[governance] Comments on Rio - Suggestions for Delhi - main

[Parminder]

> Parminder wrote:
> 
> > No way, forget it. No body that exercises power in realms that directly
> > affect other people (and a considerable number of them, all internet
> > users) can be considered CS. Even by the definition you picked (at
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Society#Definition )it wont pass.
> 
> Bear in mind that these organizations have several people who are involved
> independently in CS.  And are among the more sympathetic stakeholder
> groups,
> wrt CS goals and issues.
> 
> If you alienate and exclude them from the definition of CS, you are, as
> McTim puts it, shooting yourself in the foot.
> 
> 	srs

But I thought I had made a clear distinction between some people involved
with these organization (though their centrality to the power structure
within these organizations will still be an important issue) being CS and
these organizations themselves being considered a  part of CS. Is there not
a huge difference between these two formulations.

Quoting myself from my email

>I can still understand someone arguing that one can be CS and still be on
>these bodies, but to say these bodies are a part of the CS is just the
limit


Parminder 


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