[governance] Dynamic Coalition working methods

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au> wrote:

> Ralf Bendrath wrote:
> > Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> >> I'm considering where to take things from here, but I'm open to 
> >> suggestions.  I would be happy to draft a list of criteria, develop a 
> >> rough consensus on it here and on the plenary at intgovforum.org mailing 
> >> list, 
> > Is that list populated yet? Especially: Is there a significant number of 
> > government reps? We can come up with anything we like at the moment, but 
> > the biggest problem seems to be the participation of governments. Don't 
> > overwhelm them.
> As I observed in the latest post at igfwatch.org, I'm no more concerned 
> that we will scare governments off, as that they will scare the rest of 
> us off but not listening to us and rendering this whole process pointless.

Regardless of who is most scary to whom, what is needed at this stage
is to create some "dynamic coalitions" / "working groups" / whatever
that are genuinely multistakeholder and that are capable of getting
some worthwhile work done.  Congratulations to Ralf for the progress
that he has succeeded in making!

I think that it will make sense to talk normatively about requirements
for some kind of formal or informal recognition of "dynamic coalitions"
when several "dynamic coalitions" exist which are actually delivering
results and we can be sure that the requirements that we would like to
impose on the "dynamic coalitions" will not have the effect of
preventing whatever multistakeholder progress is possible at the
current stage.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                       http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG        http://SIUG.ch
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