[governance] ECTF (was Re: Chinese preparing for...)

[Norbert Bollow]

Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
> To those supporting this, what does strong government participation mean?
> 
> - Participate as equals in a multistakeholder group?
> - Be a majority in such a group?
> - Have a voice that is more equal than the other voices?

My current idea is to aim for about 1/3 of the persons on
the working group to be governmental delegates.

I would suggest that every working group member would
participate as an individual and with equal weight in
determinations of rough consensus. But of course, the
weight that is given by the group to any particular view
will depend on the perceived expertise of the speaker
with regard to the topic under consideration. For example
when participating in such a group, when the topic under
discussion is how the views and needs of poor people in
developing countries can be appropriately taken in
consideration in ECTF, I will, in the determination of when
I would hum (or however the group chooses to measure rough
consensus) want to give greater weight to the views of anyone
who has grown up in such conditions than e.g. to the views of
a Western industrialist. When the topic under discussion is
how to structure ECTF processes in order to avoid making
participation unreasonably difficult or frustrating for people
with non-technical public administration background, I will
want to give greater weight to what the government
representatives say than to what e.g. engineers say who have
never worked in a government context.

I would expect the other working group participants to
similarly apply common sense in weighing viewpoints, so that
whatever rough consensus results, will be as reasonable a
recommendation on the way forward as what can possibly be
achieved.

Greetings,
Norbert

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