<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>As hard as it is for Milton to say <EM>stakeholders</EM> it is for me to say that Milton is right on the money here. I am very pleased to see him throw his substantial intellectual weight behind this focused factor.</DIV>
<DIV>This concept of going milktoast PC is a concern. But that is what flies in the ointment like me are for doing.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 3/6/10, Milton L Mueller <I><mueller@syr.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu><BR>Subject: RE: [governance] Strangeness in the IGF programme<BR>To: "governance@lists.cpsr.org" <governance@lists.cpsr.org>, "Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@wzb.eu>, "Parminder" <parminder@itforchange.net><BR>Cc: "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca@cafonso.ca><BR>Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 12:45 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Kudos to our MAG members for coalescing around the "key messages" theme. I understand that CS and governments have been working together on this. <BR>Jeanette's caution about making the entire IGF into a strenuous competition to get your pet "key message" adopted is a real concern. But in response to her observation...<BR><BR>>whiile outputs in the form of messages may increase the relevance of<BR>>events at the IGF, we should be sensitive to the risk that they might<BR>>alter the dynamics of the discussions.<BR><BR>...I was thinking back on my experience with various IGF main sessions, and there have been very few discussions there that had _any_ dynamics, much less positive ones. <BR><BR>Too many main sessions discussions, and even many workshop discussions, are flaccid, static presentations, with little focused engagement among the s-s-s-stakeholders (there, I said it. yak), they move in an unfocused manner from one issue
to another. I suspect that the possibility (or threat?) of something morphing into a "key message" would concentrate people's minds. <BR><BR>My fear is that key messages will end up being fluffy teddy-bear messages that no one can disagree with. But the effort to strive for meaningful ones could be interesting. <BR>--MM<BR><BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A href="http://us.mc807.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR> <A href="http://us.mc807.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR><BR>For all list information and functions,
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