[governance] Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC

[Mawaki Chango]

Thank you both for sharing your views with simplicity and clarity, which is
very helpful.

Safe space, Decorum and Fair hearing, Trust, Timely decision-making... Each
one of those notions does seem to capture one aspect or another of the
challenge IGC has been facing. I think further elaboration and work will
need to be done in order for a framework for Decorum, Fair hearing as well
as Timely decision-making to become effective. It seems to me that those
things must precede and enable the recovery of trust.

Any suggestions as to how to spell out or how to operationalize those
precedents are also welcome at any in this discussion. I will be sorting
out all ideas and suggestions into applicable categories.

Thanks again and keep them coming.

Mawaki




On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Particularly, please share your thoughts as to whether, in this
> > context of IG or Information Society more broadly, civil society
> > needs an analogue to what ICC BASIS
> > (http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/basis/) is doing for
> > business, and if so, what this would need to be like.
>
> In order to answer the question whether civil society NEEDs a
> coordination function (analogous to how business, or some subset of
> business, uses ICC BASIS as its coordination function) we must consider
> what will happen if we continue to not have a credible broadly accepted
> coordination function.
>
> There will certainly continue to be situations where the organizers of
> some important committee have no difficulty in knowing where to go to
> for getting representatives of the technical community which is at the
> heart of running the Internet's core infrastructure. They also know to
> go to ICC BASIS for business representatives.
>
> But where do they go for getting civil society represented???
>
> In my view, the lack of credible broadly accepted civil society
> coordination entity cannot continue for much longer without long-term
> damage to the influence of civil society as a whole.
>
> So, in my opinion, yes, we absolutely NEED a credible broadly accepted
> civil society coordination entity.
>
> What does it need to be like?
>
> I would say that most importantly it must be fair to all the different
> viewpoints and perspectives that exist in civil society.
>
> The must be a reasonable process that allows decisions to me made in a
> timely manner.
>
> And there must be a credible appeals procedure.
>
> If IGC is to meet this need, I would suggest that some reform is needed
> to enable it for reasonable and reasonably fast decision-making in
> regard to all the decisions that need to be made in the context of a
> civil society coordination function, while assuring that the personal
> biases of the coordinators (let's face it, everyone is biased in some
> way or other) don't translate into too much of a corresponding bias of
> the coordinating function.
>
> A major plus of IGC is that it already has a credible "appeals team"
> structure.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>
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