[governance] Re: [bestbits] [bit of news] on Brazilian announcement for the Summit

[Adam Peake]

Let's just wait and see what Brazil govt has to say about the summit/conference, hopefully today or soon.  Then decide how to engage.

Adam



On Nov 14, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> On 14/11/13 12:00, parminder wrote:
>>> Once again, as suggested by Matthew, I do believe a formal letter nominating and explaining our role as liasons, and not representatives, for International Civil Society for information regarding the Summit will be good to legitimate             and help our job here. 
>> 
>> 
>> A formal letter naming our liaisons and making it clear that global civil society would want to use this mechanism to       coordinate its role in the proposed Brazil meeting and not go through 1net or any other tehcnical community led interface is of the highest priority at this stage. Dont want to get into I-told-you-so mode, but I have been insisting that we did that first and in clear terms since our earliest meetings in Bali. If we have got such a communication through in clear terms, maybe our four reps would have been there at the above meeting. At least if they werent invited we could have protested...
> 
> Draft letter is here: http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/brazil-reps
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