AW: [governance] CSTD IX. Conclusions and recommendations

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 30/01/2011, at 7:56 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> Wolfgang Kleinwächter <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
> 
>> If you start negotiations, you close mind and mouth of decision
>> makers and participants will only try to get "their position"
>> reflected in the final document.
> 
> Ok, so what kinds of textual outcomes are possible to create
> (beyond what the IGF has been creating so far) while avoiding
> this problem?

It's not that the outcomes we want are wrong, it's that the processes aren't in place for achieving them.  There is no need to resort to the kind of stifling negotiations that Wolfgang is worried about.  There are scores of tried and tested practices under the banner of deliberative democracy that are designed precisely to avoid such strategic behaviour, and have been proved successful in doing so.  The IGF even considered a variation on one of these - speed dialogues - for the Rio meeting.  It was, of course, torpedoed even before the second planning meeting rolled around.

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