[governance] Substantive discourse processes for the Brazil MSM (was Re: Meeting ... between the LOG and 1Net)

[Norbert Bollow]

Dear all

After a bit more delay than I had hoped, I'm now ready to start woking
on a proposal document on substantive discourse processes for the
Brazil MSM...

I have set up a wiki as a workspace for this, please be bold in editing
http://digital-age.info/wiki/Brazil_2014_proposal_on_substantive_processes
and pages that you create, linking them from there.

Hopefully we will be able to identify at least one reasonable way in
which substantive inputs can be handled, a way that will be seen as
acceptable from a broad variety of perspectives (not limited to civil
society perspectives).

I think that what ways for handling substantive inputs are reasonable
will depend to a significant extent on assumptions about the
objectives of the MSM, which haven't been decided yet. It might be the
best approach to make several proposals on the basis of several
possibilities for how the objectives of the meeting can be defined.

In any case, let's get going!

The following three people (who are not subscribers to the IGC mailing
list) have requested to be Cc'd:
 
Richard Hill <rhill at hill-a.ch>
Daniel Iga Mwesigwa <daniel.igamwesigwa2003 at gmail.com>
Birgitta Jónsdóttir <birgitta at this.is>

Please keep them listed in Cc over the course of this discussion.

Greetings,
Norbert




Am Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:00:45 +0100
schrieb Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>:

> Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > [MG>] My problem/”unhappiness” results from the fact that I would
> > very much like to see the Brazil process succeed… I think the
> > Internet and all of it’s users (and non-users) would benefit from
> > such a “success” but I’m having considerable difficulty in seeing
> > how outcomes contributory to the general good can emerge from input
> > processes such as these.
> 
> In my view, so far the processes for soliciting and handling
> substantive inputs are still totally undefined, and as I understand
> the current set-up, it will be part of the responsibility of the
> Executive Committee to ensure that these processes for the
> substantive discourse will be good, transparent and accountable.
> 
> If that isn't achieved, I will consider the Brazil MSM to be a failure
> before it has even started.
> 
> But IMO right now there is no reason to be fatalistic about this!!!
> 
> I'd suggest that all shortcomings of the processes through which
> various committees are populated are significant only if those
> shortcomings lead to the MSM not having good, transparent and
> accountable processes for the substantive discourse, or to the MSM's
> output document not having worthwhile content.
> 
> I think that a lot of the criticisms that you Michael and others have
> made are valid, but unless the meeting dates are postponed, it is
> simply not possible now to reboot the committee selection processes.
> 
> Why don't we use the time until the first meeting of the “Executive
> Multistakeholder Committee” (Monday, January 27th) to come up with a
> proposal for “good, transparent and accountable processes for the
> substantive discourse”?
> 
> I'm making myself available as editor for such a proposal document.
> 
> Ideally this document will be formally adopted by the IGC through a
> consensus or rough consensus process; I will certainly conduct the
> editing process for this proposal document with the aim of reaching
> IGC consensus if possible. If however it turns impossible to reach IGC
> consensus, that will not be the end of the idea to create such a
> proposal, but rather I would in that case publish the proposal as a
> sign-on statement.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 


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