<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear All, <br></div><br></div>As a new member of IGC, I wanted to express my honor to be a part of this community and I hope to learn too much from all of you. <br>
<br></div>Regarding the discussion topic of IGC's future, I am glad to use this opportunity to share my opinion with a group of intelligent persons at this critical point of Internet Society.<br> In my opinion, IGC as well as many other IG communities is experiencing a critical point which is a reflection of critical situation of Information society on its current process of development and widely expansion. The situation which can be a sort of middle age crisis for internet society as I am going to explain it here. <br>
The Middle-Age Crisis is going to be happened after 3 decades of growth of Internet and its rapid penetrating by various features of cybernetic world in every corner of human life. The great success of technology and human intelligence has created an extensive expectation to finally overcome our historical problems of poverty, unemployment and unbelievable misery in many parts of the world. The great hope for a better future for humankind in a global village as we have talked and heard about during the past decades. <br>
</div> So the development comes to the screen of any global pro-motive programs ( as like as Istanbul event) for creating a new world, in spite of uncertain conditions regarding the human rights and a lot of civil society concerns as like as lazy logistic procedures , privacy issues, digital fraud and so on. <span class="">It shold be warned, that if this uncontrollable expansion and development procedure exceeds the actual capacity of society, it suddenly turns to a danger for mankind and the earth.<br>
At this middle-age,<i> </i>Internet</span> expansive procedure has the potential to destroy our dreams as
well as the potential to survive the earth and its inhabitants. This is exactly where the necessity
of <span class="">Internet</span> Governance discussions comes to be crucial nowadays.<br></div> I shorten the story since all you guys know it better than me and I will go to the point that any further action in IG discussions and plans should respect two essentially programs:<br>
<br></div>1- <b>Social capacity building</b> regarding IG concerns through public medias for public people, who are the basis of the information society. People who should be able to represent themselves through proper channels which is prepared by intelligent people like you, in IGC. <br>
</div>People need to be educated through any extensive program in various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their vulnerability facing with a unilateral development in cybernetic world. People needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be great, if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.<br>
Increasing the number of civil society activists is the golden key in bottom-up dealing with Governments, edge companies and market developers ,etc. <br><br></div><b>2- Customer Protection in Best Practices procedure</b>, <br>
<br> I agree with Mawaki that civil society and IGC is not going to change the network architecture; and also redefinition of networks in the way that JFC is looking for, is not only impossible, but dangerous for daily life of people. <br>
<br> But still civil society should find the best solutions in dealing with big brothers. Customer Protection based on the Human rights, respecting to lingual, cultural, professional, regional and national features of end-users should be respected by all of edge companies, Governments and market developers, etc.<br>
<br> Any individual have right to, and should be able to dominate his/her environment encountering with cyber world according to his personal perspective; and any giant service makers in this space should understand that respecting these individual expectations will increase their market capacity and development goals and so on. This is a sample of best practice in field of customer protection, which I suggest to be followed in future.<br>
<br></div>Regards <br></div>Mehrzad<br><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Mawaki Chango <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com" target="_blank">kichango@gmail.com</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">Dear Members,<div><br></div><div>This is an informal inquiry I would like to launch to hear from IGC members or list subscribers and collect your ideas about where we should go from here, as the Internet Governance Caucus. </div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Particularly, please share your thoughts as to whether, in this context of IG or Information Society more broadly, civil society </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">needs an analogue to what ICC BASIS (</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/basis/" target="_blank">http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/basis/</a>) </font><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">is doing for business, and if so, </span><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">what this would need to be like.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thanks for your cooperation.</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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