[governance] Key contributions - come from all sorts of places..

[David Goldstein]

I totally agree with George, and in particular "Many of us believe that 99.9% of the Internet community just want the Internet to work..."

Back in around 2000 I was in my hometown of around 2,500 people in a shop and the woman serving me asked questions, as they often do in small towns! When she found I'd been involved in child protection issues on the internet for the previous 4 or 5 years she thought I was her saviour! She had kids, and wanted to know how to protect them, justifiably or not, from what she considered problematic content.

There are many more stories from many different people, and George is right, people just want to be able to use the internet, and safety is a prime issue, whether it's protecting children or shopping or avoiding malware...

Compiling my news and information service - of which the key stories are at http://technewsreview.com.au/ - I also know that there are no key repositories of information and the information is not readily shared, which is what Veni has more or less said. It's something I'm attempting to deal with, and I'm happy for people to send me references to papers and stories to include on my website.

Cheers
David


----- Original Message ----
From: George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky at attglobal.net>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Mr. Robert Guerra <lists at privaterra.info>
Sent: Friday, 27 April, 2007 1:06:18 AM
Subject: Re: [governance] Key contributions - come from all sorts of places..

All,

I adopt the broad view of Internet governance, and for me a key issue 
is the extent to which Internet governance concerns are national in 
scope and the extent to which they are international.  Understanding 
the locus of any problem is key to understanding which mechanisms can 
be used to ameliorate or fix it.

So Bill's comment regarding national vs. global is quite pertinent.

Many of us believe that 99.9% of the Internet community just want the 
Internet to work.  They want the availability of affordable access, 
with a right to confidentiality of communication.

I believe that it is of critical importance to understand clearly the 
impediments to this goal, and for each such impediment, the venue in 
which they can be fixed and therefore should be addressed.  GIPI has 
made a start in this direction, other organizations have clearly 
contributed also.

I do not find a lot of discussion on this list responsive to this 
goal. Perhaps I'm just out of step with the list.

George

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At 10:29 AM -0400 4/26/07, Mr. Robert Guerra wrote:
>On 26-Apr-07, at 9:54 AM, Veni Markovski wrote:
>
>>
>>If good initatives and decisions are taking place in other 
>>countries, and you know about them, why not share it? Why not 
>>create a world map of Internet governance, and instead of wasting 
>>hours, days, and weeks in discussions, we could focus on the 
>>solutions?
>>
>
>Good  initiatives and projects  - Many come to mind such as GigaNet, 
>APC, DiploFoundation, ISOC - to name a few.  Likely you know about 
>many of them..
>
>Many of the people involved in those projects are already on this 
>list.  Thus, i'll leave it up to them to elaborate as to what they 
>think is the most strategic way to engage in the ongoing policy 
>discussions related to IG.
>
>regards
>
>Robert
>
>
>
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