<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Me, I would argue that there isn't any single entity called civil society. Or government. Or industry. At least not the sort of entity that can ever be counted to have broad consensus on anything in particular, </div><div><br></div><div>Groupings of countries like the G8, industry chambers of commerce, coalitions of a set of cs groups.. fine. That's different. Certainly you can assert membership in such groups and assert shared policy goals for them.</div><div><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 27-Dec-2012, at 22:36, Milton L Mueller <<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">What, are you some kind of a neoliberal, wanting to deregulate civil society? Horrors! ;-)
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<p class="MsoNormal">is there a centralized licensing department of cs actors or something?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">you can speak in your individual capacity<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">or as part of a nonprofit you represent<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">as for advising or consulting .. well you need a client to consult for, who has to hire you<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">in which case you identify yourself as such<o:p></o:p></p>
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