<div>Dear Veni, does the remark below ("Whenever there's something that resembles, even very vague, power,<br>this ruins good cooperative working") also apply in your mind to some internet governance institutions boards we sometimes discuss ? No pun intended.
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<div>More seriously, the multi-stakeholder approach in my mind means that small group that are often created (steering groups, advisory groups, facilitation teams, etc...) feels it is at the service of the broader commmunity to support its efforts in reaching consensus, rather than acting as a body of representatives taking decisions on behalf of this larger community, like traditional bureaus or councils do in the traditional representative democracy approach.
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<div>Maybe we could keep that in mind while discussing theses issues. Smaller groups should not exercise power but facilitation.</div>
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<div>Best</div>
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<div>Bertrand<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Veni Markovski</b> <<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com">veni@veni.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Having been on the previous WSIS CS bureau, and having seen all the<br>political gaming behind it, I strongly agree with Robert.
<br>Whenever there's something that resembles, even very vague, power,<br>this ruins good cooperative working.<br><br>veni<br><br>At 08:26 5/22/2007 -0400, you wrote:<br>>Having been on the previous WSIS CS bureau as focal point for North
<br>>America and Europe, let me concur with Bill Drake and others who<br>>state quite clearly and quite articulately that a "Bureau for CS" is<br>>an inappropriate construct for the IGF process.<br>>
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