[governance] Just Net Coalition

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

To be honest, an organization that doesn't even have its membership sorted out proceeding to issue statements without even listing the signatories doesn't define transparency as much as it should.  What was that biblical quote about motes in one eye and beams in another ..

--srs (iPad)

> On 29-Jun-2014, at 12:56, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 28 Jun 2014, at 12:45 am, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Jeremy
>>> 
>>> Direct question: Can you please point out the specific 'standard of
>>> transparency  and accountability' that you seem to imply Just Net
>>> Coalition hasnt upheld, and its members 'hold everyone else to'. I
>>> ask because JNC takes such questions very seriously.
>> 
>> No I won't, because I'd much rather we would stop pointing fingers at
>> each other. These kind of sanctimonious exchanges, mostly one
>> directional, have been extremely destructive.
> 
> So you don't hesitate to claim, in public no less, that we're not
> living up to some unspecified “standard of transparency and
> accountability”, but when asked specifically what standard of
> transparency and accountability we're allegedly failing to live up to,
> ... ???
> 
> Unless civil society as a whole can be convinced to take matters of
> transparency and accountability at least a little serious, civil society
> as a whole does not deserve to be taken serious at all -- until such a
> time that this situation improves!
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> co-convenor, Just Net Coaltion
> 
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