[bestbits] Internet Governance in Latin America research project

[Claudio Ruiz]

> On 22-04-2015, at 12:58, willi uebelherr <willi.uebelherr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Renata,
> 
> it can be a good initiative. But my experience in Latin America show me, that there are no people to understand, what is "Internet Governance" and what we have to do to create a InterNet. Maybe, also the most people on this lists don't understand, what we have to do.
> 
> Connect to the different Ministerios in the different countries. Then ypu can see and hear, that they don't understand the themes "tele communication". But they create decisions. And this always based on the external definitions.
> 
> In my last 4 years in Latin America never i found people with connections to the international discussions about Internet. Never i found people with a critical thinking to that, what we give the name Internet.
> 
> In Latin America we have the organized consumerism. They use only the technical systems from the external regions. But never they start to understand the technical bases. And this we find also in NetMundial in Brazil.

One thing I haven’t seen in all this years working in this space in Latin America is a patronizing view about what it should be done or what people do or do not 'understand'. 

Cheers.

—Claudio Ruiz
derechosdigitales.org | @claudio
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