[bestbits] new BB statement - reflections on NM

[Seun Ojedeji]

Honestly if you are saying this then I think we may have missed the
advantage that NETMundial brought.

For me I think NETMundial was an avenue where respective stakeholder made
their concern known and also got an almost immediate response from the
other stakeholder that has different view of the same subject. You cannot
over emphasis benefits of such an environment; especially towards creating
a widely acceptable language on various topics of discussion. I feel this
was what that section was trying to address and I really don't view it as
marketing words and even if they were marketing I think it will be towards
getting other stakeholders to voice out their concerns with the aim of
producing a roughly and widely acceptable statement.
The Era of us writing a long  statement to government about our concern and
receiving a short response of "... we will discuss this" OR "... we will
work on it" is over! We need 2-way communication on real-time basis in
other to achieve actionable results!

My few cents.

Cheers!

sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 2 May 2014 17:05, "Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal" <
jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:

> -1
>
> I cannot understand the fact that BB contradicts a public statement made
> at Netmundial by publishing this text.
>
> I cannot understand that sentence
> To be truly multistakeholder is to not just admit, but to welcome and
> integrate those whose opinions differ from your own, and to give others
> time to understand and evolve their perspectives.
> We should welcome diverging opinions, to give others time to understand
> and evolve how right are the others? Who are the others(1)? and the others
> (2)
>
> I cannot understand this language
> We also need to understand the symbolic and policy impact of what happened
> in Sao Paulo.
> Who is that stupid that he/she needs to understand something different
> from his/her own judgement on what happened or didn't happen in SP?
>
> If CS had a long term commitment, it would with no doubt understand, that
> life is full of red line that cannot be overpassed. This is why CS should
> raise a stronger voice, as it did at the end of Netmundial. That was a
> clear message to other parties present at Netmundial.
>
> This statement seems like a call to funders: *please keep funding us, we
> are nice people. No offense. Please come back*. Well indeed let's go back
> to kindergarden policy.
>
> This is unfair and ridiculous on all accounts. Where is CS dignity in this
> kind of volte-face?
>
> Therefore it is a minus one for me.
>
> JC
>
> Le 2 mai 2014 à 17:28, Carolina Rossini a écrit :
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> During the last few days, and to deal with the frustration some of us have
> been feeling, I put together a basic statement text that has received
> inputs from many of you so far. It grow from 1 page to almost 2. I do feel
> we have reached a point where the text is closed and round. So I write to
> you to ask you consider signing it. It bring reflections on the NetMundial
> results. I hope this is more representative of how many of us feel. And I
> do think it is a good closure step.  It was in a google document
> until recently, but Jeremy did the favor to put it online, behind a
> password.
>
> http://bestbits.net/netmundial-reflections/
> pass: bestbits
>
> Adam as suggested small changes - mostly regarding flow, and I will look
> for Jeremy online to adopt those.
>
> I hope you can consider signing it.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> --
> *Carolina Rossini*
> http://carolinarossini.net/
> + 1 6176979389
> *carolina.rossini at gmail.com*
> skype: carolrossini
> @carolinarossini
>
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