[governance] coordinating the IGC

[Vittorio Bertola]

Robert Guerra ha scritto:
> Am curious to know if those involved in large CS networks and/or NGOs
> can suggest additional names to help with facilitation and coordination
> of this caucus.
> 
> For example, would anyone at APC, Ubuntu or NGLS be able and interested
> to  help out? Worth asking I guess...

This suggestion (even if I know that this wasn't your intention) reminds 
me of another point I wanted to make, regarding the issue of membership.

I personally would be quite disturbed if the caucus took the road of the 
  organizational membership, similarly to the HR Caucus (which however 
had some specific reasons for that, as pointed out before). I would 
recommend that caucus members do not wear hats while working here, and 
do not act as representatives of this or that NGO, but as individual 
human beings. Things could be different if you were to build a global, 
complex representative structure, but as long as this caucus is meant to 
be the "think-tank" of that handful of active people in the field, all 
of us should be peers; and I think that we should not forget that the 
Internet, even in the user rights advocacy field, has been up to now 
very often, if not mostly, shaped by lonely active individuals.

I was already concerned by the idea of organizational endorsements in 
our selection processes, as if names put forward by organizations were 
for that very reason more deserving of consideration. I would not be 
able to recognize myself in this caucus any more, if it became 
practically dominated by a few big NGOs.
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