[governance] Who are we?

[Akinremi Peter Taiwo]

In agreement with Deirdre. You actually access my thought.

CS need to come together and speak one voice.

Regards
On May 23, 2015 2:11 PM, "Deirdre Williams" <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
>
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> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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