[bestbits] Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I think that this of course makes sense as a criteria, but i caution us 
against allowing a single view, a theoretically specific view, to 
stand-in for the diversity that is the  Civil  Society viewpoint.  Many 
time I think the reference to 'under-represented' view is synonymous 
with 'the view I and a few friends have that no one else agrees with'.

I.e. when picking representatives, we need to pick people who are also 
not so extreme in the singularity of their view that they cancel out the 
views of others who also minority viewpoints.  Even people with minority 
views need to take a big-tent view if they are to represent the 
diversity of CS view adequately and need to be the sort of people who 
can be expected to work with their fellow CS representatives, and not at 
cross-purposes.

avri

On 23-Dec-13 07:22, Ginger Paque wrote:
> Thanks all, I agree, and will support the addition of this criterion. gp
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> Ginger (Virginia) Paque
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