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Thanks for this Rui. The following quote is rather pithy and instructive<br>
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"envision(ing) a meaningful public life that lies
beyond both the market and our supposedly "unfettered" digital space
(which is actually far from unfettered).In asking these questions,
we're really inquiring about the viability of democracy itself."" <br>
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Internet's relationship with and impact on public life, public sphere
and democracy is the key issue that should drive the Internet
Governance (IG) agenda, overcoming our fixation on Internet vis a vis
the market paradigm. At the very least, this issue should drive civil
society agenda in IG. However, a progressive civil society in the
global IG space that could articulate and advocate such an agenda is
almost entirely absent. There is, in my view, a more or less exclusive
focus on personal freedoms, chiefly FoE and privacy - no doubt, basic
rights - at the expense of such collective priorities and agenda.<br>
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Parminder <br>
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Rui Correia wrote:
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type="cite">"Public policy has a role to play in fostering an
entrepreneurial,
innovative, reinvented journalistic sphere that, in the language of the
recent Knight Commission Report, sustains democracy in a digital age.
Net neutrality is a good place start, and so is open data, but
government might have additional roles to play in stabilizing
precarious local news ecosystems -- as long as such support does not
unfairly benefit monopolistic incumbents. Is it possible for large,
unwieldy government bureaucracies like the Federal Trade Commission to
strike this balance? Questions like this are really questions about
whether it is possible to envision a meaningful public life that lies
beyond both the market and our supposedly "unfettered" digital space
(which is actually far from unfettered). In asking these questions,
we're really inquiring about the viability of democracy itself."<br>
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O meu número em Luanda: (+244) 936144613<br>
My number in Luanda: (+244) 936144613<br>
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