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On 24/05/2015 11:57 pm, Ian Peter wrote:<br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR:
#000000">Secondly, I wonder how it would work in CS which has
so many people who are basically acting as individuals rather
than representatives of organisations. Many if not most of us
also have non CS affiliations (eg membership of ISOC, business
or governmental employees if we are cs volunteers, academic
postings etc) so the “pure” CS rep is probably a bit hard to
find. I am not sure what we would gain by having a register of
all our multiple affiliations which would need regular
updating to be of any use. I think we need to ensure our
major coalitions (BB, JNC, IGC, APC, NCSG) act transparently,
and by and large I think they do. But I am not sure of the
value of extending this to what is probably tens of thousands
of members or organisations affiliated with these larger
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Agreed. I also feel that it's a misplaced priority. If any of us
actually had enough influence to being making significant impacts on
policy, then the expenditure of time and resources on self-policing
ourselves in this fashion might make some sense. But since we have
enough difficulty as it is just with being heard, let alone having
an impact, it just seems a real misallocation of scarce resources
for us to be placing ourselves under the microscope like this,
especially since nobody but ourselves is raising the question.
Instead of a register, there are already voluntary transparency
pledges that one can adopt (eg the INGO Accountability Charter,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ingoaccountabilitycharter.org/">http://www.ingoaccountabilitycharter.org/</a>). Anything heavier than
that is, I feel, difficult to justify.<br>
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Also, take note of this article (from the left, by the way),
criticising efforts to enforce formal accountability standards on
civil society organisations:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hapinternational.org/pool/files/ngos,-civil-soc.pdf">http://hapinternational.org/pool/files/ngos,-civil-soc.pdf</a><br>
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