[governance] Speakers for IGF - ideas?

[veni markovski]

Karl,

At 20:28 9/6/2007  -0700, you wrote:
>Kieren McCarthy wrote:
>
>>The general public aren't really interested in ICANN's work, sadly.
>
>Which is quite a different thing than saying that the general public 
>is not deeply affected by ICANN's work.

Yes, it is different. And the problem is that only some people see 
the difference. The general public doesn't know ICANN exists (and 
that's good - means ICANN is doing its job), and doesn't care about 
ICANN. Of course, you have to remember that the general publis is not 
only the citizens of the USA, who have different views on democracy 
than the rest of the world, as we all would agree.
So, I don't think it's the lack of directly elected representative 
that makes the general public ignorent about ICANN. It's the new 
culture, the Internet culture, which makes that knowledge irrelevant 
for the people. It has meaning only for a few experts and geeks, 
besides the people who have some (business) interest in the ICANN work.
It's just a different time today, on the Internet; the old political 
culture has not that meaning as it used to, and people have to 
adequately address that, if they want to reach broader audiences.

veni 

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