[governance] Re: ITU consultation and open access => IGF working groups

[Norbert Klein]

+1

On 7/17/2012 2:58 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>
> I agree with Bill's critique of Jeremy and Norbert's approach 
> (re-invent the IGF and hope everyone shows up for it).
>
> It seems to me we have to get the IGF to work. The IGF itself, not a 
> clone or a re-run. If we can't get the governments that were critical 
> of the IG status quo, and the private sector players who were scared 
> of any deviation from the IG status quo, to work with us properly in 
> the context of the existing IGF, repeating the experiment in a new, 
> even more marginalized venue, is unlikely to work.
>
> But I also have to agree with Lee: the centerpiece of the campaign has 
> to be something more inspiring and motivating than whether we call 
> something a "working group." I would suggest that we find an issue 
> that people really want to do something about, such as evaluating 
> ICANN, ITU, etc. as Bill suggested, and try to gain commitments from a 
> critical mass of stakeholders to support some long-term initiative 
> around that.
>
>

-- 
Norbert Klein
nhklein at gmx.net
http://www.thinking21.org
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