<div>Dear All,</div><div>This is coming very late, but -</div><div>Reading the list that Jeremy sent made me wonder again about the separation between Freedom of [government] Information and Access to Knowledge. Part of the issue is the wording. Tomorrow I will be attending a validation exercise on the amendments proposed for Saint Lucia's Freedom of Information Act, where freedom of information seems to equate with access to knowledge, but access to a restricted range of knowledge.</div>
<div>I often find it helpful to try to look at issues from a different angle - what if "information" and "knowledge" were conflated, and a set of provisions suggested to regulate the negotiations between the "general public" and the "owners" of the information/knowledge?</div>
<div>I felt that Jeremy's list tends towards my "what if" proposal above.</div><div>Does anyone have ideas about this? </div><div>Deirdre<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 July 2011 04:14, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org" target="_blank">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 22/07/11 15:49, Norbert Bollow wrote:<br>
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<pre>In my view, it's clearly a governance issue to either decide that no
action should be taken to protect people from this kind of risks, or
to decide and implement measures to protect users of services like
Google's from this kind of loss of their valuable personal data and
online identity.
If you don't classify this as "an internet governance issue", what
kind of governance issue is it then?
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For example, Consumers International is proposing that this sort of
issue be the subject of an international guideline on consumer
protection law:<br>
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<a href="http://a2knetwork.org/guidelines/access-to-knowledge/#21" target="_blank">http://a2knetwork.org/guidelines/access-to-knowledge/#21</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979<br>
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