[governance] IGC Feedback on Internet Principles and Dynamic Coalition [ Call for Comments]

[McTim]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org> wrote:
>
>> > [ST]: McTim I hear what you are saying. Your view does not in anyway
>> > represent your country and I agree and it will be noted and recorded. It
>> > is
>> > just to help us know where you are based physically.
>>
>> Why is that a useful metric?
>
>
> A possible answer could be fo instance to have some statistics about the
> attendance


but I'm not attending!

from developing countries civil society
> where the cost of such traveling is hardly supported by universities of
> Civil Socity Organizations without
> some type of international mechanism (which did occur more frequently during
> the WSIS and tend to
> disappear now leaving a potential balance problem which should be tracked).
> Another possible answer could be linked to linguistic diversity.
>
> It is indeed a good practice for any international meeting to have at hand
> statistics on different factors
> which need to be tracked (geographical presence, gender presence...etc).
> Dont you agree that equitable balance in some key factors is a worthwile
> objective?

If I had registered, I would have given my nation of origin at
registration, but since I am not there, I didn't give anyone
permission to use this data.   What if every single comment were to be
discounted or weighted more because they came from a certain
geography? We are talking in this case about ideas (objections or
reservations or support of them) So in this case, no.  I want a
meritocracy, where ideas stand or fall based on how good they are, not
their origin.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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