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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>parminder <<a href="parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, parminder <<a href="parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:15:55 +0530<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks<BR>
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I and my organization will support the statement. We need to use the Wikileak affair to jolt ourselves out of complacency, and the vain techno-fascinated hope that the myriad global internet issues will resolve by themselves, which is what has landed us in the jungle law mess (apologies to the feelings of Ian about nature, jungles and human beings :)) where power is exercised in illegal means used in wikileaks affair, and not, to the extent it is required to be used, in a sound politically legitimate manner. <BR>
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The statement is well written. Jeremy, can you post the text as it stands on the list. Some of these online means may be more efficient, and we shd use them by and by, but I understand that some people here still, by habit, would like to see the texts of proposed statements in this elist. And also an open discussion, suggestions for changes etc is very useful (the process of public reasoning) as against private changes to the texts in an online space. (We need to use a mix of two, but that for later).<BR>
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While I will like the full statement to be used, it is also possible that David uses a smaller version. Something like (i am sure the following could be improved a lot)<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#333333">"The recent WikiLeaks affairs have starkly brought out how global Internet cannot, and should not, be governed through illegitimate use of political and commercial power. There are two clear problems with this approach of using backroom governance tactics. One, they is always likely to be abused, as in our view, they got hugely abused in the Wikileaks case. Second, in possible cases where it may legitimately be required to employ some urgent global governance responses to real problems or threats (or perhaps even opportunities), which cannot completely be assumed away, backroom levels of power based on raw political and commerical might, as employed by some governments and their corporate cronies in the present case, are not available to less powerful political players or countries. This situation bespeaks a democratic deficit and a need for globally democratic principles and institutional frameworks in the area of Internet governance, which is the urgent challenge that the proposed process of enhanced cooperation should address itself to. "<BR>
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Jeremy Malcolm wrote: <BR>
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On 11/12/2010, at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<BR>
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Those who haven't commented on the Wikileaks statement yet but plan to, please visit <a href="http://igf-online.net/digress.it/">http://igf-online.net/digress.it/</a> latest today or tomorrow. David Allen is copying some materials to take to the Enhanced Cooperation consultation and will need this ready by Monday morning.<BR>
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Check back again now and you'll see revision marks for the changes I've made in response to the comments so far. Of course, some of the comments are mutually contradictory so I haven't been able to incorporate all of them. Final comments can be made within the next 24 hours. Because we won't however have time for a formal consensus call on this before David needs it, I feel that we cannot call it a consensus statement, so I propose just putting my own name to it as IGC co-coordinator.<BR>
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