[governance] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy- Bloomberg

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

There is no such thing as a global public interest, it is too utopian a concept.

A shared consensus on best practices and acceptable standards of behaviour / codes of conduct are about the closest you will have in real life and outside wcit, igf etc slide decks.

--srs (iPad)

On 17-Nov-2012, at 20:48, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why?
> 
> The discussions around the WCIT/are overrun with precisely those kinds of
> generalizations.
> 
> But it is a serious question, if we believe that there is a global public
> interest (in the Internet) who do we trust to best represent that public
> interest (IBM, Google, the USG?) and within what (global) framework will
> that representation best take place (the market place, the US State
> Department, Google, the IGF?). (Unfortunately, I don't see CS as
> sufficiently strong or as sufficiently independent to even mention it in
> this context.)
> 
> M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:39 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
> Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Why Cell Phones Went
> Dead After Hurricane Sandy- Bloomberg
> 
> michael gurstein [17/11/12 06:00 -0800]:
>> Who can we rely on to act in support of the (global) public 
>> interest--IBM, Google, Facebook, AT&T, the USG, "the market"..?
> 
> "civil society"?  also note "act effectively"
> 
> Generalizing would be a grave mistake here.
> 

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