AW: [governance] bureau

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

Good point, Bertrand
 
this is exactly the difference between top down (where you first create a box and fill later this box with content, the classical mission creep) and bottom up, where you start with an issue and create an appropriate organisational mechanism around the issue (which makes it much easer to end the mechanism if the issue has lost its relevance).
 
wolfgang 

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Von: Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Di 22.05.2007 16:33
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Veni Markovski
Cc: Mr. Robert Guerra
Betreff: Re: [governance] bureau


Dear Veni, does the remark below ("Whenever there's something that resembles, even very vague, power,
this ruins good cooperative working") also apply in your mind to some internet governance institutions boards we sometimes discuss ? No pun intended. 
 
More seriously, the multi-stakeholder approach in my mind means that small group that are often created (steering groups, advisory groups, facilitation teams, etc...) feels it is at the service of the broader commmunity to support its efforts in reaching consensus, rather than acting as a body of representatives taking decisions on behalf of this larger community, like traditional bureaus or councils do in the traditional representative democracy approach. 
 
Maybe we could keep that in mind while discussing theses issues. Smaller groups should not exercise power but facilitation.
 
Best
 
Bertrand

 
On 5/22/07, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote: 

	Having been on the previous WSIS CS bureau, and having seen all the
	political gaming behind it, I strongly agree with Robert. 
	Whenever there's something that resembles, even very vague, power,
	this ruins good cooperative working.
	
	veni
	
	At 08:26 5/22/2007  -0400, you wrote:
	>Having been on the previous WSIS CS bureau as focal point for North 
	>America and Europe, let me concur with Bill Drake and others who
	>state quite clearly and quite articulately that a "Bureau for CS"  is
	>an inappropriate construct for the IGF process.
	> 
	>
	>regards,
	>
	>Robert
	>---
	
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