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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Dear
Mueller</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
Your comment would need to be answered in a more comprehensive way,
although I don't have to defend the use of multilateral expression or
of multilateralism because the Itamaraty (The Foreign Ministry) has
already done since the Second World War.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
In international diplomacy the term multilateral means much more than
"one country one vote", the term multilateral means
“several or many sides involved”.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
Multilateral is not the same as undemocratic, undemocratic is the
<font style="font-size:10pt">UNILATERALISM</font> and the
loss of diplomacy as a primacy of policy.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
The ideology of the unilateralism has worked against the
multilateralism, as condition of legitimate social representation,
and has destroyed the diplomatic representation of the nation-states.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
Although I do not have the desire to make any clarification or
etymological essentialist about the origin of the terms stakeholder
(see the stakeholder theory in Edward Freeman) and multi-stakeholder,
these terms do not mean a representation of plural civil society and
more votes, but a representation of interested parties (corporations,
businesses, military sectors).</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
Therefore, from a methodological point of view and operational
multistakeholdism is not diversity representative, it is the field of
inertia representative of hegemonic unilateralism, articulated with
the private sectors and military that perpetuate the status quo.
Multistakeholdism is a disguised form of corporate unilateralism, the
primacy of the discourse of a single State (or an empire) on the
other nation-states.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
For understanding of these strategies, we must also know how and when
the plural "stakeholders" is no longer used and had been
replaced by neologism multi-stakeholder to transform into a new
mimesis of unilateralism in the new field ideological and
“diplomatic”. (See: Pires, 2014 -
<a href="http://www.ub.edu/geocrit//sn/sn-493/493-53.pdf">http://www.ub.edu/geocrit//sn/sn-493/493-53.pdf</a>
)</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
The organizers of the event NetMundial translated erroneously the
word of English "multi-stakeholder" as multisectoral.
Perhaps by an ideological and non-linguistic issue because the
translation of the word for the Portuguese language should be
"multiple Interested parties", that does not imply sectors
of society, but only corporate interests.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
Here in Brazil, the word "multisectoral" was originally
introduced in the early 1990s, and means plurality of sectors engaged
in defending the cause environmentalist and was also used in
reference to the different currents of environmentalism at the
conference Eco-92. Therefore, this concept does not apply to this new
context in which there are no sectors dialoguing and deciding on
proposals.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
In NetMundial, representatives of countries, such as Cuba and Russia,
who managed to submit their proposals, were only ears, since there
was no vote in the plenary session and the final document, according
to allegations, was already prepared before the meeting here in
Brazil, sponsored by ICANN. But, with respect to these countries,
Brazilian diplomacy is against the economic embargo of Cuba and
Russia.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
Your assertion that I "join Russia and Cuba in dissent against
the Netmundial meeting” is not true because I even conversed
informally with the representatives of these countries and also, as
the other participants, I could not vote in favor of or against their
proposals. Perhaps there was a flaw in the surveillance of
participants with respect to their dialogs with other participants.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
In NetMundial, in the Space of Dialog, sponsored by São Paulo
Municipality, on the day of the debate on “Sovereignty and digital
surveillance in the internet age", which was attended by: the
journalist Natalia Viana, Neville Roy Singham, Jacob Appelbaum and
Julian Assange (online Chat), I was there, as an observer,
representing the International Network of GeoCrítica, at this single
event that dealt with this topic (mass surveillance). However, the
discussions of the forums of this area was not included on the
official document.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
The questions that we should ask are:</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
When "networks" supersede the nation-states, in a Post-Westphalian
neo-liberal conception?</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
When the warfare state will no longer recognize the cyberspace as the
fifth area of control and power?</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US">
The mass surveillance and the installation of state of exception are
ideological strategics to the permanence of current unilateralism.</p>
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If we look at how this ideology is forming his followers in all
countries, offering top-down, courses, scholarships and funding for
people who advocate this ideas, it is clear that are not sectors of
civil society who are advocates the “multistakeholdism”.</p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-24 2:37 GMT-02:00 Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">This is the kind of drivel that is more likely to make people support NMI than oppose it.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Another clarification with regard to Internet governance is needed for the period in which Lula presided Brazil, there was a Brazilian multilateral diplomatic position, which did not accept the Icann
<i>multistakeholdism</i>.<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM: Yes, they were locked in the mentality of the past. They did not understand the Internet and the more distributed governance
models emerging globally.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">It must be said that President Dilma Rousseffi, the opening of the 68th General Assembly of the United Nations on 24 September 2013, held in the Brazilian diplomatic tradition one multilateralist discourse,
which advocated a democratic governance, multilateral and open. What <span style="color:#1f497d">
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM: “multilateral” meaning, “one country one vote,” which is of course extremely undemocratic. Because it means not only that all
the diversity within each nation-state is unrepresented, but also that undemocratic states have as much voting power as democratic ones. No thank you!<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">happened was a maneuver performed by the CGI-Br members to break the diplomatic tradition of Brazil and make a meeting coordinated by ICANN and I * that began to adopt
<i>multistakeholdist</i> ideology in the Sao Paulo meeting, the NetMundial. <span style="color:#1f497d">
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM: Yes, Brazil’s government seemed to (wisely) move toward acceptance of a multi-stakeholder approach. To dismiss this as a “maneuver”
by CGI.br (I guess they are not true Brazilians) seems to be a denial of reality. Or are you asserting that President Rousseff walked into the meeting completely ignorant of what was going on? But OK, duly noted: Mr. Pires joins Russia and Cuba in dissent
against the Netmundial meeting.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The meeting failed when not discussed the policies to fight the mass surveillance carried out by the US, when not produced a single line on the asymmetric model for the roots server system, when not opted to
set a clear policy favorable to net neutrality.<u></u><u></u></p>
</span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM: I was there, and recall many discussions of mass surveillance. And the attacks on the unilateral approach to the DNS were mooted
by the NTIA announcement that they would end it. There were no discussions of how to end it, but if you were paying attention there were many discussions of what should replace it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">To overcome the <i>multistakeholdist</i> ideology of NetMundial Iniciative, civil society organizations (as JNC), social movements in networks and public and private actors need to engage in fights and discussions
to build a new model of IG, which guarantee: a) a worldwide organization for Internet, that really represents the interests of all nation states
<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM: Wonderful. So it is not the people we want to represent, or even Internet users and suppliers, but “nation-states?”
<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">and to ensure net neutrality and respect the Internet as a common good; b) a worldwide Internet statement that has as principle the protection of privacy, freedom of expression and to promote free and universal
access to the Internet and free software; c) a court with international <span style="color:#1f497d">
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</span><p style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">MM: …because, as we know, nation-states are so devoted to freedom of expression, privacy and free software!
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Hindenburgo Francisco Pires<br><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-style:italic"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-style:italic">Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-style:italic">Departamento de Geografia Humana</span></div></div><div><div><i>Sítio-web: <a href="http://www.cibergeo.org" target="_blank">http://www.cibergeo.org</a></i><br></div></div></div></div>
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