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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/10/13 20:18, Adam Peake wrote:
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<pre wrap="">At least one such group is indeed in the process of forming itself, or
at least trying to do so. I'm attaching the best information that I have
available, which is the meeting report from a meeting on Friday that
has been circulated on the BestBits list.
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Thanks. Looks more like the Brazil coordinators, good. But if bestbits is taking on such tasks it really does need to be more transparent -- ok to use small groups to draft documents, but not to design process and representation. Perhaps Jeremy could explain how bestbits works and what its doing.
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The best way to stay abreast of what we're doing is to join our
list, which you have, so I won't repeat everything that you've
already read. But in a nutshell, following the I* meeting at
which... well I'm not going to repeat the "p**** g***" terminology
because some people didn't like hearing that, but anyway - we
organised an ad hoc civil society meeting at which Fadi Chehadé
attended to attempt to assuage our concerns.<br>
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The main decision that we made before he arrived was to put forward
the names of the four Brazilian civil society delegates, who had
already volunteered as liaisons with the Brazilian government over
the summit, to also be liaisons with the I* coalition/platform. And
Joana has since posted an update of what has been going in on the
closed list of that coalition/platform (note: that's not a Best Bits
closed list, it's an I* closed list).<br>
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Going forward, everyone (including the existing delegates) are
agreed that we need to nominate more people, and to find a way of
doing that across broader civil society, not just within Best Bits.
Indeed Norbert raised the same as an agenda item some time ago, and
there was discussion of it at the IGC workshop in Bali (that I
missed unfortunately). So I don't think there is any intention for
closed groups to be deciding on process and representation.<br>
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