[governance] How to address political economy issues? (was Re: Internet as a commons/public good)

[parminder]

On Saturday 04 May 2013 05:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On 4 May, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>
>>> If people have to go elsewhere to talk about and articulate political
>>> economy issues with respect to the global Internet and its
>>> governance, it is not a good thing. For one, there seems to be no
>>> elsewhere to go right now. That is a gap which may need to be filled.
>> Talking and articulating positions can be done here, even if the
>> resulting statements do not reach consensus or rough consensus.
>>
>> If there is a desire for IGC to set up an infrastructure for developing
>> advocacy statements beyond what IGC is able to agree on by consensus
>> or rough consensus (I'm thinking of sign-on statements that would
>> have the support of some subset of the IGC members), I don't see any
>> reason why that couldn't be done. In fact this might be the best
>> possible interpretation of what the IGC mission statement says about
>> providing a forum for advocacy.
> Best Bits uses that exact model. We endeavour to produce a consensus, but at the end of the day anyone can opt out because the statements are not from Best Bits as a collective, they are from the named signatories who attended a Best Bits meeting (in person or remotely). So that's one of several reasons why I didn't think Best Bits was duplicating the IGC.

Whereby you are confirming that IGC''s primary focus  is not, and has 
not been, what Norbert seems to suggest  its primary focus now can be, 
or possibly the best interpretation of its mission statement always 
meant it to be :) . I think IGC is into a really deep existentialist 
dilemma .

parminder





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