NCSG Policy Committee statement on IOC/RCRC proposal

[Alain Berranger]

We already have a vocal and knowledgeable subgroup of academics in
NCUC/NCSG and on our GNSO Council. Knowledge and experience are quite
useful of course, and to boot, it is as a result of SG elections, right?

I venture to say however, from my long experience in developing countries
and, more recently on boards of NGOs, that NGOs prefer by far to be
represented by NGO officers than by academics... like I'm sure academia
would prefer to be represented by academics than by NGO officers.

Alain

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> Any subgroup of academics that wants to issue a statement is able to do so
> at any time. There is no need to create additional organizational overhead.
> The Stakeholder Group can accommodate any ad hoc formation of a group of
> any kind. So, no need for a new constituency, and let's never confuse
> having a formal organization with having a meaningful voice, the two are
> quite distinct.
>
>
> Milton L. Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> Internet Governance Project
> http://blog.internetgovernance.org
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of
> > Avri Doria
> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 1:49 AM
> > To: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] NCSG Policy Committee statement on IOC/RCRC
> > proposal
> >
> > On 23 Mar 2012, at 23:39, Alain Berranger wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Is there an academic constituency under formation? I think it would be
> > a good idea. More clearly defined constituencies in NCSG (not silos mind
> > you), will create crisper statements of interest and healthier
> > fundamental debate. Federation at the NCSG level will make more sense as
> > we progress in that direction. Growing pains... for all!
> > >
> >
> >
> > it has been talked about, but none of the academics ever formed a group
> > to take the steps defined in the charter and the constituency doc to
> > form one.  i think there is a mixed feeling among the academics on the
> > value of forming a new constituency.  so they never reached the
> > necessary threshold of members interested in taking the action.
> >
> > avri
>



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