[governance] Fw: [cs-coord] On whether CSCG should be engaged on WEF's initiative (was Re: Timetable re WEF)

[Norbert Bollow]

For transparency on a key position taken by JNC in CSCG, and with the
idea to possibly also inspire discussion on this question in IGC and
BestBits which doesn't seem to started here yet...

Greetings,
Norbert
co-convenor, Just Net Coalition


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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 12:54:39 +0200
From: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
Subject: [cs-coord] On whether CSCG should be engaged on WEF's
initiative (was Re: Timetable re WEF)


On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:13:54 +1000
"Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> Tuesday September 2 ASAP after 8am - report to member groups and open 
> discussion focussed on whether we should participate and if so under
> what conditions.

After some very intense discussions, the current JNC view is that CSCG
as such should not be doing selections for WEF's initiative (whatever it
ends up being called.) The reasoning is as follows:

* It is fine for WEF or any other business group or anyone really to
  create an initiative in any way they like, with themselves in the
  steering seat, as long as they don't explicitly or implicitly claim
  it to be a multistakeholder initiative.

* Changing the name of WEF's “Netmundial Initiative” to something else,
  for example the idea of “Net World” that WEF mentioned, it a good and
  positive step but that's not likely to result in a very deep and
  profound change in how the initiative is perceived and framed now that
  it has made a big splash under the “Netmundial Initiative” name,
  unless it is also clearly rebranded as an initiative of a business
  community as opposed to a multistakeholder initiative. An initiative
  of a business community can of course still invite some civil society
  people to participate in a sense of advising them, that is perfectly
  fine. They can invite some whom they already know, and/or if they then
  still have gaps, I would in my personal capacity be happy to make
  suggestions about who else they might consider to invite.

* However CSCG should not be involved in making selections of civil
  society representatives for a “steering committee” which really has
  only an advisory capacity while the real decision making authority
  remains in the hands of WEF and its business members. This is in
  contrast the (real) NetMundial process where it was the
  multistakeholder committees which had the decision-making authority
  to steer the process. We should not involve CSCG in a way would
  contribute to creating the false impression of WEF's initiative being
  the same kind of multistakeholder activity.

Greetings,
Norbert
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