AW: [governance] CSTD IX. Conclusions and recommendations

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

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

If right now it's not politically feasible to implement this kind
of thing at the "whole IGF" level, maybe it's possible to implement
it at the "workshop" level, for those workshops whose organizers
want to do it, initially?

Greetings,
Norbert
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