[governance] NetMundial and Indian CS: Discussing Transparency and Conflict of Interest

[Faisal Hasan]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Chinmayi Arun <chinmayiarun at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I signed the Indian Civil Society letter<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/popup/2014/4/Civil%20Society%20Letter.pdf>because I thought that a meeting as significant as NetMundial should be
> especially careful about the process it follows. Multi-stakeholder dialogue
> is and will always be an enterprise that will need to be handled with a
> great deal of care. If we seek to replace some inter-governmental processes
> with MS processes, surely we need to build the same safeguards into the
> multi-stakeholder mechanisms that exist in government functioning. It is
> therefore of the utmost importance that transparency and accountability be
> a part of multi stakeholder dialogue. I found it problematic that these did
> not feature in the appointments of the Chair, and considered an obligation
> to point this out. This is of course while maintaing my very high regard
> for all the people who worked so hard to put NetMundial together - it
> cannot have been easy to achieve so much so fast.
>


Totally agree.

Thanks
Faisal Hasan, PhD
ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter
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