[governance] ITU Broadband Commission

[John Curran]

On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:03 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
> John,
>  
> Some time ago I stopped attempting to post useful stuff in response to random, non-directed, open ended, structureless, formless calls for best practices, case studies, etc.etc.  There are about a dozen of those (or more) floating around the ICT4D world at any one time.  In the absence of any indication of how one's effort is going to be considered, the opportunity to engage in dialogue and context setting with those in theory reading the documents, the process by which one's input might be considered and channeled into discussion, and so on, I consider it to be a major waste of time--providing the form of consultation without any of the substance.
Micheal - 
 
   Not participating is your prerogative.... (and that certainly makes the outcome 
   "completely predictable" as you noted earlier)
  
   Might it be more useful to engage in the process, and note that the lack of a 
   transparent formal process for consideration of submissions prevents this being 
   a reasonable form of multi-stakeholder input for civil society?

FYI,
/John

Disclaimer: My views alone.  Contents may settle during shipment.  Concepts may, in time, fade.

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