[governance] Thinking about models for EC

[michael gurstein]

Further to the back forth with Avri on models for EC -- to IETF or not to
IETF, to OGP or not to OGP...

Something a bit in the middle might be interesting to try out on a
prototyping basis at the IGF... Say around Net Neutrality... to see what the
outcome might be
.
This below has a lot of the bottom up features of the IETF without a lot of
the unnecessary process baggage and much of the flexibility and speed
towards decision making/outcomes of the OGP approach... (I still prefer the
<http://www.opengovpartnership.org/> OGP approach, with
<http://wp.me/pJQl5-9f> reservations but perhaps it is useful to get out of
the somewhat formulaic approaches being argued around in this space... 

My overall concern however, remains (with this approach as with others) to
ensure some degree of broader base of accountability beyond the simple
incantation of "multi-stakeholderism"... But this may be a way to begin to
move forward, if haltingly... in a situation where the foirmal processes
seem to be blocked by opposing positions and where the default i.e. to do
nothing is untenable since it is to opt for trends and existing decision
processes of which an increasing number particularly (but not exclusively)
in the Developing world are deeply critical.

"The hackday approach to prototyping social solutions is emerging all
over the shop. Sometimes they're bottom up, like the upcoming Digital
Health Hack, or top down, like the Government Digital Service's homeless
hackday, or coming sideways out of a traditional NGO, like the first
RNIB Hackathon.

Projects arising from such hackdays follow the path of the lean startup.
They aim to get a minimum viable something-or-other out into the world,
to test it against real needs. Like the web they're in permanent beta -
never finished, always adapting. Practitioners are, like AppsforGood,
following the pedagogy of Paulo Freire by critically engaging with
transforming their reality."

 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professiona
ls-blog/2012/may/28/prototyping-replaces-policy-arts-culture>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professional
s-blog/2012/may/28/prototyping-replaces-policy-arts-culture


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