[governance] Internet Technical Community Background Document to OECD Ministerial

[Roland Perry]

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<7663C7E01D8E094989CA62F0B0D21CD901E0DB7E at SUEXCL-02.ad.syr.edu>, at 
06:15:20 on Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> writes
>>What about my example of a School Board, composed of volunteers
>> from the community that the school serves,
>> no government involved anywhere,
>
>School Board members are elected parts of local govt in my community and
>in most local communities in the US.

As I mentioned to Milton in Paris the other day, I have a selection of 
hats...

One of those is as a representative of parents on the "school board" at 
the public "high school" where my children attend. (The terms differ 
slightly in the UK, but I'll use the USA-ian words as they probably have 
more universal recognition).

About half of the twenty-some members of that board are parental 
representatives, voted for by parents. Only one is currently a 
representative of the local government who fund the school. The 
remainder are a mixture of staff, private sector benefactors and 
"community" interests (almost entirely ex-parents), the first being 
selected by the staff the rest by the board.

All are volunteers.

I can imagine people asking "how does the local govt retain control with 
only one board member", but their funding is decided by a central 
government formula that no-one can change, and criticism of the school's 
performance is done by central government appointed inspectors.

I can now imagine people asking what the school board's function is, and 
the longer I stay on it the less of an answer I have :)
-- 
Roland Perry
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