[governance] The New Class: Civil Society Professionals?

[Vittorio Bertola]

Robert Guerra ha scritto:
> Forwarding as it might be of interest to the list...

I think I share most points of Veni's post, except perhaps that in the 
first world the advantage for "professionals" might not be in terms of 
"lavish lifestyle", but rather of non-monetary rewards such as 
intellectual prestige, speaking opportunities, visibility on specialized 
media, better career chances and so on.

In principle, there is a healthy relationship in which a skilled 
individual devotes valuable time to voluntary positions, and in exchange 
he/she gets non-monetary rewards of that kind.

The relationship starts to become less healthy when the individual puts 
glue between his/her bottom and the chair, and cannot be removed from 
those positions unless twenty big sailors from the port of Singapore 
grab him/her and throw him/her off the window (in some cases, this 
implies throwing away the chairs as well).

Thus, the apparent reluctance to any significant and formalized rotation 
mechanism in the membership of the IGF AG makes me think that (for a few 
of its members) we should schedule one of the remaining IGF meetings in 
the port of Singapore.

Regards,
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