[governance] Call for consensus - endorsement of speech by Nnenna Nwakanma on behalf of Civil Society at Netmundial, Brazil

[parminder]

On Thursday 24 April 2014 07:04 PM, Daniel Pimienta wrote:
> Nnenna did an excellent job presenting civil society position, both in 
> the form and in the susbstance (and I am not surprised).
>
> Yet it is hard for me to understand why we need to tautologically 
> endorse the speech of who (brillantly) represent us.
>
> Is it that we do not trust our representation system and we need a 
> posteriori to confirm representation?
> Is it that we try to make a public showcase of a consensus within IGF 
> where we all know it is not existing?
>
> If it was to try to identify a subset of values and visions we do all 
> share then, as Mike suggested, we should work on them,
> reflect from this speech and build upon this subset rather than making 
> a communication show.


Only that picking and choosing will lead us towards controversies that 
will perhaps be unsolvable, and the idea is to capitalise on the the 
massive positive reaction to Nnenna's speech not only within CS but 
almost universally,,



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