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Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
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Hi Parminder<br>
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I have read and hear your opinions several times. I also mentioned that
I do not give support to any inter-gov. organization since results can
be for the good and for the bad. I prefer to take a more reactive
approach, see what is going to happen. In any case, the deadline is
short and I cant run this through my organization for a discussion
before your deadline. So I do not have an institutional position on
this as of now.<br>
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Sure, Katitza. I expect people and institutions to think their
positions and endorsements through, and am not insisting that they sign
up on the proposed statement or any such thing. Mine are more general
political comments. Exclusion of 70-80 percent of world's population
from plurilateral activities of rich countries is at least as important
as exclusion of CS in any structural format of governance. <br>
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For instance, do you think CS orgs involved with environmental issues
will stop pushing for international agreements on climate change
related steps simply because of the fear that, to quote your words,
there may be 'no certainty about our (CS) involvement in equal footing"<br>
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Or could we stop seeking access to knowledge related agreements under
development agenda in WIPO bec of the same fears, esp when ACTA kind of
things are in the offing.<br>
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What makes IG any different? In politics non-action is also an action,
in favor of some interests or others.<br>
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Which is not to say that we should not seek more participative and open
governance structures for all of the above. <br>
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parminder <br>
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On 12/11/10 11:17 PM, parminder wrote:
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Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
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there, <br>
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In my personal capacity, I have the same concerns that Mc Tim mentioned
here. IGC is moving an agenda where there <br>
is no certainty about our involvement in equal footing. As I mentioned,
since this is quite a short time, and we do not have yet <br>
a position on this issue, I can't endorse that statement. <br>
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Katitza and McTim<br>
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One, IGC's statement clearly asks for any future structure to involve
CS. That is a big part of our main enhanced cooperation statement.
Wikileaks parts just highlights the kind of basic substantive issues
involved here. So, how do you judge that we are 'moving an agenda where
there is no certainty about our involvement in equal footing'.<br>
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Second, OECD/CoE initiatives do not have anything close to involvement
of CS on an equal footing. Worse, the globally non-democratic and
non-inclusive nature of these initiatives makes it rather quite
'certain' that, when the crunch comes, the decisions/outcomes will
favor richer countries and other dominant groups. Is it not obvious. <br>
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I often wonder about the nature of this 'political fiction' of civil
society being by and in itself a political constituency, and the way
propping this fiction has become the main task of many in the IG CS
space. <br>
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I am civil society (as in organized CS) only as a political expedient.
My basic politics is to represent and serve the interests of those
people and groups who I see as structurally and systemically
marginalized in current power equations. parminder <br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4D046E79.4090607@eff.org" type="cite"> It
would be good that you listed the names of those who support it.
Thanks. <br>
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On 12/11/10 10:33 PM, McTim wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Prmndr, Lee, Ian, et. al, <br>
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:45 AM, parminder<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hi Jeremy <br>
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"The recent WikiLeaks affairs have starkly brought out how global
Internet <br>
cannot, and should not, be governed through illegitimate use of
political <br>
and commercial power. There are two clear problems with this approach
of <br>
using backroom governance tactics. One, they is always likely to be
abused, <br>
as in our view, they got hugely abused in the Wikileaks case. Second,
in <br>
possible cases where it may legitimately be required to employ some
urgent <br>
global governance responses to real problems or threats (or perhaps
even <br>
opportunities), which cannot completely be assumed away, backroom
levels of <br>
power based on raw political and commerical might, as employed by some <br>
governments and their corporate cronies in the present case, are not <br>
available to less powerful political players or countries. This
situation <br>
bespeaks a democratic deficit and a need for globally democratic
principles <br>
and institutional frameworks in the area of Internet governance, which
is <br>
the urgent challenge that the proposed process of enhanced cooperation <br>
should address itself to. " <br>
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I have a hypothetical question (that may not be so hypothetical, if <br>
the actions by some re: CSTD are anything to go by). <br>
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If the governemtns of the world decided they would build a "framework" <br>
of some kind re: IG, but shut out all non-governmental actors in its <br>
development, would you all still be in favor of said framework <br>
building? <br>
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