[discuss] 1Net, Brazil and other RE: BR meeting site launched

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 15/01/14 23:33, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> Tacitly, I have already given you my answer to this in the message
> that appeared 30 minutes earlier; however, let me address your
> questions directly:
>
>  
>
> 1.       How do you see the role and potentials of 1Net? What should
> be its task in a wider IG context?
>
>  
>
> 1net has no real task in a "wider IG context." Nor was it created to
> fund medical research to cure cancer, to run a film festival or to
> write a philosophical treatise. 1net was created with the specific
> purpose of coordinating and mobilizing non-state actor input and
> representation in the Brazil meeting.
>

Milton maybe you lack some of the background of those who were in Bali,
though actually it is has also been repeated in the list discussions. 
It was very clearly stated at the earliest meetings of stakeholders in
what would become 1net, that the role of 1net should not be considered
restricted to the Brazil meeting, and that the stakeholders in 1net
could themselves decide now to be involved in the Brazil meeting
preparations, if at all!  Fadi used almost these exact words, and at the
first meeting of the proto-steering committee (now the list) that
followed, the tech community representatives played the Brazil meeting
down considerably.

That's not to say that your idea would not have been a better one.  But
let's not rewrite history.

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