[governance] Statement for Feb 13, version 2

[Lee McKnight]

Now I'll agree with Bill that we shouldn;t get distracted. A quick copy
edit by Bill and we're done

It is historically significant in this universe to get a CS text into
the first meeting post-igf I.

I'm sure McTim will agree 12 is less than a third of 40, so
statistically speaking, including a bit of whining is good politics
positioning CS for the next round.

Lee

Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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>>> dogwallah at gmail.com 2/11/2007 8:06 AM >>>
Hi Bill,

On 2/11/07, William Drake <drake at hei.unige.ch> wrote:

> We have indeed discussed this repeatedly and there's no need to
reconstruct
> again the historical meaning of the term, the way CS is commonly
understood
> in all other global policy spaces and institutionalized in UN and
other
> processes, or the stratagems that have led to it being rendered
problematic
> and mysterious here, unless the objective is simply to reignite old
debates
> and run out the clock on a caucus statement.  I would suggest a
simple
> solution: insert "coalition that came together during the WSIS
process" in
> the statement, i.e. "dissatisfaction [with] the very limited
representation
> of the civil society coalition that came together during the WSIS
process."
> That is after all what Vittorio is really referring to

Well if we want to be truly honest, then why don't we say
"dissatisfaction [with] the very limited representation of a
like-minded subset of the civil society coalition that came together
during the WSIS process."  Or to be perfectly frank "we are whinging
because not enough of us were chosen"

My point was, why don't we just NOT whinge, it sounds like sour
grapes, and seems fruitless!

, and it factually
> uncontestable that ISOC

ummm who said anything about them?  Perhaps it's from your parallel
universe ;-)

> was not part of that coalition and generally
> promoted positions that were at odds with those of both the caucus
and the
> larger WSIS CS assemblage,

Which doesn't necessarily mean they were wrong at the time.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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