[governance] Monroe Doctrin for Cyberspace?

[Vanda Scartezini]

Carlton

 I guess I could add many others examples to your comments. Lets not be
naïve on this.  

 

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From: carlton.samuels at gmail.com [mailto:carlton.samuels at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Carlton Samuels
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:39 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
Subject: Re: [governance] Monroe Doctrin for Cyberspace?

 

Um, see, history matters!  Those of us on the periphery of empire can attest
to that. 

Seems I share some common reading material with Ms. Davidson.  And while we
read the same books, her worldview leads her to count all other actors in
the space as merely collateral damage.

The Monroe Doctrine is an unfortunate metaphor applied to either
cybersecurity or Internet governance.  I shall take the most benign
explanation and insist she is blithely unaware of the deleterious impact of
the Monroe Doctrine on Latin America and the Caribbean. Honduras is just the
latest gasp in a sorry history of an execrable policy that delivered
"repeated injuries and usurpations greviously committed" and unilateral
extraterritorial interventions resulting in stunted democratic institutions,
mayhem and murder. Other stakeholders, the local people for one, were never
recognized as having worthwhile much less sovereign interests. She clearly
does not know the true history of the United Fruit Company in Central
America and other implementing tools of this doctrine.   I won't even
mention Haiti.   

Let us be clear. The views expressed by Madame Reding of the EC inre
ICANN-related Internet governance issues are merely more, well.....shall we
say nuanced...as befits a better understanding of the sweep of history and
its impact on the future.

History is not bunk.  And culture is a helluva thing!

Carlton Samuels

2009/7/15 "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
<wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>

Here is a good statement from Mary Ann Davidson, CSO from Oracle, where she
proposes a "Monroe Doctrin" for Internet Governance. This is an extended
version from a statement she made in a Congressional Hearing recently.

If somebody expected that we will soon the end of the IG debate, the
contrary will be the case: The discussion has just started and the risk is,
that all the new entrants in the discussion will probably not understand,
what multistakeholderism is and why this has been an achievement for the
diplomacy of the 1st decade of the 21st century. The 2nd decade could look
rather different.

Wolfgang

http://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/
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