[Mmwg] Creating spaces for civil society (and ICT enabledcommunities) (post) WSIS

[l.d.misek-falkoff falkoff]

Greetings and...

As one appreciative member of this list, I post from this port to thank Luc
Faubert for a 'language' or might I say 'interlingua' approach, as surely we
must be able t talk to and about all (multi) stakeholders within some shared
view of the 'universe of discourse.'   I have suggestions, others here
doubtless do too, and it will be a pleasure to together do some model making
in addition to broaching details.

Not too late to say happy new year ...
LDMF.
Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff
*Respectful Interfaces*
Communal Computing ARPANet forward.


On 1/10/06, Luc Faubert <LFaubert at conceptum.ca> wrote:
>
>  1. Scope of MMWG
> Interesting opinions by Gurstein and Currie, Jacqueline, but they concern
> mostly civil society's role in the MSH approach. From what I understand of
> our charter, our job is to come up with a global mechanism for all relevant
> parties to participate in IGF and other WSIS-related fora and to make
> recommendations to the UN secretariat.
>
> 2. Timeline and deliverables
> Our charter mentions the MMWG is created for two years. When are our
> recommendations due? Wouldn't it be useful to establish a timeline and a
> clear definition of our deliverables that we all agree on?
>
> 3. Mechanism
> What's a mechanism? To me, it's a way of building things. A grammar and a
> vocabulary. It may be helpful for us to think of our job as coming up with
> the rules to build and operate a MSH decisional body rather than try to
> design the body ourselves. After that the different fora (IGF et al.) could
> use our mechanism to build and operate the MSH decisional body they require.
>
> 4. Representation
> This brings us to the challenging issue of legitimacy and representation
> in the MSH process:
> a) Who must be represented? (We already have some propositions from the
> list for this)
> b) Who can legitimately represent groups who wish to be represented?
> c) Can individuals represent themselves? In the affirmative, what is their
> relative importance vs. other individuals representing thousands or millions
> of individuals?
> d) Who exactly do governments represent if the very people they are
> supposed to represent are represented by CS entities?
> e) What does "equal participation" mean in the MSH context?
>
> 5. Post MMWG
> What happens after we make our recommendations? Who makes the final
> decision on the MSH mechanism that will be used in IGF?
>
>
> - Luc Faubert
> ISOC Québec
>
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