<p dir="ltr">Deidre and all, </p>
<p dir="ltr">I fully support and share your concern, suggestions and questions.<br>
Civil society as we know, constitute and perform, should learn, mature and move.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Accusing may not help. At all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Izumi<br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">2015/05/23 22:11 "Deirdre Williams" <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Norbert,<div>Is it better expressed if I say that Bestbits and JNC each appears to use its own space as a space to agree and the IGC space as a space to disagree? And that the disagreements are often full of rancour?</div><div><br></div><div>Democracy is a word, like multistakeholderism, which can be used for good purposes and for bad purposes. I say that, with an example, as a statement of fact not as a judgement on anyone or any institution.</div><div><br></div><div>I think civil society has been divided and stands in great danger of being absolutely ruled.</div><div>Let's stop that happening.</div><div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 May 2015 at 08:40, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Sat, 23 May 2015 07:48:46 -0400<br>
Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> It is distressing that both Bestbits and JNC, having each decided<br>
> that they preferred to come together with likeminded persons, should<br>
> both then decide to use IGC as a battleground.<br>
<br>
</span>Being a co-founder and co-convenor of the Just Net Coalition (JNC),<br>
the last part of this statement and its implied mischaracterization of<br>
the nature of my postings is in my eyes highly offensive and quite<br>
inappropriate.<br>
<br>
I hereby formally request an apology.<br>
<span><br>
> Earlier this week I was present at a meeting locally at which a<br>
> venerable and respected NGO (turned 60 last year) was probably killed<br>
> by people shouting for democracy.<br>
</span>[..]<br>
<span>> So let’s regroup so that we can present a common front and so that<br>
> “they’ll see how beautiful (and powerful) [we] are, and be<br>
> ashamed” (with apologies to Langston Hughes)<br>
<br>
</span>Does this mean that those who care about democracy, and who consider it<br>
essential that it must be accepted and respected when people talk about<br>
the need for governance to be truly democratic, will have to go<br>
elsewhere?<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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