[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Er, as opposed to how many democratically elected governments?  The UN has
192 member states - so that's a majority, a simple majority to be sure but .

 

There are also the mechanics there .. tinpot dictatorships that depend
largely for aid on one country or the other will toe the voting line of that
country in the UN, or they will vote as blocs etc etc.

 

But how different is that from domain kiters (say) having a voice in ICANN?

 

                suresh

 

From: KovenRonald at aol.com [mailto:KovenRonald at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:03 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Reinstate the Vote

 


In a message dated 22/11/07 2:12:41, suresh at hserus.net writes:





the vast majority of the world has democratically elected governments



The statement above is inaccurate. A small minority of countries in Africa,
the Arab world and the former Soviet Union can be said by normal criteria to
have democratically elected governments. There are some 90 clearly
non-democratic governments represented in the UN.

The implication of that for I'net governance is the obvious one that
transferring responsibility for cyberspace to a UN body would mean that it
would be controlled in the interests of non-democratic states.

Best regards, Rony Koven


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