[governance] Towards a Renewed Purpose and Vision for IGC, Co-coordinators 2015/2016

Fri Feb 7 15:43:19 EST 2014

Many thanks Deirdre and Mawaki,

I look forward to this new era in the Caucus. Thank you for your Message.
It is appreciated. It is indeed our collective responsibility to make sure
that the IGC remains relevant.

With every best wish for 2014,
Sala

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Antonio Medina Gómez <amedinagomez at gmail.com
> wrote:

> +1
> I'm very happy for this words and trust
> Congratulations
>
> Antonio Medina Gomez
>
>
> 2014-02-07 Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>  Thank you again from both of us for all the strongly positive messages
>> of congratulation and support.
>>
>> We have noticed the baptism of fire you have reserved for us, and take it
>> as your contribution to helping us get some tough skin for the ride.
>>
>>
>> We are very grateful for the good will that has been shown in order to
>> allow us to settle in with "a bit of peace on IGC". We hope especially that
>> we can, all working together, maybe not only achieve "a bit of peace" but
>> make it perpetual peace while still vigorously debating creative responses
>> to the Internet challenges as well as innovative ideas for its best
>> possible evolution.
>>
>>
>> Our joint vision is that by the end of our term (hopefully well before)
>> there is an IGC Renaissance, so to speak, with new and more cooperative
>> atmosphere in the Caucus and a track record of relevant
>> outputs/contributions to Internet policy processes. We are looking forward
>> to the continuation of input to this list and to the co-creation of
>> resources relevant to Internet governance, to Internet policy, and to
>> any other Internet issues that present themselves, paying particular
>> attention to the varied viewpoints of civil society.
>>
>>
>> The value of this caucus lies in the wealth of experience and the very
>> wide range of perspective and opinion held by its members. In order for
>> their values to be realized, those perspectives and opinions need to be
>> expressed. The way we see our function as co-coordinators is that we should
>> protect and facilitate that freedom of expression, *as unobtrusively as
>> possible,* indeed enable as diverse expression as possible, so that the
>> perspectives and opinions can become fairly negotiated and robust inputs to
>> the issues we confront together in Internet governance. In the same time
>> such freedom would be self-defeating if it only leads to incapacitating us
>> to forge a common purpose or at least to make collaborative, actionable and
>> incremental valuable contributions to those issues and for the evolution of
>> the Internet.
>>
>>
>> As much as we co-coordinators would like to keep this space focused on
>> material contribution to actual policy processes and decisions, we are not
>> in the business of policing posts to this list, much less the members'
>> opinions. It is the responsibility of each one of us to exercise judgment
>> in order to avoid language and posts that may lead to unproductive
>> engagements or even poison the atmosphere. As to any post/material whose
>> relevance to IGC may not be self-evident, it is a desirable thing (albeit
>> not mandatory) that the poster succinctly provides some rationale for
>> helping the reader make that connection. If they don't, anyone who feels
>> the need may ask for that. If such exchange were to occur, we urge all the
>> parties to try and keep it in as impersonal terms as possible. If anyone
>> feels strongly about making a point, let us keep it to the point,
>> precisely, not take it to the person whose ideas they think they have to
>> counter.
>>
>>
>> Wishing for the above does not make it a reality, we realize that, and
>> people will most probably post opinions or comments that won't make
>> everyone comfortable. But this does not have to lead to a tit for tat
>> reaction. If anyone feels like some material posted or opinion expressed
>> advances a political agenda they are opposed to and feels compelled to
>> react to that, instead of reacting to the person who posted the material,
>> why not take the minimalist approach to just post in turn a material that
>> present the opposite view they support?
>>
>>
>> There are potentially many positive goals for all the energy and wealth
>> of experience on this list. Let us focus our energy mainly on drafting and
>> discussing outputs and making useful contributions toward addressing issues
>> of Internet policy, Internet governance, Internet usage and the social as
>> well as societal impact of the Internet. We wish this note to be the most
>> obtrusive communication we will have to make to the list during our term.
>> We remain available to work off-list and bring sides together, if need be.
>> In the end, the continuous relevance of IGC is not just two
>> co-coordinators' job; it is in our hands to all of us.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for giving us a chance to help make this happen.
>>
>>
>> Deirdre Williams and Mawaki Chango
>> IGC Co-coordinators
>>
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