[bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval - URGENT

[parminder]

On Tuesday 03 December 2013 03:46 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 03/12/13 01:11, parminder wrote:
>> My preferred option is to make BB into a membership based 
>> organisation. My impression at its inaugural meeting was that it was 
>> supposed to emerge as a membership based body, where serious and 
>> committed civil society organisations/ individuals will like to work 
>> together in peace and with focus, away from the general din of civil 
>> society conversations.
>
> Thanks, that's really much more helpful. 

This just repeats and expands what I said at Bali, which point - about a 
membership based network - was also captured by another member making 
closing remarks (Al Alegre) .

> We now know that your main objection is that you want a more tightly 
> institutionalised Best Bits, closer to an organisation

No more than Internet Governance Caucus can be considered as an 
organisation... Dont think most consider it as an organisation. 
Organisation is not the right word... Network is better - or maybe a 
network with some organisational features enable some clear and specific 
functions..

> than to a loose platform or network, 

My email also gave the second option - loose platform - but then with 
the limitations about what it can do... Structure and outputting is a 
kind of  a package...

> and you have now described what you are looking for specifically and 
> clearly.

Well, I thought I had said enough earlier as well.... But good now it 
has gone through...
>
> However it does seem fair to say that most others don't want those 
> changes, at the current point in time.  This came across both at the 
> meeting in Bali, and in responses here.

I am not so sure.... I think more people will prefer a network with 
clear membership, and membership driven decision making, facilitated by 
co-cos or a steering committee... But then if the decision to make it 
into a platform  is to be taken, it should also clearly specify its 
functions, limits and structures...

thanks

parminder
>
> Can we therefore park this disagreement and revisit it once the 
> interim steering committee have issued their 2013 report, that 
> Anriette called for in her proposal?  This will at least give people 
> (you and others) more background to inform their decision about 
> whether Best Bits should change into an organisation with specific 
> membership criteria, charter, etc.
>
> Meanwhile we can also try to limit straying into acting as a de facto 
> organisation, though I still contend that there may be some actions 
> that we can take, beyond sign-on statements, that the community should 
> be able to endorse us doing by overall consensus, without requiring 
> all the additional organisational baggage.
>
> Let's take the heat down a notch - your latest reply has helped - and 
> we will try to be sensitive to the differences between organisation 
> that you have described.
>
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