<div dir="ltr">Hi Kerry,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Kerry Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kerry@kdbsystems.com" target="_blank">kerry@kdbsystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:16px">From Byron Holland's latest blog.</span><br style="font-family:monospace;font-size:16px">
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<span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:16px">"In the political world, the term ‘governance’ is loaded, and carries with it ideas of power and authority, certainly not the same meaning that we in the Internet world have given it. Are the terms coordination
and administration more helpful moving forward?"</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have always felt so.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:16px">The above statement really struck a chord with me. It gets at the heart of the current tension between governments, commercial, and civil society interests. If we changed to speaking about coordination
and administration rather than governance it may may facilitate more productive conversations from all the concerned parties.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The I*'s used those words (the 4 C's) Collaboration, Communication, Cooperation and Coordination around admin of tech resources during WSIS. It didn't seem to catch on as a meme outside of the folk who were actually doing the 4 C's.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Doesn't mean we can't try again.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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