[governance] Re: [ciresearchers] Guardian Online: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice

Jeremy Malcolm jeremy at ciroap.org
Thu Dec 9 22:17:58 EST 2010


On 09/12/2010, at 2:36 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:

> I'm at this point indifferent as to the need for an IGC statement on
> Wikileaks, in part for the reasons that McTim mentions below i.e. to whom
> would such a statement be addressed.

As a press release it would be a good means of outreach, I think... does the outreach committee want to suggest a message about the IGC to include in such a release?

> On the other hand, precisely because of McTim's answer to the question I
> think we should be focussing all of our efforts on producing the broad
> statement of principles re: IG which Parminder and others have been
> proposing.

I see a long-term Internet governance manifesto for the IGC as a good idea, and also something for the attention of one of our sub-committees, the strategy committee.

Meanwhile, I will put together a narrower piece on Wikileaks, and send it around later today (work is very heavy for me at the moment, sorry I can't promise anything sooner).

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