[governance] Fwd: Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Fri Mar 29 04:59:26 EDT 2013


BTW, the definition employed by the OECD for technical community in our 
very area of Internet governance in terms of forming stakeholder groups 
can be seen here <http://www.internetac.org/?p=22>.

You will see non ISOC, non ICANN, non RIR organisations as founding 
members of the Technical Community Advisory Group to OECD Intern policy 
making process. Organisations like Internet2 which is 'community of U.S. 
and international leaders in research, academia, industry and government 
who create and collaborate via innovative technologies'.

And these are just founding members of the Technical Community Advisory 
Group, others can join in. But what we have from the definition that was 
employed by the Focal point for selecting technical and academic 
community reps to the WG on EC, someone applying say from the 
"internet2' project/ community would not have qualified.

Strange that they qualify for OECD body as technical community but not 
for the UN system.....

Evidently, the definition of even the technical community part of the 
'technical and academic community' employed by the Focal point is 
erronoeus, what to say about the 'academic community' part which seem to 
have simply been banished.

A strong stench of power capture is evident here, but our own colleagues 
will have it that we behave as well manner status quoists and not raise 
such pesky issues.

parminder



On Friday 29 March 2013 01:53 PM, Guru गुरु wrote:
>
> On 03/27/2013 08:52 AM, McTim wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> <suresh at hserus.net>  wrote:
>>> There is an individual identified from a university in Senegal.  Do 
>>> university administrative staff not qualify as "academic community"?
>> Alex is not just admin staff of the Uni, but a great teacher and
>> network builder in West and Central Africa.  Last time I saw him he
>> was waiting all night for a flight to ouagadougou to teach at the Uni
>> there.
>
> Admin staff of a University as the sole* 'academic community' 
> representative on the WG? I think the academic community would find 
> this quite absurd.
> (* I am waiting to hear from the focal point for T&A community on who 
> are the academic community representatives in this group)
>
>> In any case, here is a rejoinder from another IT for Change complaint
>> about CSTD politics:
>>
>> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/03/reflecting-my-role-interim-chair-open-consultations-and-mag-meetings 
>>
>>
> McTim, can you please point to when and where did IT for Change 
> complain against appointment of Markus as the interim chair.... In one 
> earlier occasion, I remember, you had levelled unfounded allegations 
> against Parminder on this list, and when he challenged you to 
> substantiate, you just did not respond.
>
> Also, what does CSTD have to do with IGF appointments? Kindly avoid 
> bringing in red herrings to deflect from the 
> serious_issue_of_the_legitimacy_of_the_selection_process_for the T&A 
> community for CSTD WG.
>
> Guru
>

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