"bridge", was Re: VS: [governance] Summary Report of IGF MAG available

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

What you are missing is that civil society goals are achieved by consensus,
not blind adherence to dogma.   And they are certainly not achieved by
alienating every single other group that is favorable to your goals if they
don't toe your line to your exact specifications.

 

When you do that, you don't build consensus.  You try to force consensus as
defined by your own narrow world view of civil society.  

 

The IGC charter is much more broad and inclusive than you interpret it as.
And several organizations + individuals have just as much of a right, if not
more to be included in this.   And they back it by investing technical
expertise, personal commitment, money and resources etc in support of the
overall goals of the IGC.  You don't have any standing at all to demand
their exclusion .. any more than they do to demand your exclusion, or that
of the IGP (though I personally feel that wouldn't be a very bad idea at all
.. your naivete, and the IGP's petty politicking, are liabilities to this
common cause we're meeting together to push forward).

 

                suresh

 

From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:55 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Avri Doria'
Subject: RE: "bridge", was Re: VS: [governance] Summary Report of IGF MAG
available

 

 

Avri

 

I think your email is a very useful one to take this dialogue forward. I
agree with much of it, but also let me state some differences. 

 

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