The schedule for the Rio meeting has just been finalised (though it is not yet on the IGF Web site). Like I did last year, I'm presenting my pick of sessions here:

Monday, 12 November

13:30 - 15:00 Freedom of Expression as a Security Issue

This workshop is a very topical one for Australia at the moment, with the introduction of a bill that would give the Federal Police Commissioner the power to censor Web sites he believes to be crime or terrorism related.

15:30 - 17:00 Critical Internet Resources

Well, I could hardly miss this main session, could I, given the trouble it took to convince the Secretariat to heed the clear language of paragraph 72(j) of the Tunis Agenda?

17:30 - 19:00 Public participation in Internet Governance: Emerging Issues, good practices and proposed solutions

This is the first Best Practice Forum, which attempts to relate the Aarhus Convention of environmental law to the Internet governance regime.

Tuesday, 13 November

10:30 - 12:00 Fundamental Freedoms in the Internet Governance Forum: Protecting and Promoting Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Assembly and Association, and Privacy in the Information Society

I will either hang around the Meeting Point/Village Square or have a sleep in on the second day, before catching the Reporting Back session and this star-studded workshop, supported by the Net Dialogue Project and Jimmy Wales amongst others.

12:30 - 13:30 Upholding human rights on the global Internet - Toward a unified industry solution

Continuing on the human rights theme, I would like to ask the organisers of this workshop why the IGF was bypassed in the development of the code of practice they are brokering with industry, and whether this workshop marks a change in that approach.

2:30 - 4:00 Open Standards

I will likely catch only the start of the meeting of the Open Standards Dynamic Coalition before heading back to the main room to catch the next Reporting Back session.

4:30 - 6:00 ICANN

The elephant in the room will be holding its own Open Forum - so far we know nothing more than that.

Wednesday, 14 November

8:30 - 10:00 StopSpam Alliance

I may catch some of this Dynamic Coalition meeting if not recovering from a reception held the previous evening.

11:00 - 12:30 Openness

After the Reporting Back wraps up, I will stay for the Openness main session, which I found one of the most lively and interesting of the plenary sessions in Athens.

12:30 - 2:00 Multi-stakeholder Policy Development : lessons from actors engaged in existing institutional processes

I greatly admire the intellect and experience of Bertrand de La Chapelle, moderator of this session, and will look forward to hearing perspectives on this topic from a variety of institutions including the IETF, OECD and ICANN.

2:30 - 4:00 Online Collaboration

Oh, that's me. I'd better organise something, then.

4:00 - 6:00 Security

The other main session of most personal interest to me, and I thought I'd better at least catch half of them (that's assuming I'm not needed to fulfil blog-watching duties during the other plenary sessions).

6:30 - 8:00 Public Policy on the Internet

An important IGC-sponsored workshop on whether policy authority on the Internet truly is the sovereign right of States. Deserved to be a plenary session in its own right (as the IGC proposed), but I wouldn't miss this for anything.

Thursday, 15 November

8:30 - 10:00 Fulfilling the Mandate of the IGF

Another vital IGC-sponsored workshop, which will question how the IGF plans to develop the capacity to fulfill all paragraphs of its mandate, not merely those requiring it to facilitate discussion.

11:00 - 1:00 Taking Stock and The Way Forward

By the sounds of it, Brazil will be continuing this theme in the next plenary session, which promises to be a wake-up call for the "Forum doves" as the second IGF meeting winds down towards Emerging Issues and the closing ceremony.