[governance] Re: [bestbits] Letters from Indian Civil Society organisations to the Chair of NetMundial regarding appointment of civil society co-chair

[Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal]

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JC

Le 11 avr. 2014 à 14:35, Norbert Bollow a écrit :

> McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> These seem to be unfounded allegations.  In short a smear campaign
>> with zero evidence behind it.
> 
> For what it's worth, I was in India in mid-February at a civil society
> meeting focused on Internet governance, shortly after the appointment
> of Subi Chaturvedi was announced. While it of course doesn't say too
> much that a European like myself didn't know who she was, it in my
> view says a lot that most of the Indians who were there didn't know who
> she was either, and it seemed that the few who had first-hand knowledge
> of her were outraged (considering her an "AT&T plant").
> 
> In my opinion, the one main benefit of multistakeholder processes is to
> allow those perspectives and viewpoints and concerns to be fully and
> duly taken into consideration for which this would not happen in other
> types of policy processes, because most perspectives and viewpoints and
> concerns don't enjoy the support of a powerful lobby.
> 
> Nota bene I'm not claiming that this benefit arises automatically in
> any kind of multistakeholder process. Quite on the contrary, we need to
> carefully design the future of governance in regard to any particular
> subject matter area, in order to make sure to achieve this benefit
> while at the same time also ensuring that fundamental principles such as
> democracy, primacy of human rights, etc, are not violated.
> 
> Now in regard to Netmundial, which is aimed at trying to move us a step
> forward in figuring out this future of governance, it is in my opinion
> absolutely essential that any "civil society" appointment to a key
> role, such as "civil society co-chair", must be someone who not only
> has ambitions and some claim of being a member of civil society, but
> someone with a track record of working to get those perspectives and
> viewpoints and concerns which not always heard fully and duly taken into
> consideration. This can't be done without becoming reasonably
> well-known among other civil society groups as part of that process!!!
> 
> Hence my conclusion is that the lack of any obvious track-record of
> the kind of work outlined above is pretty damning evidence in itself.
> 
> If her appointment to this role at Netmundial is not reconsidered, that
> in itself will, in my eyes at least, very seriously undermine any claim
> of legitimacy of Netmundial as a whole.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> P.S. Cc list trimmed, in order to minimize crossposting.
> 
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