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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:50 PM,
Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The United States and Japan held the fourth
Director General-level meeting of the U.S.-Japan Policy
Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy in Washington, D.C.<br>
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From the agreement text:<br>
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<blockquote> Encouraging other countries to develop principles
consistent with the “United States-Japan Trade Principles for
Information and Communication Technology Services.<br>
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SNIP<br>
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<blockquote>........For these reasons, industry representatives
suggested the following activities:
<p>· U.S-Japan collaboration for establishing an international
framework to support cloud computing.</p>
<p>· Promoting the use of cloud computing in developing countries
and reducing the digital divide.</p>
<p>· Considering a range of policy issues, including: privacy,
cloud computing security, digital content, interoperability, and
portability.</p>
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So rich countries merely go along developing 'global' principles for
the Internet, and to 'encourage' other countries to follow / adopt
them. Industry reps too want them to develop '<i><b>international </b></i>framework
to support cloud computing', to promote use of cloud computing in
developing countries, and to consider a range of policy issues....<br>
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And when proposals like UN CIRP are made with a view to address
these global Internet policy issues at globally democratic spaces,
not only these developed countries, most hypocritically, cry foul,
so does the industry (here seen actively encouraging developed
countries to do exactly the same kind of work), and also, most
disappointingly, the so called global IG civil society.<br>
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Perhaps it is time the global IG civil society stop being the B team
of developed countries' political and economic interests and really
take up the interests of the more marginalised that it is supposed
to represent. They need to develop an independent global IG agenda
to be championed by the civil society, which looks like something
worth championing by civil society. <br>
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Does anyone here have answers why they remain silent with regard to
the active work of rich countries to develop 'global' Internet
policy principles, and react so rabidly to any effort at
democratising global Internet policy making. Fine if they dont like
the CIRP proposal, come up with something else. But the complicit
silence is deafening. <br>
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parminder <br>
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