[bestbits] Draft joint letter on deliberative democratic processes for the Brazil meeting

[Carolina Rossini]

+ 1 on Jeremy and Joana


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Joana Varon <joana at varonferraz.com> wrote:

>
> +1 to Jeremy.
>
> Also, I really think a draft document (not just a compilation of
> proposals) will be needed prior the event, so it:
>
> a) will help transparency (meaning, it will be very bad if the
> participants get into a room for 2 days, draft something and approve it
> without broader consultation);
>
> b) will help consensus building from March to the end of April (otherwise
> from the submissions of proposals on March 1st to April 24 the Committees
> will just become a black box)
>
> c) probably a better proposal
>
> On the issue about who to draft it, I agree with Jeremy that we should use
> as much tools and channels needed for an online deliberative process to
> build it. If how to use this tool is still too broad. I suggest EC convene
> a working group with techies for that, they would have a month to organize
> it. Yasodara, who built the consultation platform for Marco Civil is at
> W3C, within CGI.br, It's not impossible. And we can always offer our help
> for brainstorming.
>
> And if any Committee need to facilitate and structure any text, my take is
> that people will be more comfortable if it's EC, just as it is announced at
> the first press release. As the chairs of HighLevel are Touré (ITU) and the
> Brazilian Minister of Communication$ (in my view, not the best duet for
> internet freedom/multistakeholderism).
>
> my two cents
>
> joana
>
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> Joana Varon Ferraz
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> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>
>>  On 04/02/14 22:02, Marilia Maciel wrote:
>>
>> My own feeling about it is that we should either focus on pushing for
>> on-site deliberative mechanisms that would facilitate consensus during the
>> Sao Paulo or on pushing for an online platform. My impression is that the
>> organization of the meeting would lack experience to identify the best
>> model of on-site deliberation for this particular meeting and setting. If
>> we want on-site deliberative mechanisms in place, we would need to offer
>> assistance with that, and this would consume us. But I think it would be
>> worthy.
>>
>>  Regarding the platform, it is not clear to me what is the expected
>> timeframe for us (how to make a meaningful consultation fit our schedule)
>> and which document (if any) should be the base of our consultation.
>> Remember, for instance, that the synthesis paper that will be produced by
>> the Secretariat will only be available on March 7. Should the synthesis be
>> the base of our online debate?  In my view, comments on a synthesis doc are
>> likely to produce just another syntheses. It is not clear at the present
>> moment that we will have an actual draft proposal on principles or
>> frameworks prior to the meeting and, if so, who should produce it.
>>
>>
>> Surely there will have to be a synthesis of contributions as the basis
>> for discussions in Brazil, and either the community will have to develop
>> it, or the Brazil committees will have to do so; and in my opinion it would
>> be better to give the community that opportunity to the extent possible.
>> This points to the need for an online deliberative process, actively
>> facilitated by the appropriate Brazil committee/s.  The facilitation will
>> be hard enough work in itself, and involve a degree of judgment as to how
>> to present the inputs in a useful and neutral way.  I'm not understating
>> the difficulty of the exercise, but surely nobody expected getting tangible
>> outcomes from the Brazil meeting would be easy...
>>
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