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answer from Robert WHEELER, Allie. United States , 18 August 2005

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I have been an active Ally since December 1997. I will definitely continue to take part in the Alliance. I continue to believe that it can play an important part in determining our planetary future. However I have been quite discouraged from time to time with the seeming lack of coordination within the Alliance, transparency in some decision making and organizing processes, lack of a clear process by which to participate in important decisions, etc.

For example, I have not known how Working Group Coordinators are selected; which Working Groups are active; how to develop a new Working Group; what support for such new Working Groups might be available; etc. Likewise I signed up for the Working Group on Global Governance a year before the Lille Assembly but there didn’t seem to be any type of discussion process that I could participate in. Nor did I see any of the materials for the Proposal Booklet until it was completed. As it turned out, it was very good; but still I think that there was some valuable input that I could have given.

Similarly, Marti Olivella organized an Alliance evaluation process which produced a report on all of the input that was given after the Lille Assembly. However, many of the recommendations that were made and which were included in the report just seemed to disappear without ever really being discussed or addressed. I don’t understand why this occurred or why we never had a chance to make sure that these things were incorporated in the restructuring and/or future development of the Alliance. I still think that Marti’s report should somehow be incorporated into either this or a later process.

Interested in being part of: the users committee for the Alliance Web site, the discussion group on the common calendar, the facilitation committee for the 2006-2007 strategy

 

 

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