<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all, especially Dierdre<br><br></div>As always, when I get an invitation to speak at an instance that is representative of any group, I will inform that group and seek "issues" that I must not miss. I got input from many of us, across many lists and I did my best to distill all of the points into 3-4 that can capture the essence.<br><br></div>There is only so much that can be said in 5-7 minutes. So I elected to keep to the three major thoughts of access, freedom and mass surveillance.<br><br></div>I have learned that writing the key points helps someone keep focused, in comparison with scribbling on paper and coming to "make a few comments". I dont think there was a huge departure from general CS issues on the speech. Granted, not every thing could be covered and not all countries that needed to be named and shamed can fit into a 5-minute speech.<br><br></div>I am convinced, however, that the "All of the people, all of the Internet, all of the time" message was clear and was delivered.<br><br></div>Having said the above, I noted that "zero-rated" services may not have gone well with some and someone had "respectfully disagreed".<br></div>I did retweet that and maybe that is where I see us taking the discussion forward. Mark Zuckerberg has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102033678947881">published a blog post</a> on this, and linked it, interestingly with net neutrality.<br><br></div>My personal opinion, which is what I stated, is that zero-rated services are not "sustainable access". <br><br></div>Will be good to hear what others think, especially people who live and work in places where affordable access is still a huge challenge.<br><br></div>All for now<br><br></div>Nnenna<br><br></div>PS/ As for critical or uncritical praise. It does not apply to me, personally. As I never see speeches as mine. I only distill issues that are common and I present them with a passion. So praise is not mine, but to all who contributed. And I can tell you, there are many.<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<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"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Very nicely put, Dierdre. Your origin myth is not so mythological, and conforms to what many of us involved in the
early days of WSIS civil society had in mind. However, IGC was not conjoint with WSIS CS, it was formed to provide of “</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black">a “civil society” space for objective discussion and negotiation of”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">But we should not be “uncritical” with our praise. </span></font>It would be good to see
some constructive discussion of what she had to say.<u></u><u></u></p>
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