[bestbits] Re: [governance] Re: [CoNE-elist 632] Agenda EMC meeting

[Marilia Maciel]

Hi Norbert, thanks for this comment. The information that EMC members
received was that the chair of the meeting, Mr. Virgilio, expected to have
an initial input to the Meeting. His understanding was that it would be a
task for the EMC to produce this initial input based on the contributions
received.

According to my understanding, meeting participants would be free to do
whatever they want with that document. It would be only an initial input.
If it is good, it can be used as the basis for further work. If it is not,
it can be changed. If it is awful (hope not), it can be discarded. My own
opinion is that with approximately 12 hours of work during the two days and
no possibility to divide participants in two tracks due to limitations of
the venue it is important to have at least a starting point. Of course, I
will convey different opinions.

Best
Marília


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Parminder, all I know is that this document will be an initial
> > input to the meeting. That's all. I have no idea of how the
> > discussions in the meeting are going to take place. This was not
> > discussed by the EMC and it is hard to predict, I think.
>
> Hi Marilia
>
> At the Paris WSIS+10 there was a draft document provided by UNESCO as
> initial input into the process that created the output document. This
> initial input got changed to the extent that it was possible, during the
> very limited and really quite insufficient amount of time available, to
> reach consensus in favor of proposed changes.
>
> If that kind of process is used again, then it is I think quite
> plausible to predict that the outcome document would resemble the
> "initial input".
>
> I'd strongly prefer the work of the São Paulo meeting to start not
> with a pre-prepared initial draft document, but with a blank slate. The
> compilation of contributions is still important of course, but as a
> compilation of ideas that the participants of the meeting can draw
> upon for proposing additions to the (initially empty) working document.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>



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*Marília Maciel*
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Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - FGV Direito Rio

Researcher and Coordinator
Center for Technology & Society - FGV Law School
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