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<div>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.
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<div>Not too late to say happy new year ...</div>
<div>LDMF.</div>
<div>Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff</div>
<div>*Respectful Interfaces*</div>
<div>Communal Computing ARPANet forward.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luc Faubert</b> <<a href="mailto:LFaubert@conceptum.ca">LFaubert@conceptum.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">1. Scope of MMWG</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">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.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">2. Timeline and deliverables</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">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?
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">3. Mechanism</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">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.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">4. Representation</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">This brings us to the challenging issue of legitimacy and representation in the MSH process:</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">a) Who must be represented? (We already have some propositions from the list for this)</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">b) Who can legitimately represent groups who wish to be represented?</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">c) Can individuals represent themselves? In the affirmative, what is their relative importance vs. other individuals representing thousands or millions of individuals?</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">d) Who exactly do governments represent if the very people they are supposed to represent are represented by CS entities?</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">e) What does "equal participation" mean in the MSH context?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">5. Post MMWG</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">What happens after we make our recommendations? Who makes the final decision on the MSH mechanism that will be used in IGF?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">- Luc Faubert</font></div>
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