[governance] communicating with our peers

[Parminder]

I agree with Adam's suggestion of two lists - one open and the other closed.
The business conducted on the closed list should be listed and also
summarized, as appropriate. We can suggest further changes after assessing
how such an arrangement works over a period of time. 

I also agree with Adam that complete public openness of MAG deliberations
may involve some very significant ramifications. The foremost is about the
level of participation of gov reps, who do hold a lot of power, in many
different ways. I am given to understand that their participation on the MAG
list is already very low. Will it further reduce with the new openness of
the list? What ramification does it has on MAG's capacity to make decisions
(which, in a politically diverse setting, almost always involve some
compromises) on substantive issues, which we hope it is able to do at some
time.

On the other hand we do want as much transparency as possible in global
public policy bodies. 

Jeremy, you are speaking about a third possible list where MAG members
participate as well as anyone else. Will have to further explore the
viability of such a list in the present circumstances. MAG members may not
be too eager to be on such a list, what do you say, Adam.


Parminder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:Jeremy at Malcolm.id.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:13 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; linda misek-falkoff
> Subject: Re: [governance] communicating with our peers
> 
> On 10/02/2008, at 11:44 PM, linda misek-falkoff wrote:
> 
> > Does it help - do you think -  if all those in the more admin and
> > decisional body are also in the more general list, sometimes called
> > a member list?
> 
> 
> On a tangent to this, it is little-known that there is already a
> mailing list for all IGF stakeholders, which the Secretariat created
> at my request but which they have not promoted or even linked to, and
> which has therefore been basically unused.  (See
> http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/plenary_intgovforum.org.)
>    The ideal case would be if, rather than necessarily creating a new
> list, all the Advisory Group members joined this list, and invited all
> the other stakeholders to do so, and started interacting with the rest
> of us as peers.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
> Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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