[bestbits] Re: [governance] netmundial 0.1
Seun Ojedeji
seun.ojedeji at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 15:21:51 EDT 2014
+1 from a remote participant like me ;)
In any case since it was an observer I wonder how much difference it would
have made, although it would have been good to witness the mechanisms used
during the drafting.
All that is history now I guess and getting to improve on the strong
foundation is the way forward.
Regards
sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 27 Apr 2014 21:12, "Adam Peake" <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> The last meeting of the HLMC was open to observers. But it was a shame we
> didn't think to put cameras and mics in the room for the drafting sessions
> so they could have been webcast. Just that it wasn't thought of at the
> time.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately that process was not open, and perhaps for good reason.
> They also realize they made an error in the last minute rush, and put the
> wrong older text in for one clause. Business is actually arguing to put a
> better one for us back in. Will let the list know if it happens.
> > Despite the hairiness of this process, I think folks should remember
> that there was a remarkable production of good will achieved by all the
> open drafting sessions….this is really an unusual way to do business. Rome
> wasn’t built in a day…
> > Stephanie Perrin
> > Cheers stephanie
> > On Apr 25, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Izumi AIZU <aizu at anr.org> wrote:
> >
> >> First, Thanks to ALL who made this impossible possible.
> >>
> >> I was wondering during the last hours of confusion about the
> last-minute change, as well as sort of HLMC overriding the preceding
> process.
> >>
> >> My question 1 was, was this finalizing the Outcome document open to
> observers?
> >> (I still don't know and appreciate if someone teach me).
> >>
> >> I was wondering, and also now like to propose in the future similar
> event, to use the
> >> online tool, I mean online Notepad.
> >>
> >> In addition to the real-time scribes, and using projectors to put the
> text on the screen,
> >> it will be very effective to use the online notepad (such as Google Doc
> or something similar), over the Internet, as we draft. Everyone online can
> see the process of changing
> >> the words or sentences, they can keep track of all the changes.
> >>
> >> It will be useful for all the remote participants, or those in
> different rooms of the same
> >> venue while small number of drafting committee people do the work, that
> make it transparent.
> >>
> >> Just a suggestion.
> >>
> >> izumi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2014-04-26 2:30 GMT+09:00 Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>:
> >> and I should have added – thanks too to the BestBits people for a
> really constructive pre conference get together. Without that we could not
> have worked together so well at the main event.
> >>
> >> From: Ian Peter
> >> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:17 PM
> >> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
> >> Subject: [governance] netmundial 0.1
> >>
> >> The conference is now over, and many of us now go into travel and long
> flights. But before I do, I want to say that during this conference, and
> the meeting beforehand, civil society people really worked incredibly well
> together – far more so than other constituencies. It was great to work with
> a group of such talented and knowledgeable people. There was a high volume
> of exchange and consultation between people and speakers on our behalf,
> with a willingness to take on other perspectives from the group, to stand
> down to allow a more relevant speaker to address a subject etc. great team
> work.
> >>
> >> As regards the results – this was version 0.1 of this very interesting
> – and i think promising – version of multistakeholder consultation. So like
> all versions 0.1, it was full of bugs and there are a few changes that
> should be made and improvements. I might say a thing or two about that
> after I have cleared my head. So I think the process has some lessons for
> us, and is worth repeating.
> >>
> >> As regards the outputs – as the civil society statement said, there
> were areas of disappointment. I would say personally that I was very angry
> at last minute changes made to some sections after the formal processes of
> drafting and consolidating text had ended and passed through those
> committees to the final approval stage. This was an example of some
> governmental players being more equal than others. As one colleague said,
> more like imperialism than multistakeholderism, from a party who preaches
> the religion. Oh well. In time I might say more about the detail of that.
> >>
> >> But for now – there was much good as well, and it was fantastic to be
> involved in this with such a great group of people. All our Brazilian reps,
> and also our selected reps on various committees, did a fantastic job – ad
> it was privilege to see how well they did. They worked long and hard on our
> behalf and deserve a lot of praise. If I start names I will miss someone,
> but to everyone who represented us, I must say job extremely well done.
> >>
> >> Now to wind down after three days of intense activities. Great work
> everyone, really worthwhile event.
> >>
> >> Ian Peter
> >>
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