[governance] communicating with our peers

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wzb.eu
Wed Feb 6 15:16:59 EST 2008


Yes, this sounds doable. But as Adam hinted already, you will be 
surprised how little there is to report over many months. Anyway, if 
others think this a good idea and the cs members on the MAG agree, we 
should do it.
jeanette

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 06/02/2008, at 8:26 PM, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
> 
>> Parminder wrote:
>>>> If you're just saying the civil society members don't report enough 
>>>> of what's being said, you're right.  We don't.
>>> That’s the whole thing, the entire point of the discussion and not a 
>>> minor
>>> post-script to the discussion. Can we know and try to understand why we
>>> don’t.
>>
>> Actually I am not sure if there has been any substantial issue that 
>> hasn't been reported by any of us.
> 
> How about setting in place more of a procedure, rather than leaving 
> reporting ad hoc as at present?  For example, producing a regular 
> fortnightly or monthly summary of discussions, and filling in any gaps 
> in the reports of in-person meetings would be helpful.  This doesn't let 
> the Chairs of the Advisory Group off the hook for not formalising such 
> procedures, but since it's within the power of the CS representatives to 
> increase the transparency of the MAG independently, it confuses many 
> that they haven't.
> 
> --Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
> Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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> 
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