[governance] Who are we?

[Deirdre Williams]

Dear Norbert,
Is it better expressed if I say that Bestbits and JNC each appears to use
its own space as a space to agree and the IGC space as a space to disagree?
And that the disagreements are often full of rancour?

Democracy is a word, like multistakeholderism, which can be used for good
purposes and for bad purposes. I say that, with an example, as a statement
of fact not as a judgement on anyone or any institution.

I think civil society has been divided and stands in great danger of being
absolutely ruled.
Let's stop that happening.

Deirdre


On 23 May 2015 at 08:40, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 May 2015 07:48:46 -0400
> Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is distressing that both Bestbits and JNC, having each decided
> > that they preferred to come together with likeminded persons, should
> > both then decide to use IGC as a battleground.
>
> Being a co-founder and co-convenor of the Just Net Coalition (JNC),
> the last part of this statement and its implied mischaracterization of
> the nature of my postings is in my eyes highly offensive and quite
> inappropriate.
>
> I hereby formally request an apology.
>
> > Earlier this week I was present at a meeting locally at which a
> > venerable and respected NGO (turned 60 last year) was probably killed
> > by people shouting for democracy.
> [..]
> > So let’s regroup so that we can present a common front and so that
> > “they’ll see how beautiful (and powerful) [we] are, and be
> > ashamed” (with apologies to Langston Hughes)
>
> Does this mean that those who care about democracy, and who consider it
> essential that it must be accepted and respected when people talk about
> the need for governance to be truly democratic, will have to go
> elsewhere?
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>



-- 
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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