[governance] Draft response to MAG questionnaire

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Sorry, this message crossed with my second draft, but these suggestions will be taken into account for the third draft.

On 06/10/2010, at 12:05 PM, parminder wrote:

> The development dimension to MAG will be that MAG takes on enough members that represent development constituencies and marginalized groups (becuase it is highly unlikely that the really marginalised groups - the really poor, the most discriminated against women, the most excluded disabled - will themselves ever be taken on the MAG). These constituencies can only be represented through organized groups working with and for them. I see very little, if any, representation of such groups in the MAG, or in general in the IGF, or even more generally in IG spaces, which is a key concern. 
> 
> Also we can specifically ask that MAG that when it prepares the IGF's agenda, and priortises issues, it should prioritise issues which directly concern the interests of these marginalized groups, and this is important, and mostly neglected at present, as they and those working with them see these issues, and not from-the-top experts, often technical experts.
> 
> I was more than a bit shocked with the kind of extra-ordinarily interpretations that some panel speakers in the IG for development session were giving to the concept and practise of development - things like IG for development must be about development of the Internet (!!!!!) , and that when we speak about development we should speak about development in the North and the South together, in the same vein, quite unmindful of the deep structural issues that characterise 'the development situation' in the South. One should recognize that poverty and development are not synonymous, and the latter refers to some specific, through broad, historical social conditions and structures. 

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