[bestbits] FW: [] NETmundial Initiative Announces Formation of its Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad Global Community Consultation Phase | NETmundial

Avri Doria avri at acm.org
Sun Dec 28 18:07:16 EST 2014


On 27-Dec-14 23:18, parminder wrote:
>
> To my understanding,  for most of those who now support the NMI, the
> case against UN institutions' involvement with IG was the presence of
> Chinas and Irans over there - how can we trust our Internet to such
> authoritarian governments?!  It is a bit strange to see a special
> happiness being expressed when the same actors now join the NMI. What
> is one missing here?

Far be it for me to know what others might be missing.

But I do believe the difference is between having them and other
governments dominate a process, sometimes to the exclusion of all
others, and the beginning of their particpation in new multistakeholder
experiments.

avri
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