[governance] RE: [bestbits] Call for Transparency Process for 1Net

[Mishi Choudhary]

Although there may be merit in not devoting too much of our energies on
something i.e. merely a logistics committee but  I can't help wondering
and agreeing with Parminder, considering the enthusiasm some of the
corporations are displaying in getting their own representatives, the
astroturfers on the 1Net.

On 02/10/2014 02:16 AM, parminder wrote:
>  
> On Monday 10 February 2014 12:23 PM, David Cake wrote:
>>
>> On 10 Feb 2014, at 6:16 am, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Precisely what are people afraid of in insisting that 1Net, a
>>> formation that was interposed and interposed itself between “CS” and
>>> the Brazil meeting, make transparent its decision making processes
>>> including in the crucial areas of financial supports and
>>> expenditures and decisions as to inclusions and exclusions. 
>>
>> I am not afraid at all of 1Net increasing its transparency and
>> accountability mechanisms - on the contrary, that would clearly be a
>> positive outcome. But I am quite afraid that we will spend a much
>> larger amount of time debating the internal functioning of 1net,
>> which at this point is largely a mechanism for dealing with
>> administrative issues to do with a single event, rather than
>> focussing on the substantive policy outcomes of that, and future,
>> events.
>
> This is untrue on both counts. The fact being as below;
>
> (1) The primary purpose of the 1Net is to strongly influence (if not
> actually write) the outcomes of the Brazil meeting (something I have
> been insisting since the very beginning)
>
> (2) The serious 1Net-ers want it to be a standing multistakeholder
> mechanism. So many have explicitly said so on so many lists.
>
> I think one-sided naivete is not the best response for civil society
> to take to all this, which unfortunately seems to be the dominant
> response. (I say one-sided naivete becuase there is hardly any naivete
> when for instance a UN kind of process is involved.)
>
> People in post colonial societies cannot but use colonial analogies to
> understand geo- political situations. The British set up an
> establishment in India 'merely' to facilitate its trade to 'the east'.
> They ended up ruling the country for more than a century. Apologies if
> the analogy is seen as 'too strong' - it is merely to underline the
> need for political foresight...
>
> parminder
>
>
>
>
>
>> Regards
>>
>> David
>>
>


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