[governance] My blog on Internet's Governance http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com

[Eric Dierker]

Very nice blogging indeed. Perhaps you could clarify a prevailing rant of yours.  I will say it bluntly so as to get the issue on the table and let the fretters worry if I am politically correct.
 
It seems like you are saying that for the sake of Internet Governance; Quality and competence should be replaced by an Affirmative Action Program for Developing Nations. Or perhaps better is DNAAP?
 
This has merit for the same reason any affirmative action program does. But are you bold enough to just come out and be honest about it?  Personally I would prefer it to the stepson, tokenism and throw the dog a bone mentality that now exists within ICANN.  I grew up in the developing and underdeveloped Navajo Nation within the US borders, I can see dimming lights from where I live that are from a developing nation and my wife and two adopted sons are from developing nations and I find the lack of humanism and depth in Southern California to be below standards of a developed nation. So I think I could get behind your position if you came out of the closet and called a spade a spade.
 
OTOH it is my belief that as it exists today the Internet is enough of a gap bridger that we maybe should not mess with the development of these nations. That as information flows intelligence and opportunity is manifest in any who chose that path.  And therefor it would be my hope that we move forward without attaching programs as it were that allow developed nations to corrupt but rather give developing nations a conduit to take what they want.
 


--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
Subject: [governance] My blog on Internet's Governance http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 9:26 PM


Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share the link to my blog that specifically covers global
Internet governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/

The motivation comes after repeated requests from friends and
colleagues to consolidate my comments related to IGF and and now ICANN
as well as IG in general within a single space that is both accessible
to share comments.

Therefore, I will be collecting all my thoughts and comments from
participation within the IGF and ICANN meetings on a regular basis and
feel free to comment and share your own ideas thereof. Do follow my
comments from the IGF meeting in Sharam El-Sheikh and my endeavours on
IG at ICANN.

If you have any information or links that you may want to share
including links to your blogs, I would love to share them on my blog
and vice versa.

-- 
Regards.
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