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

[Guru]

It seems paradoxical that an insistence on the word 'democratic' should 
be seen as disruptive.
Or perhaps there is a deeper message here for the NMIs and the ICANNS 
and their friends - that  democracy indeed is disruptive
Guru

On Wednesday 04 March 2015 10:16 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:42:12 +0100
> Jeremy Malcolm<jmalcolm at eff.org>  wrote:
>
>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm<jmalcolm at eff.org>  wrote:
>>
>> 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”
> Since when does a formal objection in the context of a supposedly
> consensus based process constitute having "disrupted the meeting"???
>
>> (which he incorrectly stated
>> was not objected to during the last drafting session),
> Who objected during the last drafting session, and on what basis?
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> co-convenor, Just Net Coalition
>
>> 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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