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

[parminder]

Hi Joy

I refer to interactions during the last plenary session on processes. It 
wasnt in the small groups sessions. The exchange about the need for 
clearer/ formal processes versus we should not become too formal and 
inflexible continued over quite some time, involving many interventions.

As for the details you ask for - it begun I think with a demand that 
those closely associated with BB processes be upfront about their 
organisational details, funding support etc so that members knew clearly 
who is who and so on. To this was added request to be more clear about 
goals of the coalition (included if needed through a charter) and the 
need to actively reach out to bring in those who werent here... It was 
proposed that BB works as a membership driven organisation, with members 
driven processes/ decisions. There was demands for greaer clarity about 
how decisions are made and who made them....

Regards, parminder



On Monday 04 November 2013 02:53 AM, joy wrote:
> Hi Parminder - i need a clarification please... In relation to the 
> Best Bits quality mark idea, you wrote:
> {snip}
> "when some process issues were raised there were many people labelling 
> them as unneeded inflexibility and formalism"
> I do not recall this from the large group discussion - but perhaps it 
> was in the small groups or was it missed in the meeting notes? To 
> assist, can you please be more specific about the actual concerns that 
> were raised and those labelling them in this way? It is difficult to 
> assess your comments in detail without the particulars .
> thanks
> Joy
>
> On 3/11/2013 7:52 p.m., parminder wrote:
>>
>> 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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