[governance] Fwd: IGF 2012 - Bilateral meeting

[JFC Morfin]

At 23:04 01/11/2012, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>5 or 6 people, max? Ridiculous. This is an inherently bad, 
>undemocratic method.
>Governments such as the EC try to impose false notions of 
>"representation" on civil societty, by seeking a few "spokespersons" 
>or "representatives." Their only real object is to make their job 
>easier. We should decline to cooperate with this political version 
>of artificial scarcity, and just insist on an open meeting. I am 
>serious. If you are so flattered that they asked for your opinion, 
>but go along with their attempt to reduce civil society to a few 
>privileged voices, you are completely missing the point.

+1
However, these people most probably only want to be clearly taught in 
an open minded meeting (they cannot negociate anything with the civil 
society except through a constitutional referendum) . A way to deal 
with this could be for you to ask them the topics they would like to 
cover. So you may also organize the meeting and introduce you as 
expert in civil society positions as by its very civil (not organized 
nature) civil society has no representative. Try to explain them that 
is the same as if we asked them to coordinate 3 or 4 European States 
to meet with us.
jfc 


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