[governance] RE: [Coalition] Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council(CSISAC) Charter

[Milton L Mueller]

Hi, Marc
I just caught up with this message, and I think I speak for several CS
groups in saying that this is just not the way we ought to be going
about constructing a joint, unified civil society presence in OECD. 

The document was not developed on the public Wiki that you (EPIC)
yourself created; it ignores the output of a collective meeting of the
involved CS groups in Geneva; it unilaterally declares your own
organization the "Secretariat" without any process for gaining the
consent of other civil society organizations. And releasing a proposal
one day before you discuss it on a call is bizarre and minimizes the
opportunity for actual participation and acceptance.

So I won't be on that call and don't think anyone else outside EPIC will
be, either. 

Let me know when ya'll decide that this is about civil society and more
than just EPIC. 

--MM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coalition-bounces at mailman.epic.org [mailto:coalition-
> bounces at mailman.epic.org] On Behalf Of Marc Rotenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:08 AM
> To: coalition at mailman.thepublicvoice.org
> Subject: [Coalition] Civil Society Information Society Advisory
> Council(CSISAC) Charter
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Drawing on the comments that were submitted to the Public Voice list,
> the various meetings that took place in Seoul in June, and the
> subsequent meetings with the OECD in Geneva and Washington, we have
put
> together a proposal for the OECD Secretariat for the "Civil Society
> Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC).
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