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At 16:42 07/05/2015, parminder wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="Verdana">Seems
interesting. But what I am interested in first, is in dissecting the
financing of the internet freedom activists. Does someone knows something
trustable to read in that area?<br><br>
When there is a meeting somewhere in the world, how civil society members
happen to be there? Who does actually pull the string wallets and wallet
strings? Who does foot the civil society bill?<br><br>
Just to know how politically (un)correct should my association be to
qualify? And where to apply?</font></blockquote><br>
<font face="Verdana">Yes, JFC, this is perhaps the single most important
issue - to try to understand and perhaps apply corrective pressures on
the current </font>IG related civil society (CS) configuration... But
unfortunately the involved CS is unable to build any kind of consensus on
this all important issue, or to act on it... It is so surprising that a
sector whose raison d'etre is to seek accountability from all those who
are powerful itself refuses to to be held accountable. In fact, raising
this issue in these civil society groups has attracted most vile
responses, as for instance Norbert faced a year or two
back.</blockquote><br>
The issue as I see it is as follows:<br><br>
- Multistakeholderism will be with us by dominance decision. This
dominance will include the masters of the "Internet Global
Community". Read it: an RFC 6852 group ICANN, Davos, IETF, ISOC,
RIRs, with NTIA as a watch dog, and FCC as legal liaison with Congres
Lobbies, where the public will be consulted as it is by ICANN today:
comments on leaders' decision sites, drinks in NETmundial cocktails
around the world, social engineering by press releases, CS Buzz on a few
sponsorded activists lists where a mere hundred of people will casually
discuss digital human cyber rights in a numeric world virtual acosystem
where Govs and ITU are the evil.<br><br>
- the NSA-compatible Unicode limited technology will continue to help
Google, Apple, FaceBook, Microsoft, etc. to control and collect mentally
formated e-purses round the world.<br><br>
- Until a Xerox/NSA-accepted NDN Hollywood technology helps securing the
DRMs and call on the USCC to hunt the Chinese hackers and the vilain
Pirates.<br><br>
I do not want to belong to this context. So, I frankly do not give a damn
about vile responses (sorry I do not recall about the Norbert's
suffering, but I experienced something interesting when the IESG
***voted*** ("we hate kings, votes ...") me out the IETF for
having obtained (by multiple consensusses ... against what I asked) a
less bad RFC 4444 for cultures than the one the business/political
Unicode consortium wanted to impose on them as a market.<br><br>
So, I suppose there are enough people throughout the world being fed-up
with the multistakeholderist promises above, to say "I do co-create
a LIBRE civil transparency registry where evey organization, including
single manned initiative and mailing lists, can register, document their
funding, document their history, tell about their followers, get
commented, and obtain trust and alliance-meshing from this. This will be
transparent "omnistakeholderism" among those who want to be CS
lead users.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">My organisation has proposed to
some key players to set up a online register of some kind for CS
players in the IG space, on the lines of EU Transparency Register
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do">
http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do</a> . But our
discussions went nowhere.<br><br>
Once, again, I appeal to key CS groups involved here to join
efforts to develop such an online register. If it is needed for corporate
lobbyists, it is today needed much more for CS groups as well. <b><i>My
organisation is happy to take a lead to be the initial point of contact
for those interested to develop such an initiative. Once there is an
initial mass of groups/ individuals they can together choose an
appropriate governance structure for the initiative.
</i></b></blockquote><br>
I suggest <br>
1) the governance to be as mechanic as possible to be neutral - and the
registry mecanism to be copied in OpenSource and given to other
CivilSociety areas of interests.<br>
2) a "meme bank" to be attached. Where organizations and people
might drop memes on what they support/proposes/suggest. We are not
interested in votes, but in good suggestions being available to
everyone.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">So many IG documents to day
speak of transparency among stakeholder groups, but little is done in
practice (including the CSTD working group on IGF improvement, and the
much celebrated Net Mundial document). CS must of course take the lead,
and the conscience keeper of governance processes.</blockquote><br>
Amen.<br>
jfc<br><br>
<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">parminder <br><br>
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jfc</font></blockquote><br>
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