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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Bill wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>>> I don't think it makes sense for CS to patently misconstrue a
straightforward concept from economics, but it’ll probably remain in
there regardless.>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>And from an earlier mail of Bill:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>>>Lastly, while this doesn't pertain to the IG sections of the
text, I have a question:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>>>Pg. 1:"societies in which the ability to access, share and
communicate information and knowledge is treated as a public good"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>>>Pg. 2: "Internet access, for everybody and everywhere,
especially among disadvantaged populations and in rural areas, must be
considered as a global public good."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>>>Can someone explain to me according to what understanding of
economics CS should declare an ability, or Internet access, to be public goods,
bearing in mind the two key dimensions thereof:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>>>>Non-rivalrous — its benefits fail to exhibit
consumption scarcity; once it has been produced, everyone can benefit from it
without diminishing other's enjoyment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Non-excludable — once it has been created, it is very difficult,
if not impossible, to prevent access to the good.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>It is not any
misconstruing a straightforward concept from economics, but sufficient thought,
deliberation and research has gone into it. Please find enclosed a paper
commissioned by APC and another by ITeM on this issue. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>Public goods is a
widely used concept in a broader sense – and Global Public Goods is
increasingly used concept in global governance discourse (pl see various UN
documents on it). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>There are few pure
public goods, and many other goods that are complimentary to pure public goods
are also considered public goods. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>In the above
formulations there are three goods considered as public goods – access to
knowledge, ability to access knowledge and the means of free access to
knowledge (Internet access being one major mean)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>Access to knowledge
and ability to access to knowledge are widely recognized as public goods
(education is considered a public good, and it basically consists in access to
knowledge and capacity to access knowledge) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>So I cant see what
could be anyone’s problem with that – in considering access to
knowledge and ability to access knowledge as a public good. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>As for considering
access to Internet as public good – as discussed above there are few pure
public goods – and the description is used in a wider meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>Providing Public Goods
almost always is mediated through provision of goods that are not pure public
goods. And construing the definition of public goods as strictly within two
necessary conditions as laid above leads to absurd results. For example,
eradication of communication is a global public good – but this
conception is meaningless if we say, but well providing access to necessary vaccines
to all is not a public good – because such a provisioning is obviously
excludable. So any meaningful and actionable consideration of ‘prevention
of communicable diseases’ as a public good is possible only if
provisioning of necessary vaccines is also considered a public good. Without
the later, the former conception is obviously meaningless, and a mere play with
words. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>So if we consider that
Internet today is a major vehicle not only of access to knowledge, but also the
major enabler of so many life-enriching opportunity, it is obvious that a
market-based provisioning of Internet greatly under-optimizes these great
universal opportunities. Everyone will be much better off if a public goods
based provisioning of internet is made. There is a lot said and written on this
issue (including with regard to public provisioning of Internet in many cities
in the developed countries) and the inputs made to the draft CS declaration is
informed by all these. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>It is in any case the
job of the CS is to take such views of issues that are forward-looking, and
based on principles of social justice and equity. I may also add here that a
global public goods based approach to ICTs has been a main plank of CS advocacy
during the WSIS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>I know that in saying
what I am going to say now, I will be treading on dangerous grounds, but I do
feel that many on this list (IG caucus) take too much of a efficiency-driven,
almost a positivist approach to Internet rather than a normative approach -
about what all can Internet can do to build a world that is more equal and just
to everyone. Maintaining and enhancing efficiency and stability of the Internet
is very important, but Internet is a potent force with great potentiality, and
much hope has been vested by many on its possibilities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>I think sorting out
the basic approach of what are we really looking for here in our IG advocacy
will help us a lot to move ahead. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color="#3366ff" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3366FF'>Parminder </span></font><font
color="#3366ff"><span style='color:#3366FF'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#3366FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org
[mailto:governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of William Drake<br>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:02 PM<br>
To: Governance <br>
Subject: Re: [governance] New version of WSIS CS statement: Two IG issues<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi Jeanette,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> -----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> From: governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> [mailto:governance-bounces@lists.cpsr.org]On Behalf Of Jeanette
Hofmann<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> regarding your first suggestion to add our stuff to the list of
major<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> goals, it seems this is a question of political preferences and
weight.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> We can certainly suggest this addition but so might 10 other
caucuses<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> who believe that gender issues, community radios and other vital
issues<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> constitute crucial goals. In other words, this is for the editor<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> to decide.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I understand your concern, but a few points in response:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>First, while it is indeed possible that other groupings might want
their<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>issues so positioned, I don't think the addition of one sentence on IG<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>would be the primary reason for this. There are already grounds
for such<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>a response. Second, IG was by any measure the most heatedly contested
and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>headline grabbing focus of phase II. This is not a personal
interest-based<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>assertion that IG is ‘more important’ than other items, I
think it’s a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>statement of empirical fact. There was a high-stakes global
battle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>underway that CS expended a great deal of effort to weigh in on, and we<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>actually had an impact in some important respects, so why should we be<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>afraid to say this was a major concern going in? If I were a
government<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>or press person reading the statement, I’d certainly wonder why
IG wasn’t<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>listed as a key objective. Third, frankly, my preference would be
to have<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>passages on each of the three main foci of the negotiations as
determined<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>by governments---IG, financing, and follow-up and implementation---and
one<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>each on HR and multistakeholder inclusion; that is, three
issue-specific<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>and two cross-cutting objectives. Starting from what phase
II was<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>actually about seems entirely logical and a clear basis upon which Ralf<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>could explain what is listed here and what is not. There is
anyway lots<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>of text later on in the statement on issues that received more emphasis
in<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>phase I.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> 2. IG caucus participation: I like your wording but wonder whether
we<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> should be so specific about the working group we are discussing.
Do we<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> have already agreement on the scope of the working group? I am not<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> convinced yet that the wg should solely focus on
"modalities". So why<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> not something like "...create a working group that will make<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> recommendations on relevant aspects concerning the IGF".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Makes sense, I was just using the extant formulation. Since
Avri's ok<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>with your suggestion, unless someone objects, I hope Ralf can take this
on<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>board. Re: Vittorio's concern, I don't think saying that the
caucus will<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>try to set up a WG implicitly or explicitly means that any other CS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>grouping can't do what it wants.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>> I agree with your points re "public good".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I don't think it makes sense for CS to patently misconstrue a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>straightforward concept from economics, but it’ll probably remain
in there<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>regardless.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Lastly, in light of things said in the thread concerning the public<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>awareness paragraph, I would suggest that this should be moved to the
four<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>para section on Education and Research, which I presume Divina played a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>role in shaping. Clustering like points and having thematic
sections that<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>come from people involved in the respective caucuses would in no way<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>constitute a downgrading of this important concern.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Again, since Ralf is trying to wrap this up by tomorrow and wants to
know<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>that there is buy in before he makes changes, I hope people can weigh
in<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>yea or nay on the two IG points.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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