AW: [governance] Pizza? Leaning tower of Pizza.

[Eric Dierker]

That is like many who "attend" here.  Yes they are members and yes they make nice. But do they contribute?  Oh yes they do and even add a sentence or comment here and there.
 
But do they stand up and demand rights?  Do they make their presence known? Do they go out on a limb and "own" a position?  Do they risk public opinion against them by forcing issues and holding others publicly accountable for their actions? 
 
In otherwords are they meeting the obligations of International Citizens?  With this space they occupy are the filling it or are they fulfilling it?
 
The greatest test of this "new accountability" era is not on ICANN. It is on those netizens and GAC members to demand and require it. Having rights in internet governance is not by grace, it is earned.
 


--- On Thu, 10/1/09, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:


From: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Subject: AW: [governance] Pizza? Leaning tower of Pizza.
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Eric Dierker" <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>, governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Willie Currie" <wcurrie at apc.org>
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 7:43 AM





Erik  
The biggest point of interest will be: Will China now take a seat at the GAC table?

Wolfgang:
The Chinese government is a member of the GAC since 1998, but did not participate in the meetings until the recent Sydney emeting because Taiwan is also an official GAC members (due to the clause in the GAC founding document that giovernments and "recognized territories" were invited to join the GAC). However in Sydney China and Taiwan were sitting together in the same room and - supriose, surprise - sjakhed hans when they entered the room :-)))>> 

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