<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>The language has to be specific especially if using terms repurposed from economics. Global commons isn't always common good, just for instance.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 14-Apr-2014, at 22:55, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">This petition has just been published on another list. The members of the IGC should have the opportunity to be aware of it.<div>Deirdre<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">michael gurstein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 14 April 2014 12:18<br><br>
After some discussion with colleagues of the JNC and elsewhere I've launched an initiative/petition intended to impact on the outcome of the NetMundial meeting. I think the best possible achievable outcome of the NetMundial meeting would be an affirmation/reaffirmation of the "Internet as a Global Commons Operating in the Global Public Interest" and the petition is intended to provide an opportunity for voices globally to insist that that at least be placed on the table in Sao Paolo.<br>
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The petition is available for signing at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nawk9ak" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/nawk9ak</a><br>
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The blogpost introducing and giving the longer rationale for the petition can be found at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/opqwhs4" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/opqwhs4</a><br>
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It would be really great if you could spread this information through your networks and invite your networks to sign on to the petition or to send notes directly to the NetMundial secretariat <a href="mailto:secretariat@netmundial.br">secretariat@netmundial.br</a> with a copy to me at <a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a><br>
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M<br>
<br></div>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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