[bestbits] A disaggregated internet governance taxonomy

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Tue Apr 15 12:20:57 EDT 2014


On Tuesday 15 April 2014 09:37 PM, Mike Godwin (mgodwin at INTERNEWS.ORG) 
wrote:
> DeNardis's response to this (she addresses this very question in the 
> talk you can find at the video link below) is to say that there is a 
> public-policy dimension to every level of these functions.

And then the conclusion on how public policies should be decided is 
what? Because in default, public polices are not decided, and that is 
itself a political stance, befitting some and not others.

parminder
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> --Mike
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:46, "parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>>
>> The focus here is of one clear set of functions - public policy 
>> making, that also, specifically decision making vis a vis public 
>> polices...
>>
>> If we need closures somewhere. Power does not disappear in absence of 
>> legitimate governance. The Internet is right now being shaped by the 
>> powerful for their benefit.
>>
>> At one point we need to agree on should be taking decisions for 
>> public policies.
>>
>> And to reach that point faster than slower is more in the interest to 
>> those most excluded in current power configurations..
>>
>> parminder
>>
>> On Tuesday 15 April 2014 08:51 PM, Mike Godwin 
>> (mgodwin at INTERNEWS.ORG) wrote:
>>>
>>> Following a suggestion made by Carolina Rossini at a New America 
>>> Foundation panel she moderated, I mined Laura DeNardis’s and Mark 
>>> Raymond’s paper (“Thinking Clearly about Multistakeholder 
>>> Governance”) for its big chart of “disaggregated internet 
>>> governance” functions.
>>>
>>> I find it’s useful to look at this chart (somewhat clumsily 
>>> assembled by me and attached here as a PDF) and ask which of these 
>>> functions are best administered by multi-stakeholder process, which 
>>> are best administered by expert bodies (including self-selected 
>>> experts), which are best administered by governments or 
>>> intergovernmental entities, and so forth.
>>>
>>> Here’s a link to DeNardis’s talk about her new internet-governance book:
>>> The Global War for Internet Governance with Dr. Laura DeNardis:
>>> http://youtu.be/i_bZw-O7cC0
>>>  via @YouTube
>>>
>>> Unsurprisingly, DeNardis says there’s no one-size-fits-all solution 
>>> for administering every aspect of internet governance.
>>>
>>>
>>> —Mike
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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