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Of the eight new members 6 are from telecoms and related companies. And
of course the commission itself is headed by a telecom moghul who owns
most of </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">the telecom
infrastructure</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">a of a
large developing country. So telecom companies will now give us our
telecom policies! But who are we, of the IG civil society, to protest.
We have always allowed global companies to lead </font>pol<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">icy shaping and making in the
Internet space, we only want to somehow keep governments out.<br>
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In US, we allowed google to lead the net neutrality movement and then
one day when they made a business interest based compromise with the
telecoms and together presented the NN policy draft to the government,
which it took on as the policy framework, civil society was left
looking hapless and stupid. But we have hardly learnt our lessons.<br>
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Right now, in the IGF MAG, the 'global policy dialogue' on 'security,
privacy and openness' is being shaped by a WG led by Verizon, that on
CIRs by another US corporation, and on access and diversity by
International Chamber of Commerce. At the other end of the IG specturm,
in the IETF too, more and more, technical standards are largely shaped
by staffers of tech corporates, in the name of open MS processes.<br>
<br>
Many people take IG's multistakeholderism, as it is practised, to be
but a trojan horse for mega corporates to enter and dominate policy
spaces, and their perception may not be entirely misplaced. Civil
society needs to do more to dispel this impression, but sadly it
doesnt...<br>
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On Tuesday 03 April 2012 01:04 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:
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cite="mid:1049948844.96072.1333438458935.JavaMail.www@wwinf1d17"
type="cite">Thanks Wolfgang for this info<br>
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As you can see this is a very "balanced" list :-))<br>
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This BBC is a scandal since its debut ! Co-opted members, two
questionable vice-chairmen, unilateral annnouncement of its creation by
the two vice-presidents, Mrs Bukova and Hamadoun Touré, and obscure
activities. All this under the umbrella of the multistakeholder banner
of the WSIS ! A farce at best ! But for me a provocation, and what's
more an insult for the real civil society, instigated by the ITU. <br>
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I do hope there will be some reaction from our CS groups -not only from
CSDPTT!- to such a ridiculization of MSH and CS during the next WSIS
Forum. <br>
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Best greetings<br>
Jean-Louis Fullsack<br>
CSDPTT<br>
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