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[Carolina Rossini]

Hi all,

I am all for transparency, too. I even document my day to day work in
wikis. However, sometimes we just need a private forum to discuss strategy.
That is all. People can or cannot use it. But at least, they have the
alternative. And it is just an alternative.

C

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> On 14/06/2013, at 8:09 PM, Marianne Franklin <m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> It is a fundamental principle of equality surely online too? Openness and
> transparency are what we are fighting for, no?
>
>
> I think so, but I'm trying to be a neutral facilitator here, and this an
> issue on which there are equally strong opinions on both sides, manifested
> by repeated (off-list, uncuriously) requests for a closed list.  I'm for
> radical transparency personally, but it seems to be quite an alien concept
> to some segments of civil society (I've found this in working on trade
> issues, for example), and so offering the choice seems to be the best
> middle path to take.  The default though, I certainly agree, should be to
> use the open lists.
>
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