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

[Lee W McKnight]

+1  

(a few line letter noting cs liaisons already known is perhaps not quite the place for  a metaphysical debate on the nature of cs, tech community, life on earth, etc.; noting objection raised)
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From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net [bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] on behalf of Norbert Bollow [nb at bollow.ch]
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Subject: Re: [governance] Re: [bestbits] [bit of news] on Brazilian announcement for the Summit

Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> 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

Looks good to me.

Greetings,
Norbert