[governance] Re: IG questions that are not ICANN [was: Irony]

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

> You give me a specific issue worth fighting for, and show me that ITU
> is the best place to fight it, then I'll be there. But if you want me
> to knock my head against the wall of a 150 year old bureaucracy trying
> to gain some generic recognition for something called "civil society"
> no thanks.

Well, if that means you recognized that it isn't worth trying to play
politics in a field where there's a lot of entrenched politics already
present .. great.

There are quite a few broadly inclusive projects though, at least on
cybersecurity - there could be other such projects in other areas - that
actually welcome civ soc and industry participation. And have nothing much
in particular to do with ITU decision making processes or voting / "flag"
rights.

All it amounts to is that a variety of different initiatives (quite often
from other international organizations in government, industry and civil
society) are applied practically, in a developing economy. And the results
tabulated and reported back. And various organizations contribute their
money, their people, and their efforts to do what they are already committed
to doing [ICT and access? Capacity building? International cooperation and
outreach?]

If civil society groups that are actually in the trenches [1] doing these
initiatives don't participate in them, it'd be a pity indeed.

	srs

[1] As opposed to, say, merely churning out "position papers" and playing
power politics

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