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On Wednesday 25 April 2012 03:05 PM, parminder wrote:
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In general, as you know, I am quite against policy dialogue forums
(which I understand this meeting is supposed to be, taking from the UN
IGF) being organised primarily by the business sector, especially when
such a forum claims a monopoly and therefore authoritative position,
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I am sure that many of you
will know of the famous words of Adam Smith, the father of free market
thinking, about the relationship between business and p</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">olicy making. In any case, I will
forward them since they seem so germane to the larger issue of my email.</font><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">(Personally, I would not</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> have</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> been able to use the kind of
strong words that Adam Smith uses, but he is an acknowledged master and
who am I to stand between his words and you :) )<br>
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Quoting Adam Smith<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">People of the same trade
seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the
conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some
contrivance to raise prices…. But though the law cannot hinder
people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought
to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less to render them
necessary. (Adam Smith)<br>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Another one, <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font size="4"
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">To widen the market and to
narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers…The
proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from
this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and
ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully
examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most
suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest
is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally
an interest to deceive and even oppress the public, and who
accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed
it. (Adam Smith)</font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">which is implied in the name of
'the' 'Asia Pacific regional IGF'. <br>
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Mine is a somewhat unpleasant task of raising what may appear to be
difficult question with regard to sincere and hard work being put in by
people like you and Peng Hwa, both of whom I greatly respect. But all
of us, most of all civil society, must be subject to accountability and
to hard questions when required. So, my apologies for that. However, I
do request an open discussion on the subject here in the IGC.<br>
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I do not think that you would much look forward to a time when the
policies that determine what education our children will have, and how,
will be determined by processes led by private companies in the
business of digital content, educational software etc. Do you? Or, to a
time when our health policies will be determined by processes led by
big pharma companies and private hospital chains. However, what is
being done in Internet governance today is precisely and inescapably
leading us towards such a model of governance and policy making. To
that extent, we will have to take responsibility for our actions. I am
merely trying to take responsibility for mine in raising these
questions at this time. And I look forward to your responses. Apologies
once again if this is inconvenient and/ or an incursion on your busy
time.<br>
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regards, parminder <br>
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On Friday 13 April 2012 06:51 PM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
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cite="mid:CA+YNoKiSfu=wUh_X301n_WhoahxyOY467Xu89k9wLKyc3N61pg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Dear list,
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Asia Pacific regional IGF, APrIGF, 2012 will be held in Tokyo, July 18
- 20.
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<div>The program committee is being organized and just starting its
work.</div>
<div>We have not yet made the web-site for this year, but should be
soon prepared.</div>
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<div>If you are interested in participating in the organizing work
or
any other<span></span></div>
<div>Information, please contact me or Prof. Ang Peng Hwa, cced
here.</div>
To contact the local organizer, the secretariat, Japan Internet
Asociation,<br>
<div>JAIPA, please contact Mr. Toshiaki Tateishi, also cced here.</div>
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<div>Izumi</div>
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>> Izumi Aizu <<<br>
Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo<br>
Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita, <br>
Japan<br>
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