[governance] Re: Need for strategic planning (was Re: Why Cell Phones Went Dead...)

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

The trouble with big picture thinking is that it also requires coordinated
strategy, funding to research and maintain the big picture, forge links
with different stakeholders etc.

If that's missing, it is simply about 20 more emails on this list spent
discussing this issue.

Norbert Bollow [21/11/12 09:13 +0100]:
>Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>:
>
>> If you start off a conference with as vague and generic a goal as
>> "sustainable [x], [y] and [z]" and, what is much more important, no
>> action items for future work identified, little or no funding except
>> for the next conference at the next exotic venue, no permanent
>> staff / secretariat to keep the logistics moving .. what else do you
>> expect, other than more presentations?
>
>I's say that it's plausible to expect people to talk about what they're
>thinking and doing anyway (independently of the IGF), with specific
>emphasis on the aspects which are most related to the IGF theme.
>
>Now I have observed a near-total lack of engagement with the big-picture
>global-public-interest objective that constituted the official IGF
>theme.
>
>I interpret that as an indication of widespread (among the entire
>community of IGF participants) overall lack of strategic thinking on
>achieving the big-picture objectives that are clearly in the global
>public interest.
>
>Greetings,
>Norbert
>

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