[bestbits] QUESTION TO ADAM - NETmundial documents online for comment

[Adam Peake]

Hi Carolina,

On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:59 AM, Carolina Rossini wrote:

> Adam,
> 
> Will the organizers consolidate the comments into a new document?!


No, my understanding is the secretariat will produce a compilation of comments received.  This is the hope, and I hope there'll be time.
 

> If no....


Comments close on April 21, the meeting starts on April 23.  1 day might be enough to produce a compilation.  Given the time available, attempting to produced a new consolidated document might be unwise.


> why should we be commenting on it? (this second is just a rhetoric question to understand the process) 
> 
> 

I don't really understand your question.  But perhaps following helps -- this just my personal opinion, not EMC etc.

Anyone can make comments online.  All comments are visible to everyone and allow all participants (including remote) to see where changes are being suggested, what direction has some agreement and what less so.  We can comment on other's comments, agree/disagree etc.  We can rate each paragraph (not sure if that will be a useful tool?)  All this should guide discussion during the meeting.

I hope by the morning of April 23, Sao Paulo, all of us will have made the comments we want to make (and please do it sooner not later: the intention is to share and inform each other), will have seen what our colleagues have to say, and have a general sense of what parts of the documents are supported, less supported, which are polarizing, perhaps even where we can see need/opportunity for further work (after NETmundial, not extending NETmundial).

Carolina, does this sound reasonable? 

BTW, if you print the page to PDF all comments made at the time will be included on the resulting file.
 
Adam


> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> Please see <http://document.netmundial.br/> Use the Navigate button.
> 
> Comments will close April 21th, 12:00 UTC.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> WELCOME TO NETMUNDIAL PUBLIC COMMENTS PAGE
> 
> After an open call for content contribution, NETmundial – the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance – received 188 documents from 46 different countries. These documents were sent by representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector, Academy, Governments and Technical Community.
> 
> Based on these broad set of inputs, NETmundial’s Executive Multistakeholder Committee (EMC) prepared a Draft Outcome Document and submitted it for consultation with NETmundial’s High-level Multistakeholder Committee (HLMC) on April 3rd, 2014. After incorporating the inputs from the HLMC, under the guidance of NETmundial’s Chair and Co-Chairs, a final version of the document is released here for public comments. The public consultation will be open for comments on NETmundial’s Executive Committee Output Document from April 14th until April 21th, 12:00 UTC.
> 
> For this public consultation a commenting tool is available online at http://document.netmundial.br/ with the purpose of receiving public comments on specific points of the document. It is not necessary to create an account in order to post your comment to the document. You’ll be able to immediately start reading the document and whenever you have something to say, you’ll just have to provide a full name and contact email address alongside your comment.
> 
> By clicking on any paragraph of the document, you’ll be able to see all the comments other people have already made pertaining to that portion of the text; as referred above, you are also granted the possibility  to register your own observations. Maybe your concern was already addressed in someone else’s comment, so please be sure to take a look at the previous comments before making yours.
> 
> This public consultation closes the loop that started by collecting public content contributions. Such contributions were compiled and merged into the Outcome Document by the NETmundial EMC and HLMC committees in the spirit of trying to represent the overall context of the current Internet Governance debate. It is very important to receive further public input in this final stage, so that the outcome is true to the issues and concerns presented by all stakeholders.
> 
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