[bestbits] Day 1: Multi-stakeholder Processes and IGF Discussion

[parminder]

On Tuesday 22 October 2013 10:02 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 20/10/2013, at 12:31 PM, joy <joy at apc.org <mailto:joy at apc.org>> wrote:

> <snip>
>
>   * A *fluid working group* (to use one of our new catchphrases) could
>     work online to distill it down into a shorter statement of
>     principles, and get underway on that now with the aim of making at
>     least some further progress by the time of our workshop on
>     Thursday.  Would you be willing to be a focal point for the fluid
>     working group?
>   * For the longer-term, we could try to develop these principles into
>     a standard of our own, that we could apply to various Internet
>     governance institutions.  During a workshop yesterday on metrics
>     of multi-stakeholderism, I first raised this idea as a kind of
>     "quality label" for multi-stakeholder processes.  As many people
>     have noted during this IGF already, everything from the IETF to
>     ICANN to the IGF is called a "multi-stakeholder process", yet they
>     are so very different.  A *Best Bits "quality label" for
>     multi-stakeholder processes* could help to provide a more useful
>     benchmark for these processes than the WSIS process criteria alone.
>

To be able to do any such kind of quality labelling, BB would itself 
first have to follow very high quality processes. However at the f2f 
meeting when some process issues were raised there were many people 
labelling them as unneeded inflexibility and formalism.  So, not sure 
how we would resolve the apparent contradiction here.....

I do think that when people put themselves up for public roles, 
especially in very political processes like the kind we all are engaged 
in, they need to be held to very high levels of openness, transparency, 
accountability and so on, and these things should not be dismissed as 
unneeded formalism. Democratic public life has been carefully imbued 
with a lot of such 'formalism' over the centuries precisely because of 
this reason.

parminder

>
> Perhaps the same fluid working group could take on both objectives in 
> turn.  What do people think?
>
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