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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 24 May 2015 06:29 PM, Carlos
A. Afonso wrote:<br>
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<div>Parm, all this fuzz just to expel Nick??</div>
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Carlos, I am not sure where you read an expelling clause. The
primary purpose of neither the EU transparency register nor my
proposal is of *judging* organisational mission, funding etc, but to
bring these informations upfront and make them public, which by any
canon of democratic public life they should be .<br>
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I am sorry if all this looks fuzz to you, but transparency of public
actors including of civil society actors is regular civil society
stuff for the civil society that I know and interact with.<br>
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Maybe you can relax and try to see this proposal on its merit
without thinking about who is proposing it and what you may be
jumping to consider as its 'real purpose'. Perhaps it may put your
mind to rest to know that I have made such a proposal a few times in
my IGC postings, and also have been in talk with a major south based
civil society IG group for over an year now about it. <br>
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So, may I ask you, putting Nick out of your mind, what do you think
of this proposal as an important civil society person/ org in this
space. Thanks.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div>--c.a.<br>
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On 24/05/2015, at 09:31, parminder <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<font face="Verdana">Ian, and reps of civil society networks
on the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) ,<br>
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I propose that CSCG sets up a civil society transparency
project, somewhat on the lines of the EU Transparency
Register, pl see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do">http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do</a>
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It should in fact go beyond the EU initiative which is a
general one for all lobbying groups, whereas we here are
concerned with civil society which should set the highest
example of transparency and accountability. The 'register'
can have self filled information on objectives of an
organisation, principles followed by it, if any, its
funding, partners, and so on.... <br>
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This is at present just my proposal, but I hope one or more
civil society networks in the IG space can own it and push
it... CSCG would be well placed to run this project as a
neutral space so that there is no accusation of bias that
any such initiative is being employed for partisan purposes.
In any case, a simple initiative for openness, transparency
and accountability can hardly be partisan.<br>
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The register can have optional higher level features whereby
a group/ org can declare its means of public accountability,
whether and how its internal governance is done, how matters
can be taken by with their oversight bodies, like board etc,
and whether they have any means whereby they respond to
public question on their work, etc.<br>
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For such genuine cases where such transparency can harm an
organisations work, or security, such organisations, and
only such organisations, can be exempted employing a clear
process and set of criteria.<br>
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Remember, both the UN report on improvements to the IGF and
the NetMundial Statement highlight the issue of
transparency. I also recently read in these lists how we
should make bridges with the OpenGov movement which is
almost wholly about this one thing. Time we begin practising
what we preach. <br>
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I look forward to hear responses to this proposal..<br>
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parminder <br>
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