[bestbits] [governance] Re: [IRPCoalition] Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period for ITU Plenipot joint recommendations

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Those certain colleagues - well, it is entirely possible to advise them to 
do something anatomically impossible to themselves and then continue as usual..

An agency's political oversight on the other hand isn't as easy to ignore 
but then it often depends on political rather than sound policy imperatives



On 26 October 2014 9:28:45 am Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2014, at 4:47 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The difference is that the politician or bureaucrat is subject to some or 
> other formal structure of accountability (these may or may not work all 
> that well but they are there and there are often and increasingly in many 
> instances, legal ways of enforcing them); for the email provider (or NGO) 
> the only accountability is to the market and for the NGO there isn’t even 
> that which of course is a major major problem.
>
> There are many ways in which NGOs make themselves accountable accountable 
> (by internal elections, membership meetings, publication of records) and 
> for INGOs there is an accountability forum that holds them to a high standard.
>
> Additionally in the Internet governance space, we are under the microscope 
> of certain of our peers who have appointed themselves with that task, and 
> who seem to go about it with some delight, even to the detriment of our 
> more substantive agenda.
>
> --
> Jeremy Malcolm
> Senior Global Policy Analyst
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> https://eff.org
> jmalcolm at eff.org
>
> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
>
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