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<DIV>""These discussions would be a lot easier to have, and more productive, if the technical community was willing to listen to forms of expertise other than engineering and computer science."" <BR></DIV>
<DIV>Our Internet Civil Society would prosper at much higher levels if this true <EM>digital divide</EM> were not so omnipresent. Milton uses the term "listen to" I would heighten it to a level of Respect. If the logic/science professionals would look at their own expertise and respect the same level of expetise in the softer social sciences we would be much closer to true respectful interfacing. Somehow it is like the common man who looks at a beautifully built and sculpted athlete and respects and admires such. But show him an intellectual sitting under a tree contemplating and he thinks that is a waste of time. Internet Governance must begin to respect the level of abilities and studies of those in the more philosophical, nuance and social sciences. But more, they must learn to respect them as they do themselves.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 4/11/10, Jeremy Malcolm <I><jeremy@ciroap.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><BR>Subject: [governance] Reposting Workshop 3: Transnational enforcement of a new information order – Issues of rights and democracy<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 1:06 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>(Awaiting final text from Parminder, but here is his summary.)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Basically we will discuss issues that have come up around ACTA (for instance see the latest posting on IP watch at <A href="http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=10061" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=10061</A> ) as the main focus. However some other issues may also come up - like Google - China stand-off, Google's appeal to US gov to consider global information flows as a trade issue and use trade related enforcements in this area, Google and others cutting off or limiting their services to countries on US's trade sanctions list (trade embargo issues and IG is mentioned in the Vilnius program document), non availability of major online payment systems in countries like Pakistan etc .....<BR><BR>The attempt here is to move beyond the focus on governance of the basic technical/ logical infrastructure (ICANN etc) also to the governance of the
emerging global information infrastructure. (At a still different level, though connected, is the governance of the social interactions/ networking infrastructure, but that is not something this workshop will get into).<BR>
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