<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Michael and all,<br><br>Regarding the summary and forum/website, I am happy to find out more about how they were financed. I can share with you already that both were shared with the 1net SC before they were shared with the larger list. To my knowledge there was little involvement of the SC in their conceptualisation until after their launch. The SC has since been making suggestions on how to improve both, and this is being worked on now (for example, there have been requests by many to try and provide functionality that would allow a user to interact with the forum completely through email, in which case for that particular user the experience would actually not be very different than it is now). I foresee that these will continue to evolve over the weeks to come. <br>
<br></div>Hope this is helpful, and I'll get back to you as soon as I find out more.<br><br>Best,<br>Anja<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 February 2014 13:51, michael gurstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A simple detailed reply (1-2 hours max) to my initial request would be more than sufficient to stem any further debate on the internal functioning of 1Net (certainly by myself). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">My question is why those who have wasted far more of their (and my time) in arguing that such is unnecessary are not directing their efforts toward 1Net to have them stop this discussion immediately through a useful response.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">M<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> David Cake [mailto:<a href="mailto:dave@difference.com.au" target="_blank">dave@difference.com.au</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 10, 2014 6:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> michael gurstein<br><b>Cc:</b> Ian Peter; <a href="mailto:genekimmelman@gmail.com" target="_blank">genekimmelman@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a></span></p>
<div class=""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] RE: [bestbits] Call for Transparency Process for 1Net<u></u><u></u></div><p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 10 Feb 2014, at 6:16 am, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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 exclusions. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </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. <u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Regards<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>David<u></u><u></u></p>
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