[governance] Internet Social Forum

[David Cake]

On 24 Jan 2015, at 12:57 am, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> 
> But to answer your question:
> 
> 1. Of course the "call to occupy the Internet" is not directed to
> governments. That should be totally clear from the text that we have
> published. We are at this point not in any way formally linked to the
> occupy movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement but we use
> the term "occupy" to broadly align the Internet Social Forum initiative
> with that kind of protest viewpoint.

	Clarifying that the use of the occupy terminology (much as the term 'social forum' itself) is simply an attempt to associate a JNC project with an unassociated protest movement, with quite different goals, is appreciated. 

> 2. Did anyone seriously think that when JNC decided that we would not
> participate in the "NETmundial initiative" which was originally
> single-handedly led by WEF and then led jointly by WEF, ICANN and
> CGI.br (while there appears to be strong evidence of WEF still being
> the leading partner among the three), that that would mean that we
> would want to remove ourselves entirely from an important part of the
> discourse about the future of the Internet???

	We may have been a little surprised at the degree to which JNC is willing to try to co-opt the goodwill of unassociated organisations in order to promote its rather different agenda. 

	I for one found the obvious attempt to associate the ISF with the WSF, a forum that is based around a broad, diverse, pluralistic organisation of global civil society, having its name associated with a group that represents a very narrowly defined, deliberately excluding the mainstream civil society position, somewhat disingenuous. 

	I for one would welcome discussion of internet governance within a WSF context, but reject the ISF as a legitimate attempt at doing something similar, for obvious reasons. 
	Cheers
		David

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