[governance] Fwd: Your sign on requested- Civil society statement post-WCIT

[Avri Doria]

If you can get consensus on that statement, more power to you.

Personally I have my doubts, especially because I beleive our IGC self appointed jurists and ideological purists who have taken it upon themselves to police the IGC of late,  will heap sophism, preachings and scorn on all who disagree with them.

avri


On 22 Dec 2012, at 09:05, Norbert Bollow wrote:

> Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> wrote:
> 
>> As the IGC is as divided, if not more, than the WCIT itself, I do not
>> see how it is possible for this group to come up with a consensus
>> statement on the WCIT.
> 
> Even if it turns out that regarding this topic area there are more
> disagreements than agreements among global civil society, it would IMO
> be worthwhile to explain in a statement what the important agreements
> and disagreements are within civil society.
> 
> The situation is that there are less diverse collections of civil
> society groups who don't hesitate to communicate their viewpoints, more
> or less intentionally giving the false impression that the perspective
> which they present is "the" civil society viewpoint.
> 
> It is IMO not appropriate for the IGC to react to this situation by
> being simply silent.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
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