[governance] Saving the IGF
Milton Mueller
mueller at syr.edu
Mon Jun 11 06:14:27 EDT 2007
>>> vb at bertola.eu 6/10/2007 10:30:52 AM >>>
>...a discussion of this
>magnitude and importance going on in the AG should
>have prompted its civil society members to raise it
>immediately on this list and/or the CS plenary. I do
>not think that they omitted doing so on purpose, but
>IMHO we have to be more committed to building
>effective channels of communications between
>our representatives in the AG and the broader set of civil society
>participants, especially as the IGF might adopt more formalized
>representative structures.
Well said. I agree.
>We in civil society were the main proposers of the IGF,
>and so I think that it is up to us to try to save the IGF
>from these threats, and try to bridge the two positions.
Yes. Perhaps this can be a topic at the CS meetings in San Juan's ICANN
meeting?
>We always tried to represent the hope for a better future,
>and protect the Internet from any specific interest group.
>Under this light, I couldn't care less about the bureaucracy
>of the AG rules - I think that we should focus on how to
>save the IGF.
The priorities here are good ones.
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