[governance] Final list and funding

[Eric Dierker]

I work in a fairly "executive/consultant" capacity most of the time. I read a lot of "papers".
I find myself either being asked or asking some form of this question many times a day:
"What does Socrates (any name) think of this?"  Because I am overpaid I know the answer.
Because I value the opinions of others I know the person. I want to know not just what the "paper" says but what Milton or Joe or Yahuda says about the paper or subject.  Sometimes a yes or no is good enough but usually I want a one liner or reference. I want to know if they have a lot to say or a little. I want a named footnote.
 
I reckon my suggestion would be to have, along with a name a 20 word summary by that person -- of course only if they choose to do so. Perhaps just an address to their blog. Or a reference to another paper.
 
I believe that by building tools into position papers such as this you both create more of a hub bub and you begin to establish an aura of respectability and a "go to" source. I copy Yahuda here because it is in doing such reference work that others will be more forthcoming in desiring to fund projects. Good governance is a combination of education and guidance. Good marketing and rallying is most fundamentally sound when created through information and education. Good governance recognizes the fundamental requirement that people are the source of authority and their opinions are the source for knowledge.

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Anja Kovacs <anja at cis-india.org> wrote:


From: Anja Kovacs <anja at cis-india.org>
Subject: [governance] Final list signatories comment on Draft Programme Paper
To: "governance" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 10:57 AM


Dear all,

Please find below the final list of signatories of the comment on the
Draft Programme Paper, as communicated to the IGF Secretariat last week.

Thanks to all for their support.

Anja


Re: IGF Draft Programme Paper, August 2009

We, the undersigned would like to express our surprise and
disappointment that Internet Rights and Principles was not retained as
an item on the agenda of the 2009 IGF in any way. Although this topic
was suggested as a theme for this year's IGF or for a main session by a
range of actors during and in the run-up to May's Open Consultations,
this widespread support is not reflected in the Draft Programme Paper,
which does not include Internet Rights and Principles even as a
sub-topic of any of the main sessions. The WSIS Declaration of
Principles, 2003, and the Tunis Agenda, 2005, explicitly reaffirmed the
centrality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to an inclusive
information society. To make these commitments meaningful, it is of
great importance that a beginning is made to explicitly building
understanding and consensus around the meaning of Internet Rights and
Principles at the earliest. We recommend that the Agenda of the 2009 IGF
provide the space to do so.



Signatories:

Association for Progressive Communications 
Bytesforall, Pakistan
Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IP Justice 

Jacques Berleur
Ginger Paque
Fouad Bajwa
Milton L Mueller
Willie Currie
Michael Gurstein
Jeanette Hofmann
Eric Dierker
Jeffrey A Williams
Charity Gamboa, chairperson Internet Governance Working Group, ISOC
Philippines 
Ian Peter
Tracy F Hackshaw
Shaila Rao Mistry, Internet Rights and Principles
Lee W McKnight
Jeremy Malcolm
Tapani Tarvainen
Shahzad Ahmad, ICT Policy Monitors Network
Carlos Afonso
Dina Hovakmian
Rui Correia
Lisa Horner
Deirdre Williams
Jaco Aizenman
Nyangkwe Agien Aaron
Siranush Vardanyan, Armenia
Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong
Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
Baudouin Schombe
Stefano Trumpy



Dr. Anja Kovacs
Fellow
Centre for Internet and Society
T: +91 80 4092 6283
www.cis-india.org 

____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20090901/53376cdc/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.cpsr.org
To be removed from the list, send any message to:
     governance-unsubscribe at lists.cpsr.org

For all list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance