[bestbits] [governance] Remarks at UNESCO Closing Ceremony of "Connecting the Dots Conference"

[parminder]

On Wednesday 04 March 2015 09:12 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org 
> <mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org>> wrote:
>>
>> You’re right, but you can nevertheless thank UNESCO for the 
>> opportunity to participate on a multi-stakeholder basis and 
>> acknowledge that the outcome document is a lot richer than it would 
>> otherwise have been because of this.
>
> Also, please clarify that the Just Net Coalition does NOT represent 
> all of civil society.  This given that Richard Hill on behalf of the 
> coalition has just disrupted the meeting with a formal objection to 
> the document due to its omission to qualify references to 
> multi-stakeholderism with “democratic” (which he incorrectly stated 
> was not objected to during the last drafting session)

If so, I will be interested to know who objected to use of the term 
'democratic' and on what grounds. parminder

> , and its omission to include a reference to the International 
> Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  Other than his 
> objection, the document was adopted by the meeting by consensus.
>
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