[governance] Saving the IGF

[Carlos Afonso]

Yes, I agree as well with Bertola's good points. Who will be at the 
Icann meeting in PR? We could plan a specific joint meeting of all CS 
constituencies who will be there.

--c.a.

Milton Mueller wrote:
> 
>>>> 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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Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor - Rits
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