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Schools on Internet Governance (SIG)

This is the wiki of the IGF Dynamic Coalition Schools on Internet Governance. The mission of the DC is to bring together the different schools to better understand how best to offers instruction. While each school develops its own model and curriculum, each school, especially new efforts, can learn from the other schools. The purpose of the wiki is for schools to share their materials, and for schools to learn from the work that has been done by other schools.

Any school that wishes to share its materials is welcome to contribute. To do so please request an account and share your plans with the wiki maintainer via contact@igschools.net. The main page for the DC SIG can be found at: https://www.igschools.net/.

List of Schools participating in the DC SIG work

as of 2019 September 2019

Name of School	Year of foundation
African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG)	2013
ArmSIG	2017
Central Africa School of Internet Governance	2019
European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG)	2007
North American School of Internet Governance(NASIG)	2018
SIG Sri Lanka	2017
Winter School in Internet Governance, Digital Policies and Innovation	2019

Operations Manual to Operate a School of Internet Governance

Introduction

The delivery of a successful Internet Governance school (regardless the length) requires a substantial amount of planning and execution to be successful. Most schools have been the inspiration and dedication of a small determined group of individuals inventing the process of operating a school by trial and error. The goal of this document is to provide key ideas to setup and run a successful school. Obviously the granularity of a school is a reflection of the personality type of the founder. No single answer is completely right or wrong but lots of shades of grey

Recruitment of Core Team

Roles and Responsibilities of Core Team

The structure of the volunteer pool is vital in the success of any activity.

Here is an example of NASIG Puerto Rico Organizational chart

Charter of Group ADD

Chair or Project Manager

A critical role of the Chair or Project Manager is provide a 50,000 foot perspective of the entire process, timelines, budget and sponsorship. He or she would work with the various volunteers to make sure none of the aspects of the project from long term planning,event troubleshooting and post reporting and followup. Depending on the number of volunteers or early formation of the school. the chair may need to wear many hats.

Key Skills and Experience

• Attended school of Internet Governance
• Proven project management experience
• Access to arms length bank account

Tasks

• Determine the date and duration of the school
• Determine the city and physical location of the delivery of the course
• Sign all contracts with sponsors, facility, hotels, rental stores, etc
• Assemble a full complimentary team
• Prepare all letters of acceptance for students with their hotel details for VISA purposes

Director of Academic Programme

Scope of Group

This department is responsible for:

• reviewing the previous school year survey responses on the various speakers and topics,
• generate a list of potential topics
• review the other schools topics in order to come up with a draft schedule
• Interface with the Director of Fundraising and Sponsorship on speaker slots
• Open call for moderators and speakers for the event
• Listen to feedback from proposed Moderators and speakers

Director of Sponsorship

Mandate of Group

A critical part of any school is raising money to help ofset the cost of running a school

Various models exist:

• Fee based
• Fee based and subsidies
• Full fellowships

Sponsorship/Grant Requests are an important task that requires a significant amount of time to raise the necessary funds to operate successfully. Many of the sponsors have rigid requirements and payment processes to obtain the funds.

Sponsors demand by sponsorship contract the following:

• Signed sponsorship agreement
• Showcase on website, printed materials and signage of the company sponsorship
• Speaking opportunities at the event
• Clarify what restrictions you will have on the use of the funds

Suggestions

• Creation of a Sponsorship Q & A document( See Q and A document)
• Creation of a well written letter of introduction with timelines and sponsorship request
• Send invoice and details for bank wire transfer

Lead for Technical Services

This person needs to work hard with the facility technology team to assure that:

• AV equipment is adequate and full functional
• Good Wifi connectivity for guests and staff
• Load and prepare all slideshow presentations
• Collect any remote presentations ie. video etc
• Setup any special equipment

See Job Description

Director of Logistics

Scope

• Organize necessary equipment, WIFI, AV, Livestream, equipment rentals
• Booking Hotels for staff, fellows and speakers
• Booking Airfares
• Design for website, logos etc
• Design and order banners, signage, fellow shirts/hats/bags

Fellowship

The fellowship application should be made available six months in advance of the

Month One- Creation of Fellowship Application Form (See Google Form)

Month One- Establish fellowship selection committee

Month One to Three- Promote and Open Fellowship

Month Four- Selection of fellows

Month Four- Send letter of acceptance and detail the type of fellowship , partial, full or other( Letter should be adequate for Visa ( See same Letter)

Communications

Scope

The promotion and advertising of the event has various phases with different target audiences

Timelines

Month One- Obtain domain name of IG School and Facebook Group, Twitter Hashtag

Month 1-12: Website and Facebook

- Updates on websites and Facebook

- Create a information kit/guide for the fellows and speakers which include maps, contact names and numbers, programme etc See sample

Month 4- Press Release announcing the fellowship selection

Month 10- Create an Orientation Guide

Evaluation and Reporting

The feedback by everyone involved with the delivery of a IG School is critical to learn from what worked and what didn't work

See Evaluation