[governance] Online survey on reform of the IGF

[Rui Correia]

Dear All

1. As a language practitioner, I am always sensitive to language
issues. Asking questions that are structured in the present tense to
refer to a future situation might be easy to grasp in English, but
becomes less in other languages. We are a world community and on this
list have all kinds of people, some less familiar with these formats.
I can't see why the questions cannot be formulated with "should". That
would make it clear to everybody.

2. The questions are not numbered, so, right now it makes it difficult
to refer to issues to be looked into to improve the questions.

3. What does one do with the secondary questions?
eg 1: To whom is the Secretariat directly accountable? + Is this sufficient?
eg 2: How is the MAG (by whatever name) selected? + Is this the best option?

4. What is the point of the question mark icon where the current
situation statement appears?

5. Refer to Point 1 above. I see that on the second page, questions
are formulated with "should".  On Page 3 it goes back to the present
tense.

6. On Page 3 the clear distinction between the first question and the
"currently/ at present" statement becomes blurred.

Regards,

Rui



2009/12/24 Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>:
> Hello all, and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!
>
> As foreshadowed by Ginger, I have created an online version of the survey
> that I posted to the list some time ago about reforms to the IGF that we
> might choose to put forward as a caucus.
> You can find the online version
> at http://igf-online.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=17855 (I aimed to put it
> up at igcaucus.org, but technical constraints prohibited it).  Participation
> is voluntary and anonymous.
> I have simplified it from the original version that I sent by email in that
> you no longer need to list "ideal" and "pragmatic" responses.  Be as
> pragmatic as you wish to be.  Even so, for some questions, there may be more
> than one answer you would be satisfied with - in that case just choose the
> best answer.  If no answers are satisfactory, choose "Other" and write in
> your response.
> Please complete your response by 10 January 2010.  Following that, I will
> work with Ginger to produce a draft statement based on any consensus that
> emerges from the survey.  I will post this to the list, and after a
> discussion period we will aim for a consensus call on it.
> Many thanks in anticipation of your responses!
>
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