[governance] GCCS Speech

[Deirdre Williams]

Dear Colleagues,

In my imagination I have created an origin myth for the IGC.

Way back at the beginning I see a group of people who all recognise their
differences and their diversity but who, at the same time, all identify
themselves as belonging to civil society. I see them recognising the
potential weakening effect of those differences to the presentation of a
common approach, and therefore the desirability of a “civil society” space
for objective discussion and negotiation of the differences and the
diversity towards what common position may be possible.

I wasn’t there. Those who were can debunk the myth as necessary.

Within the context of this imaginary myth:

Last year Nnenna spoke at the Netmundial meeting in Sao Paolo. Many of us
were very enthusiastic about that speech. Daniel Pimienta suggested that we
might work on distilling it into a set of principles that, as civil
society, we could support. But we moved on to other things.

This morning Nnenna made another speech. Jean-Christophe has stated what he
disliked/disapproved of/disagreed with about the speech. Other people
offered uncritical praise for what she had said. But we should not be
“uncritical” with our praise. It would be good to see some constructive
discussion of what she had to say.

Best wishes

Deirdre


On 16 April 2015 at 07:06, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal <
jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net> wrote:

> Hi Nnenna from the Internet,
>
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“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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