[Mmwg] Re: IGF Input

[David Allen]

Off the current 'flow,' but since it's come up:

Myself, I took pleasure, to see you bring up the question of MS 
participation in mmwg.

AFAICS though, the practical question is priorities.  In the two or 
three days ahead, none of this should get attention.  Whatever may 
lie past that time - perhaps the priority is to move beyond the 
current tiny handful of people who would propose to speak for cs.  If 
governments, and others, are going to take serious notice - and take 
seriously what is presented - it will be because there is some clear 
depth, across nations and peoples.  That takes real investment in 
time and energy, nor is it done easily.

Right now:  power to that handful, with a deadline,

David

>David:
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>I've been a long proponent of outreach to broaden the CS involved in the
>discussions (individuals, organizations, academic centres, etc..).
>Bringing new voices allows for a richer discussion, however it does some
>coordination and good moderation for contributions to be prepared on
>time for specific deadlines.
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>That begs the question - what is the exact scope and focus of this
>working group. Is it CS only, if so then we shouldn't call this a
>multi-stakeholder group.
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>If in fact the MM in the list name represents "Multi-stakeholder
>modalidies", then I think indeed we should reach out and invite  the
>other stakeholders to this list.
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>Until this gets settled, i'll wait and not yet contact the private
>sector and govt representatives I was going to invite to the list.
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>A reminder - we have until this weekend to contribute points and/or
>specific comments to meet the comment deadline set by Desai last week.
>let's make sure NOT to miss that deadline...
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>regards
>
>Robert
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>David Allen wrote:
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>>  With civil society many, many groups and individuals across many, many
>>  lands, literally many millions of people - but perhaps a dozen people
>>  active on this list purporting to represent civil society - it would
>>  seem the first task is to broaden participation and representation, here
>>  - in fact very dramatically to broaden civil society participation and
>>  representation here.  Rather than, for instance, a priority on effort to
>>  bring governments to mmwg.