<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Norbert for your support<br><br></div>Mehrzad<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Norbert Bollow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Good thoughts here, thanks.<br>
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Greetings,<br>
Norbert<br>
<br>
Am Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:57:51 +0430<br>
schrieb Mehrzad Azghandi <<a href="mailto:mehrzad.azghandi@gmail.com">mehrzad.azghandi@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
> Dear All,<br>
><br>
> As a new member of IGC, I wanted to express my honor to be a part of<br>
> this community and I hope to learn too much from all of you.<br>
><br>
> Regarding the discussion topic of IGC's future, I am glad to use this<br>
> opportunity to share my opinion with a group of intelligent persons<br>
> at this critical point of Internet Society.<br>
> In my opinion, IGC as well as many other IG communities is<br>
> experiencing a critical point which is a reflection of critical<br>
> situation of Information society on its current process of<br>
> development and widely expansion. The situation which can be a sort<br>
> of middle age crisis for internet society as I am going to explain it<br>
> here. The Middle-Age Crisis is going to be happened after 3 decades<br>
> of growth of Internet and its rapid penetrating by various features<br>
> of cybernetic world in every corner of human life. The great success<br>
> of technology and human intelligence has created an extensive<br>
> expectation to finally overcome our historical problems of poverty,<br>
> unemployment and unbelievable misery in many parts of the world. The<br>
> great hope for a better future for humankind in a global village as<br>
> we have talked and heard about during the past decades.<br>
> So the development comes to the screen of any global pro-motive<br>
> programs ( as like as Istanbul event) for creating a new world, in<br>
> spite of uncertain conditions regarding the human rights and a lot of<br>
> civil society concerns as like as lazy logistic procedures , privacy<br>
> issues, digital fraud and so on. It shold be warned, that if this<br>
> uncontrollable expansion and development procedure exceeds the actual<br>
> capacity of society, it suddenly turns to a danger for mankind and<br>
> the earth. At this middle-age, Internet expansive procedure has the<br>
> potential to destroy our dreams as well as the potential to survive<br>
> the earth and its inhabitants. This is exactly where the necessity<br>
> of Internet Governance discussions comes to be crucial nowadays.<br>
> I shorten the story since all you guys know it better than me and I<br>
> will go to the point that any further action in IG discussions and<br>
> plans should respect two essentially programs:<br>
><br>
</div></div>> 1- *Social capacity building* regarding IG concerns through public<br>
<div class="">> medias for public people, who are the basis of the information<br>
> society. People who should be able to represent themselves through<br>
> proper channels which is prepared by intelligent people like you, in<br>
> IGC. People need to be educated through any extensive program in<br>
> various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their vulnerability<br>
> facing with a unilateral development in cybernetic world. People<br>
> needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of<br>
> governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be<br>
> 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<br>
> bottom-up dealing with Governments, edge companies and market<br>
> developers ,etc.<br>
><br>
</div>> *2- Customer Protection in Best Practices procedure*,<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">><br>
> I agree with Mawaki that civil society and IGC is not going to<br>
> change the network architecture; and also redefinition of networks in<br>
> the way that JFC is looking for, is not only impossible, but<br>
> dangerous for daily life of people.<br>
><br>
> But still civil society should find the best solutions in dealing<br>
> with big brothers. Customer Protection based on the Human rights,<br>
> respecting to lingual, cultural, professional, regional and national<br>
> features of end-users should be respected by all of edge companies,<br>
> Governments and market developers, etc.<br>
><br>
> Any individual have right to, and should be able to dominate his/her<br>
> environment encountering with cyber world according to his personal<br>
> perspective; and any giant service makers in this space should<br>
> understand that respecting these individual expectations will<br>
> increase their market capacity and development goals and so on. This<br>
> is a sample of best practice in field of customer protection, which<br>
> I suggest to be followed in future.<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
> Mehrzad<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Dear Members,<br>
> ><br>
> > This is an informal inquiry I would like to launch to hear from IGC<br>
> > members or list subscribers and collect your ideas about where we<br>
> > should go from here, as the Internet Governance Caucus.<br>
> ><br>
> > Particularly, please share your thoughts as to whether, in this<br>
> > context of IG or Information Society more broadly, civil society<br>
> > needs an analogue to what ICC BASIS<br>
> > (<a href="http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/basis/" target="_blank">http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/basis/</a>) is doing<br>
> > for business, and if so, what this would need to be like.<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks for your cooperation.<br>
> ><br>
> > Mawaki<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><i style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" size="4">Mehrzad Azghandi</font></i><br>
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