Access Topic Re: [governance]

[l.d.misek-falkoff]

Thank you Vittorio, Adam, and All  for opportunity to read and comment, with
a bit of  time to do so.

Just as one comment with some detailing rationale -  the *access* issue
however precisely worded (which is important of course) does seem to be a
threshold one.

Because  only with access into the 'space' where the conversations occur
does one find voice and indeed input to one's own thinking, in order for
expansion and reconsideration of one's own tenets to blossom.

It happens themes of 'rights and duties' (hence of freedoms and their
exercise) is one of my prime themes, and I feel fortunate to be 'in the
room' to discuss this. The same with disabilities and whether I can
physically arrive at and step into a room; in each case might one suggest
that *access* is "condition-precedent"; I think that is a flavor of what is
being discussed in different demographic groups and much welcome your
comments of course.

Warm regards, Linda M F.  LDMF.
Dr. L. D. Misek-Falkoff


On 2/3/07, Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu> wrote:
>
> Adam Peake ha scritto:
> > Good statement (other than the curly quotes :-)
>
> Thanks.
> May I ask everyone to post any proposal for edits before the end of
> Wednesday, so that there still are a few days to discuss any remaining
> issue with such proposals, and for me to prepare a final version?
>
> For the rest, I think your comments are good, I only have a remark on a
> couple of things that go in the direction of expressing particular
> preferences, such as this one:
>
> > differently), suggest we ask that "Representatives from civil society
> > groups who can present a gender perspective [wording?], people with
> > disabilities and experts on local access conditions, particularly from
> > African and SE Asian regions, would be a positive addition to the
> > membership Advisory Group and should be invited to join. IGC would be
> > please to work with the Chair and Secretariat on preparing a possible
> > list of names for the Secretary General's consideration."
>
> and this one:
>
> > Access should be the overarching theme.
> > Capacity building a clear priority out of Athens.
>
> because I think that each of us has different priority issues (for me it
> would be rights and information freedom, for example) and different views
> on who should be added to the AG (I do feel the need to add individual
> users and "hackers", for example). So I would rather state all our
> suggestions for important themes without prioritizing them, and, for what
> regards the AG, say that we think that we have more perspectives to add
> but leave it open about who should be invited to join, also because we
> might want to run the usual nomcom process.
>
> > (related, and I expect
> > some caucus members might object to this, but I would like to see a
> > sentence saying "The IGC welcomes the recognition of the Internet
> > technical community as a fourth stakeholder in the IGF process.
> > Information Society and the critical issues of capacity building and
> > extending access needs the equal participation of this vital fourth
> > stakeholder.")
>
> Well... I'd be happy to welcome it, but not if it is at the damage of our
> own representation. Maybe we can add it, but then add a sentence that
> specifies that this doesn't eliminate the need for ample representation of
> the "traditional" WSIS civil society folks :)
>
> > "Discuss, inter alia, issues relating to critical Internet resources."
> > Which could complement discussions on enhanced cooperation. (I would
> > like us to suggest discussing ICANN  stuff. So long as it doesn't
> > dominate and suck the life from the rest.)
>
> More views on this one? I'd like to understand whether there is any clear
> or rough consensus in the caucus.
> --
> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
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