[governance] Why do you associate the tech community with private sector ?

[Jacqueline Morris]

True, but that should not determine their positioning in the scheme of
things - should include them in a manner that alows for future
participation by the FS ppl.
Jacqueline

On 11/9/05, Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 06-11-2005 alle 17:49 +0100, Hervé Le Crosnier ha
> scritto:
> >       In many of recent mails on this list we find this three
> >       points list.
> >
> >       Why do the technical community is not in the civil
> >       society part ?
> >
> >       Most of the founding techniques of the internet came from
> >       universities, from the free software community.
>
> I know, actually I think I explained that in an earlier message of mine:
>
> > Grossly speaking, engineers (with the
> > very significant exception of the free software movement) tend to be
> > associated with corporate employers, while universities tend to be
> > considered part of civil society, but that's of course very
> > approximate.
>
> I think that it's also because the free software movement has not been
> very involved in Internet Governance forums until now. I've almost never
> seen any FS activist at ICANN or at the WGIG consultations, while I've
> seen many and many engineers from big corporations. Perhaps the FS
> people should start to become more active in these forums so that their
> role (which was fundamental to the growth of the Internet, as you point
> out) is more clearly recognized.
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