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<DIV>I work in a fairly "executive/consultant" capacity most of the time. I read a lot of "papers".</DIV>
<DIV>I find myself either being asked or asking some form of this question many times a day:</DIV>
<DIV>"What does Socrates (any name) think of this?" Because I am overpaid I know the answer.</DIV>
<DIV>Because I value the opinions of others I know the person. I want to know not just what the "paper" says but what Milton or Joe or Yahuda says about the paper or subject. Sometimes a yes or no is good enough but usually I want a one liner or reference. I want to know if they have a lot to say or a little. I want a named footnote.</DIV>
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<DIV>I reckon my suggestion would be to have, along with a name a 20 word summary by that person -- of course only if they choose to do so. Perhaps just an address to their blog. Or a reference to another paper.</DIV>
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<DIV>I believe that by building tools into position papers such as this you both create more of a hub bub and you begin to establish an aura of respectability and a "go to" source. I copy Yahuda here because it is in doing such reference work that others will be more forthcoming in desiring to fund projects. Good governance is a combination of education and guidance. Good marketing and rallying is most fundamentally sound when created through information and education. Good governance recognizes the fundamental requirement that people are the source of authority and their opinions are the source for knowledge.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 9/1/09, Anja Kovacs <I><anja@cis-india.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Anja Kovacs <anja@cis-india.org><BR>Subject: [governance] Final list signatories comment on Draft Programme Paper<BR>To: "governance" <governance@lists.cpsr.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 10:57 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Dear all,<BR><BR>Please find below the final list of signatories of the comment on the<BR>Draft Programme Paper, as communicated to the IGF Secretariat last week.<BR><BR>Thanks to all for their support.<BR><BR>Anja<BR><BR><BR>Re: IGF Draft Programme Paper, August 2009<BR><BR>We, the undersigned would like to express our surprise and<BR>disappointment that Internet Rights and Principles was not retained as<BR>an item on the agenda of the 2009 IGF in any way. Although this topic<BR>was suggested as a theme for this year's IGF or for a main session by a<BR>range of actors during and in the run-up to May's Open Consultations,<BR>this widespread support is not reflected in the Draft Programme Paper,<BR>which does not include Internet Rights and Principles even as a<BR>sub-topic of any of the main sessions. The WSIS Declaration of<BR>Principles, 2003, and the Tunis Agenda, 2005, explicitly reaffirmed the<BR>centrality of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights to an inclusive<BR>information society. To make these commitments meaningful, it is of<BR>great importance that a beginning is made to explicitly building<BR>understanding and consensus around the meaning of Internet Rights and<BR>Principles at the earliest. We recommend that the Agenda of the 2009 IGF<BR>provide the space to do so.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Signatories:<BR><BR>Association for Progressive Communications <BR>Bytesforall, Pakistan<BR>Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore<BR>Instituto Nupef, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<BR>IP Justice <BR><BR>Jacques Berleur<BR>Ginger Paque<BR>Fouad Bajwa<BR>Milton L Mueller<BR>Willie Currie<BR>Michael Gurstein<BR>Jeanette Hofmann<BR>Eric Dierker<BR>Jeffrey A Williams<BR>Charity Gamboa, chairperson Internet Governance Working Group, ISOC<BR>Philippines <BR>Ian Peter<BR>Tracy F Hackshaw<BR>Shaila Rao Mistry, Internet Rights and Principles<BR>Lee W McKnight<BR>Jeremy Malcolm<BR>Tapani
Tarvainen<BR>Shahzad Ahmad, ICT Policy Monitors Network<BR>Carlos Afonso<BR>Dina Hovakmian<BR>Rui Correia<BR>Lisa Horner<BR>Deirdre Williams<BR>Jaco Aizenman<BR>Nyangkwe Agien Aaron<BR>Siranush Vardanyan, Armenia<BR>Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong<BR>Linda D. Misek-Falkoff<BR>Baudouin Schombe<BR>Stefano Trumpy<BR><BR><BR><BR>Dr. Anja Kovacs<BR>Fellow<BR>Centre for Internet and Society<BR>T: +91 80 4092 6283<BR>www.cis-india.org <BR><BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow>governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR> <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org" target=_blank
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