[bestbits] Nnenna to Keynote at Netmundial - Civil Society major issues

Tue Apr 15 09:20:38 EDT 2014

On Tuesday 15 April 2014 06:24 PM, parminder wrote:
> SNIP
>
> And what happened to other suggestions form HLC members who are to big 
> business or the US gov...
>
> Argentinian government and Indian government (and in a way also the 
> European Commission) had asked for the insertion of the term 
> 'democratic' in different places where the characteristics of Internet 
> governance were listed.... But, no, that demand was not accepted...
>
> There is no place for democracy and democratic in the land of 
> multistakeholderism, fronting or big business interests, as the 
> changes in the document clearly show.

And it is not just these two governments. President Rousseff in her 
famed UN speech has directly linked the privacy issue to democracy... To 
quote

"In the absence of the right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of 
expression and opinion, and therefore no effective democracy. " That to 
her was the biggest point of Snowden revelations which set in motion a 
process that let to the Brazil meeting.

But strangely, Brazilians seem to have handed over this meeting to the 
staus quoists...  and democracy is simply not a favoured word with them..

Welcome to the brave new post-democratic world... the NetMundial doc as 
it stands is positioned to become a key milestone, even a trail blazer, 
towards a post-democratic global governance, from where it will trickle 
down to national levels. The neoliberal ideology is making really big 
strides and rapid gains....

parminder

>
> BTW, India in its comments on the document (as per the leaked 
> documents) seem to have also asked for a recognition of the Internet 
> as a global commons... but of course no... what are you talking about!
>
> What are you asking the people of the world to do with this 
> document... To endorse it and celebrate it just becuase in about 500 
> places it says multi-stakeholder....
>
> parminder
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 April 2014 05:19 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>> Carol, it was not "taken out" of the document. It is there, in detail,
>> please re-read.
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> On 04/15/2014 08:10 AM, Carolina wrote:
>>> Pls, mention net neutrality which was taken out of the document put out
>>> for comments yesterday. More later. Should we consolidate all in a pad
>>> to help Nnenna?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Apr 15, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Marianne Franklin <m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:m.i.franklin at gold.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> +1 from me re. Nnenna's role, and +1 from me re. Anriette's points below.
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>> MF
>>>>
>>>> On 15/04/2014 19:44, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
>>>>> Congrats Nnenna!
>>>>>
>>>>> Put on one of your fabulous outfits, and then remind them, that
>>>>> working inclusively and respectfully with all stakeholder groups,
>>>>> particularly those that lack power and influence - i.e. civil society
>>>>> - is very different from putting on a colourful West African outfit
>>>>> :) It takes hard work, change in behaviour, change in structures and
>>>>> procedures, consultation, respect, trust, debate, and struggle,
>>>>> because do not always agree. It also requires a common framework of
>>>>> principles that defines what the public interest is in internet
>>>>> governance that can be used to promote and protect this public
>>>>> interest across the internet governance ecosystem and it is this
>>>>> framework that we trust the NetMundial can get us closer to.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could also mention surveillance, with particularly - but not only
>>>>> - mass surveillance demonstrating how easy it is to destroy trust,
>>>>> and to deny accountability. And, is there any tougher test for
>>>>> multi-stakeholder internet governance? I think it would be good to
>>>>> get the message accross that the IANA transition is not the only
>>>>> issue that NetMundial should be discussing, but at the same time, it
>>>>> is a key opportunity to come up with solutions and approaches that
>>>>> are not simply cosmetic.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anriette
>>>>>
>>>>> On 15/04/2014 09:23, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>>>>>> + 1
>>>>>> jeanette
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 15.04.14 08:38, schrieb Ian Peter:
>>>>>>> Congratulations Nnenna – great choice!
>>>>>>> *From:* Nnenna Nwakanma<mailto:nnenna75 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2014 4:35 PM
>>>>>>> *To:* Governance<mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org>  ;
>>>>>>> mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
>>>>>>> *Subject:* [bestbits] Nnenna to Keynote at Netmundial - Civil Society
>>>>>>> major issues
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got a message this morning from NetMundial Chair, Virgilo,
>>>>>>> inviting me
>>>>>>> to speak at the Opening Ceremony of Netmundial (meaning I have to pack
>>>>>>> one of those African dresses) for some 8 minutes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have replied to say "I will be speaking from the Civil Society
>>>>>>> perspective, which is my Stakeholder Group".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is a Web Foundation media team that will help me put my ideas
>>>>>>> into
>>>>>>> place, but I cannot not request input from here, so that no major
>>>>>>> issues
>>>>>>> will be overlooked.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I travel Thursday evening thru Friday, so the earliest I can share a
>>>>>>> draft/keypoints will be Monday.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hope we can pull this off well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All for now
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nnenna
>>>>>>>
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>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> anriette esterhuysenanriette at apc.org
>>>>> executive director, association for progressive communications
>>>>> www.apc.org
>>>>> po box 29755, melville 2109
>>>>> south africa
>>>>> tel/fax +27 11 726 1692
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dr Marianne Franklin
>>>> Professor of Global Media and Politics
>>>> Convener: Global Media & Transnational Communications Program
>>>> Goldsmiths (University of London)
>>>> Department of Media & Communications
>>>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
>>>> Tel: +44 20 7919 7072
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>>>> https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-global-media-transnational-communications/
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>>>> www.internetrightsandprinciples.org
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