[governance] caucus contribution, consultation and MAG meeting

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> I responded to this on the workspace at
> http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/archives/79 where I said that I was
> not sure that relying on small groups to spontaneously self-organise
> will work. Experience shows that more active facilitation of the
> process is required.  If it happens at all, then it may end up as all
> the ISOC people together, all the Diplo people together, all the
> Google people together... It is sometimes better to force people to
> engage with each other so that they are exposed to viewpoints that
> are outside of their comfort zones.  This is one reason why the Best
> Bits meeting worked well.

Good point.

I've added "(there probably needs to be active facilitation of the process to
encourage small groups to form with a good mix of stakeholder
categories)" to the draft text.

Greetings,
Norbert.

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