[governance] Ziitrain on Facebook

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

Carlos,

Sorry for the comparison with Brazil :-)) Was just to verify Dick Beaird's
statement. France anyway is far below and not concerned in that numbers
race.

Of course it is NOT a country ;-)

B.

2009/4/30 Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br>

> Fine, but let us remind ourselves that it is *not* a country ;)
>
> --c.a.
>
>
> Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:
>
>> Thanks Wolfgang for pointing us to this article.
>>
>> As a matter of fact, the US representative in the recent ITU World Telecom
>> Policy Forum in Lisbon has used himself the analogy that Jonathan raises
>> by
>> saying explicitly : "if Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth
>> largest". If Facebook is really 200 million registered users, it has
>> indeed
>> passed Brazil in the list of countries ranked by population. (see :
>> http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbrank.pl)
>>
>> Jonathan's points make sense and I have raised them in the IGF, in
>> particular in Hyderabad, to highlight the fact that such companies "terms
>> of
>> service" are not traditional terms of service but become the law of the
>> space for most users.
>>
>> The two questions that this brings are :
>> - *What is the governance of such social networks* : the processes by
>> which
>> such terms of service are "elaborated and applied" (cf. the definition of
>> Internet Governance), as they represent "principles, norms,
>> decision-making
>> procedures and programs" - and in this respect, Facebook is clearly taking
>> unprecedented initiatives
>> - *What relation with the web of national laws* : the articulation between
>> those "company governance regimes" and the various national laws and legal
>> jurisdictions that should apply.
>>
>> The Internet has evolved form the physical IP-based network used mostly
>> for
>> email and file transfer into the http/html-based World Wide Web used to
>> access information. It is clearly reaching a third stage with social
>> networking applications, creating a sort of SocioNet, that is looking for
>> its appropriate governance protocols.
>>
>> This is the reason why, on behalf of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet
>> Rights and Principles, I have suggested a workshop theme for the next IGF,
>> under the title : "The Governance of Social Media", precisely to address
>> this type of issues. I hope it will be retained.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Bertrand
>>
>>
>> 2009/4/29 "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
>> wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
>>
>>  http://www.opendemocracy.net/node/47778/pdf
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Bertrand de La Chapelle
Délégué Spécial pour la Société de l'Information / Special Envoy for the
Information Society
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes/ French Ministry of Foreign
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