<div dir="ltr">For me this has become the year when the issue of "veneered participation" (see Richard Heeks' 1999 paper <a href="http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/wp/di/documents/di_wp04.pdf">http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/wp/di/documents/di_wp04.pdf</a> ) has loomed particularly large. The offer of and insistence on "participation" sounds more and more like the "bread and circuses" to keep the masses happy. For this reason I belong to the cautious wait and see group. Such a short time ago we learned that we have been comprehensively betrayed. Isn't caution one of the lessons of betrayal?<div>
Hoping that everyone within reach of the cyclone in India is safe.<br><div>Deirdre</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 October 2013 06:08, Anja Kovacs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anja@internetdemocracy.in" target="_blank">anja@internetdemocracy.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>It seems that some or not quite as convinced as Norbert is that it does anymore:<br><br><a href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/08/31/icanns-accountability-meltdown-a-four-part-series/" target="_blank">http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/08/31/icanns-accountability-meltdown-a-four-part-series/</a><br>
<br></div>Which explains the discomfort of some on the list with a letter being sent out before more details are available (though the lack of detail is not a concern to me).<br><br></div>Thanks to friends who are active in ICANN for drawing my attention to this growing concern.<br>
<br>Best,<br>Anja<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br>Dr. Anja Kovacs<br>The Internet Democracy Project<br><br><a href="tel:%2B91%209899028053" value="+919899028053" target="_blank">+91 9899028053</a> | @anjakovacs<br>
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