[governance] New MAG announced

[Marilia Maciel]

First of all, congratulations to all IGC members that have been selected,
through IGC Nomcom or by other means. I am also very comfortable a happy
with the choice.

Thanks, Mike, for bringing up the experience of the open government
partnership to our attention. It will be definitely interesting to follow
this experience of governmental/non-governmental cooperation more closely.

Regarding this very important topic of keeping the flow of information
between MAG and IGC, I believe that both sides have shared responsibility
to make it happen. On the IGC side, it is important to provide timely
feedback when MAG members send information and ask the views of IGC members
about a given topic. On some occasions, I think that we failed to provide
useful feedback in a timely manner. So, a commitment from us to follow the
list/Skype/Twitter, at least during OC and MAG meetings is key, in my
opinion.

On the other hand, MAG representatives do need to find more efficient ways
to report back. Share tasks/topics among them is an option. Taking into
account the limitations like Chatam house Rules, the use of Skype and
Twitter should also be consider. It is a thin line between disclosing
enough/too much, but we should strive to find it. Also, sometimes we need
to push the boundaries a bit and try to make little steps towards improving
communication and transparency. The experience with CSTD WG (that began as
a more closed experiment than MAG) proved it is possible to do it in a
positive and respectful manner.

Moving beyond communication between MAG and IGC members, I think that CS
should also try to communicate better its views with the outside world.
This is part of outreach, as much as is part of the political process of
dispute of views in Internet governance. There are too few sources of
information about IG that have become references online. Of course, each CS
organization has its own medium of communication, but I think it would not
hurt to develop a more coordinated approach, cross-references, or maybe a
shared online space, that could even be in IGC website.

Best,
Marília

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <4F9AB305.3030201 at eff.org>, at 16:53:57 on Fri, 27 Apr 2012,
> Katitza Rodriguez <katitza at eff.org> writes
> >I think, what we haven't done, but may be it is an idea is to blog
> >about the meetings as long as you do not attribute the names. It has
> >been working very well in CSTD as long as it is without names. May be
> >this is something that might help inform the discussion and solve the
> >reporting problem?. Of course, I do understand that many people won't
> >have the time but many others may?
>
> Blogging also has the problem that you might be revealing your thoughts
> to people outside of your tight stakeholder group.
>
> But anyone without the time to "report back" (in whatever form we deem
> appropriate) doesn't seem to me to be qualified to be one of the
> members.
>         "All Advisory Group members serve in their personal capacity,
>        but are expected to have extensive linkages with their
>        respective stakeholder groups."
>
> 'Extensive' is a very strong word.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> To be removed from the list, visit:
>     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing
>
> For all other list information and functions, see:
>     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
> To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
>     http://www.igcaucus.org/
>
> Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
>
>


-- 
Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade
FGV Direito Rio

Center for Technology and Society
Getulio Vargas Foundation
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20120427/f8088fe1/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t