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Although there may be merit in not devoting too much of our
energies on something i.e. merely a logistics committee but I
can't help wondering and agreeing with Parminder, considering the
enthusiasm some of the corporations are displaying in getting
their own representatives, the astroturfers on the 1Net.<br>
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On 02/10/2014 02:16 AM, parminder wrote:<br>
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<div>On 10 Feb 2014, at 6:16 am, michael gurstein <<a
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sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Precisely what
are people afraid of in insisting that 1Net, a
formation that was interposed and interposed itself
between “CS” and the Brazil meeting, make
transparent its decision making processes including
in the crucial areas of financial supports and
expenditures and decisions as to inclusions and
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I
am not afraid at all of 1Net increasing its transparency and
accountability mechanisms - on the contrary, that would
clearly be a positive outcome. But I am quite afraid that we
will spend a much larger amount of time debating the internal
functioning of 1net, which at this point is largely a
mechanism for dealing with administrative issues to do with a
single event, rather than focussing on the substantive policy
outcomes of that, and future, events. <br>
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This is untrue on both counts. The fact being as below;<br>
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(1) The primary purpose of the 1Net is to strongly influence (if
not actually write) the outcomes of the Brazil meeting (something
I have been insisting since the very beginning)<br>
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(2) The serious 1Net-ers want it to be a standing multistakeholder
mechanism. So many have explicitly said so on so many lists.<br>
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I think one-sided naivete is not the best response for civil
society to take to all this, which unfortunately seems to be the
dominant response. (I say one-sided naivete becuase there is
hardly any naivete when for instance a UN kind of process is
involved.)<br>
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People in post colonial societies cannot but use colonial
analogies to understand geo- political situations. The British set
up an establishment in India 'merely' to facilitate its trade to
'the east'. They ended up ruling the country for more than a
century. Apologies if the analogy is seen as 'too strong' - it is
merely to underline the need for political foresight...<br>
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parminder <br>
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