[governance] Message to the IGC [Call for Wider Civil Society to engage in a Coalition]

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Personally speaking, I would oppose certain "civil society" actors speaking
for all of civil society, for specific countries, even for "the global
south" with no sign of consensus or broad support that I've ever been able
to discern. ISOC seems to do a much better job than such people, of
representing civil society interests so pulling them down might not be as
good an idea as it sounds.

	srs

Jeremy Malcolm [09/12/13 07:07 +0200]:
>On 8 Dec 2013, at 10:14 pm, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>
>> There has been no approach from ISOC to join. As far as I know ISOC
organises technical community representation for MAG CSTD etc so probably
has a quite different role to perform.
>
>For as long as ISOC is separately represented as part of a technical
community stakeholder group, it is of course completely inappropriate for
them to be part of the civil society coordination group and I would be
strongly oppose that.
>
>>  There has been confusion because some people are talking of a wider
civil society coalition emerging (This prompted my questions and those of
Carlos as to how this would relate to organisations such as Best Bits IGC
etc). Although I have no problems which such an initiative if there is a
need for it, I have made it clear that my personal involvement here is
purely facilitating co-operation for the selection of common
representatives, and any wider organisation establishment is a different
process and will need to be facilitated separately.
>
>Let's see if we can make the existing coordination group work before we
think about anything more ambitious.  It is deliberately lightweight and
has a narrow focus, and I'm not sure that a good case has been made for
anything more.
>
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