If you know of any process that you think work or don't work, here is a chance to write them up and submit them. avri -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Bp_multistakeholder] Open call for Best Practice Forum (BPF) - Multistakeholder Practice Contributions Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:33:35 +0200 From: IGF <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] The report <http://unctad.org/meetings/en/SessionalDocuments/a67d65_en.pdf>produced by the UN CSTD working group on improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) called for the development of more tangible outputs to âenhance the impact of the IGF on global Internet governance and policyâ. In order to enrich the potential for IGF outputs, the IGF is working on a set of intersessional activities including best practice forums (BPFs). The outputs from these activities are intended to become dynamic resources, to be nurtured and serve in turn as inputs into other forums such as WSIS+10. *The Best Practice Forum (BPF) onDeveloping meaningful multistakeholder participation mechanisms <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/170-igf-2014/best-practice-forums-2014/1891-developing-meaningful-multistakeholder-participation-mechnisms>, BPF-Multistakeholder for short, invites community members to submit brief descriptions (suggest a max 500 words each) of multistakeholder and other participatory democratic practices they have used that have either:* * * *- worked very well* *- worked rather badly* Note that your experiences on challenges and failures are equally or sometimes more valuable than your experience on success as we often learn from failures. In your contributions, please respond to issues and questions discussed in the paper <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ikSDr57V56jWdmWiH3Gl304blYlSzMls245S4BGQH3Y/edit?usp=sharing>which deals with normative issues, that is descriptions of how the multistakeholder model should work. This paper has been produced from the output of last years BPF and comments made over the first months of 2015. The contributions on practices should be about things that did or did not work. Each contribution should restrict itself to describing just one practice. Should you wish to describe more than one practice, please submit multiple contributions. The contributions should notbe normative or describe how multistakeholder organizations/processes/mechanisms should work. Any normative comments should be added to the main BPF synthesis paper <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ikSDr57V56jWdmWiH3Gl304blYlSzMls245S4BGQH3Y/edit>itself as either comments or suggested text. That document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ikSDr57V56jWdmWiH3Gl304blYlSzMls245S4BGQH3Y/edit?usp=sharing>remains open for comments and suggested text. The contributions should be submitted to the BPF Multistakeholder mailing list <mailto:[log in to unmask]>and also to Brian Gutterman ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by 13 July 2015. The contributions will then be synthesized with the current paper, to produce the draft input for this yearâs IGF BPF meeting that will take place during the annual IGF in Joao Pessoa from 10-13 November. Refining this draft would then become the primary work item for this BPF in the run up to the IGF. The outputs produced by the BPF at IGF are intended to serve as inputs to other Internet governance fora and processes and may be maintained as living documents for further improvement. The output may also be used as part of capacity building information available through the IGF website and other distribution mechanisms such as the Friends of the IGF research sites. It is hoped that this output will become useful input in the further development of multistakeholder practice. The open IGF working group facilitating the work of the BPF-Multistakeholder remains open to new members and will continue to remain open to all interested stakeholders. All information can be found at: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/170-igf-2014/best-practice-forums-2014/1891-developing-meaningful-multistakeholder-participation-mechnisms Best regards, IGF Secretariat --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus