[bestbits] Sign-On Statement regarding the 2014 Internet Governance Summit in Brazil

[parminder]

On Saturday 26 October 2013 05:23 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 26 Oct 2013, at 11:53 am, parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>>> Yes it is the same, with those suggestions incorporated, and reviewed.
>>
>> Thanks for the information, Jeremy...
>>
>> Who reviewed and incorporated the suggestions, and 'finalised' the 
>> statement.
>
> The steering committee (except Marianne who presented apologies) at a 
> meeting the previous night.

In fact, the lack of clarity of the process is so high that I no longer 
know who are members of steering committee... Dont  those who consider 
themselves members of the BB group kind of need to know such basic stuff...

One process issue that was raised repeatedly at the BB f2f meeting was 
about clarity about steering committee members and where they 'came 
from'..... there was a demand that their association with groups/ 
organisation etc be very clear, along with nature of funding support 
etc, and I would add - if not explicit on the respective websites - a 
basic statement of organisational objectives, vision/ mission etc, and 
list of activities and the such...

parminder


>
>> My only suggestion was not incorporated - neither responded to... 
>
> That, though, was just an oversight - I really apologise for that. I 
> actually thought that we had incorporated the only two outstanding 
> points and evidently overlooked this one, or thought it had already 
> been incorporated.
>
> Somewhat explaining this lapse, we were very pressed for time as we 
> wanted it to go public on the last day of the IGF, and by that time 
> the BB server was already down, though I didn't yet realise how badly. 
> I spent a few hours that night trying to bring it back up.
>
>> It was
>> regarding the main operative part of the sentence - the second sentence -
>> which seek multistakeholder model of holding the conference. I had
>> proposed that we instead ask specifically for civil society to be an 
>> equal
>> partner in all processes of holding the conference..... 
>
> However I do think this is covered pretty well anyway, if you take the 
> statement as a whole.
>
> -- 
> Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com
> Internet and Open Source lawyer, consumer advocate, geek
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