[OSList] urgent need of your wisdom : how to reassure a political guy who fears that the OST format will not be inclusive enough ?

[Harrison via OSList]

Does sort of put you in a hard place, Christine! J It never fails to amaze me how people create situations bound for failure, and then try to throw the responsibility to somebody else. Frankly there is no process on earth, of which I am aware, which would enable 90 disparate people to achieve the results expected, all in three hours. Of course if you cut the time further by adding a few speakers you can pretty well guarantee total frustration. If it is worth while doing, it is worth while doing well, I do believe. And doing what seems to asked for is not only an exercise in futility, but demeaning/insulting to the participants as well. Oh well, I guess it is really fortunate that I am several thousand miles away. I am sure I would create a whole mess of trouble.

 

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of christine koehler via OSList
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Subject: [OSList] urgent need of your wisdom : how to reassure a political guy who fears that the OST format will not be inclusive enough ?

 

Hi 

 

 

of course, the way I put it sounds rather comic..

 

I am supposed to facilitated a 3h 1/2 OST next wednesday with 90 participants from a very diverse background (impact of local actions on climate change and COP21  -in Paris next fall- and they are all local actors : politics, technicians, companies, non-profit etc.. Host is the territorial entity via a  statesman with a territoral mandate. 

All has been organized in a few days, we have considered many different design to come back to OST because of simplicity and efficiency .

But now the sponsor fear that there it will not enough reflect the diversity of actions and timeframe  and the possibility to create a kind of frame to support long term action on the territory.

Diificulty lies in the goal : for the planning team, immediate need is the use of the space that the entity is willing to rent (and pay for) during COP21 BUT that has to be run collectively (and not as usual here « we do it for you ») , for the politics, the goal is « long" term with something that will be created and will last even after the COP21 event.

 

I believe that OST s the only way that may reach all those goals in such a short time frame (at least set the first step) but obviously there is no control enough for him and now he want a few discourses speeches from a variety of actors before opening the space so that everyone knows about all this and that…

 

What would help me is what you did in similar situation.. because I don’t know what to tell him (« trust the process obviously does not work…) My appointment (by phone of course, such a busy man) with him is in a few hours

 

 

 

Christine 

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