<font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Robert Guerra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rguerra@privaterra.org" target="_blank">rguerra@privaterra.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">- Parminder, in your article you mention that you have the support of civil society. Just blasting your views everywhere has the media thinking all of civil society agrees with your views. There is , well, considerable disagreement with many of your points. Please recognize that and recognize that and stop insinuating that you have a broad level of support. </blockquote>
<div><br><br>Parminder seems to have given the impression to The Hindu that he is an Authority on the subject of Internet Governance as "<i>He has been a special adviser to the Chair of U.N. Internet
Governance Forum and has been coordinator of the premier global civil
society network in the internet governance arena, the Internet
Governance Caucus. He has worked extensively on development issues with
respect to global Internet governance"<br><br></i>And a claim that he has the support of Civil Society would have an effect on the unsuspecting reader that the Civil Society is of the same opinion. At least the Government of India would think so. <br>
<br>My comments as an individual on the article at page <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3426292.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3426292.ece</a> is as below:<br><p>Internet Governance is being discussed in a multi-stakeholder
framework, a framework where Business, Governments, Civil Society,
International Organizations and the Academic Community is seated
equally. This is the 6th year of the Internet Governance Forum as the
multi-stakeholder forum.
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<br>The author champions the idea of a multi-lateral framework of
Governments deciding on how the user will use the Internet and how the
Governments would control it, largely in exclusion of Business and other
stakeholders. This idea is wrapped up as a proposal to "democratize"
the "US controlled" Internet Governance presently "subject to" the
"policies of rich country clubs", an incediary argument with a ploy to
transfer the technical and policy funcitons of the Internet to the
International Telecommunications Union which would then control the
Internet in the UN environment and thereby have total and complete
control of all communications.<b> Parminder works for IT for Change which
appears to lead an "ITU for Change" campaign.</b></p>
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Sivasubramanian M
</div> Posted on: May 17, 2012 at 20:13 IST
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