SV: [governance] Fundamentally broken design of society

[kwasi boakye-akyeampong]

Norbert, Kikki,

I'd be part of any such initiative if you'd take it up. It will be an opportunity for me to learn. Until Kikki threw the disability angle to the digital divide debate, I, personally, had not given it much consideration since it is something that is (if I'm not exagerating) totally ignored in the developing world. I can at least say that for my country Ghana.

Thanks,
Kwasi

Kicki Nordström <kicki.nordstrom at srfriks.org> wrote: Dear Norbert.,

Maybe you are absolutely right, we the civil society have to show the way forward! A group of people could be assigned to discuss this matter, and there are, I think, a network of persons with disabilities, linked to this list, (I hope) and we may have just to address  this network to put a group together?!  Others may be interested as well and should be welcome. 

The group I am thinking of was created at the first WSIS and with its side event, we have continued to work on the resolution we adopted, wishing a ICT society open for ALL! The resolution was further developed in Tunis at the second phase of WSIS and the disability Forum hold the second side event. 

I really hope something will happen now so as we can move this issue a bit further! 

Thanks Norbert., for your good initiative, do you mind to take the lead?
Yours
Kicki 

Kicki Nordström
Synskadades Riksförbund (SRF) 
World Blind Union (WBU)
122 88 Enskede
Sweden
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Från: Norbert Bollow [mailto:nb at bollow.ch] 
Skickat: den 31 juli 2007 18:23
Till: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Ämne: [governance] Fundamentally broken design of society

Dear Kicki,
  I very strongly agree with your assertion that the real problem lies with a fundamentally broken design of society!

(Note: The following sentence is perhaps a bit complicated, but it can be safely ignored by all but the most pedantic of readers.
In the above statement, I understand "design of society" to mean both the currently existing system by means of which society as a whole is composed out of a very large number of sub-systems, as well the way in which the decisions are made by means of which society as a whole is allowed to evolve.)

Now the question arises, how can this fundamental brokenness be fixed?

Certainly it is not possible for society as a whole to get fixed all at once!

So the best that can be done, in my opinion, is to start small, get a small but diverse group of people together (electronically, by means of a mailing list) who agree on wanting to figure out how a subsystem of society can be constructed which avoids the kind of fundamental "design of society" flaws that result in the production of _disabling_ software.  I'm sure that when we figure out how to produce, within such a subsystem of society, computer software which is not disabling but rather empowering for everyone, that kind of software is going to be a commercial success also with the large number of computer users who are not particularly interested in "design of society" problems.

What do you think?

Gruss,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow                     http://Norbert.ch
Präsident der Swiss Internet User Group SIUG        http://SIUG.ch
Die SIUG engagiert sich für den Schutz der Privatsphäre und dafür, dass auch in Zukunft das Internet auf offenen Standards basiert.
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