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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

I would also suggest putting the video and the speech content/trasncripts
on the IGC website, alongwith relevant and related Net Mundial documents
and outcomes.


On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Deirdre Williams <
williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:

> It gives me great pleasure to announce on behalf of the co- coordinators
> that those who voted gave their support 100% (or if you add up the
> suggested numbers a great deal more than that) to endorse the speech made
> by Nnenna Nwakanma at the opening ceremony of NETmundial in Brazil. The
> dissenting voices disagreed with the need for the consensus call, but
> supported the speech.
>
> Nnenna herself makes no claim to the content of the speech - these are her
> words from a message in the thread:
>
> "I have avoided taking any particular credit about the speech, because I
> only listened to all those who had a say and summarized their issues. Then
> I proposed a  set of 3 issues per thread and the over arching issue of
> trust.
>
> To me, I dont see that I have done anything new.
>
> The best I can do is to listen and pick out what I hear as consensus. And
> stand by it."
>
> I hope she will forgive me if I say that while the content may be "ours"
> the delivery was all hers.
>
> So Gene, the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, after due process,
> offers its endorsement to "Nnenna's Speech", And let's follow Daniel's
> suggestion and "draw from the speech a "(civil society) core values"
> document which could be used as the *greatest common denominato*r of
> people joining this forum ...".
>
> Best wishes to all
>
> Deirdre
> (on behalf of the Co-Coordinators, IGC)
>
> --
> "The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
>
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