[bestbits] [governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[Shahzad Ahmad]

+1 to Claudio and Anriette.

Since we do not work in IP and relevant areas so did not comment on the
thread.

...but I have to say that increasingly I find the lists to be quite
hostile. It wasn't like that earlier. Can we try to work towards better
environment of online interactions?

I fear that newcomers won't be able to contribute much otherwise. Yes,
we can disagree but still be much more productive and goal oriented.

Best wishes and regards

Shahzad



On 5/21/15 12:43 AM, Claudio Ruiz wrote:
> Strong +1 to Anriette as well.
>
> It’s heartbreaking to me to receive so much emails about the definition of MS on every single thread someone put on the list no matter whether the thread is exactly that or one of the most important initiatives on copyright and public interest around the world such as the Global Congress.
>
>
> There are people who apparently really enjoy to have this long discussions on long emails threads transforming everything into a discussion on MS or ICANN or, lately, what public interest means.
>
> Personally speaking, it would be a better use of my time to use our BestBits mailing list to have substantive and productive exchange of ideas, experiences and points of view, rather than to convert it as a public space for a handful of people with apparently time and resources to share endless discussions about they think it’s important. And, let me tell you: it isn’t. 
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>> On May 19, 2015, at 14:13, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all
>>
>> I am writing against my better judgement, but here goes anyway.
>>
>> The Global Congress on IP has been one of the most important spaces were
>> radical civil society has mobilised and strategised against some of the
>> most problematic US-government lead initiatives with regard to impact on
>> access to knowledge in recent years - ACTA and TPP.
>>
>> I have only ever been an observer at the Global Congress (when it was in
>> Cape Town in 2013) but have always learnt a lot, and I really value the
>> work that this community does in WIPO among other spaces. In Africa the
>> Global Congress has collaborated with projects such as the African
>> Access to Knowledge project.. people that we have done really important
>> work with, and who have influenced intellectual property legislation
>> positively. They work with groups such as councils for the blind and
>> visually impaired, and the library community. People that we need in
>> internet governance spaces if we want to build movement for social
>> justice in internet governance.
>>
>> I find it extremely disappointing and distressing that the debate in
>> this thread is not about substantial issues that the Global Congress
>> will address, but about whether it is 'multistakeholder' or not -
>> evolving into yet another set of assertions that everyone who supports
>> the notion of multistakeholder in ANY sense at all is by definition
>> coopted by empire.
>>
>> Why not write about substantive issues, and about how to pursue a social
>> justice agenda around the issues that are internet-related that the
>> Global Congress will address?
>>
>> Anriette
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19/05/2015 18:51, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>>> On 19/05/2015 5:50 am, parminder wrote:
>>>> Coming to the context of the series of congresses on 'Intellectual
>>>> property and public interest', here is the list of participants
>>>> <http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Participants-Handout1.pdf>of
>>>> the 2011 Congress . Just one big business participant - Google among
>>>> scores and scores others. And none in program committee, or among the
>>>> hosing group or funders (except one, again Google, which is certainly
>>>> an oddity, perhaps explainable but wont go there right now) . No way
>>>> to me this looks like a multistakeholder or MS conference, as we have
>>>> come to understand the term in the Internet governance space.
>>> Apples and oranges; the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest
>>> never purported to be a multi-stakeholder event; it is closer to a Best
>>> Bits meeting or your Internet Social Forum, both of which are civil
>>> society only, than it is to something like the IGF.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jeremy Malcolm
>>> Senior Global Policy Analyst
>>> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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