[governance] Knight Commission on public polocy: "Net neutrality

[parminder]

Thanks for this Rui. The following quote is rather pithy and instructive

"envision(ing) a meaningful public life that lies beyond both the market 
and our supposedly "unfettered" digital space (which is actually far 
from unfettered).In asking these questions, we're really inquiring about 
the viability of democracy itself.""

Internet's relationship with and impact on public life, public sphere 
and democracy is the key issue that should drive the Internet Governance 
(IG) agenda, overcoming our fixation on Internet vis a vis the market 
paradigm. At the very least, this issue should drive civil society 
agenda in IG. However, a progressive civil society in the global IG 
space that could articulate and advocate such an agenda is almost 
entirely absent. There is, in my view, a more or less exclusive focus on 
personal freedoms, chiefly FoE and privacy - no doubt, basic rights - at 
the expense of such collective priorities and agenda.

Parminder

Rui Correia wrote:
> "Public policy has a role to play in fostering an entrepreneurial, 
> innovative, reinvented journalistic sphere that, in the language of 
> the recent Knight Commission Report, sustains democracy in a digital 
> age. Net neutrality is a good place start, and so is open data, but 
> government might have additional roles to play in stabilizing 
> precarious local news ecosystems -- as long as such support does not 
> unfairly benefit monopolistic incumbents. Is it possible for large, 
> unwieldy government bureaucracies like the Federal Trade Commission to 
> strike this balance? Questions like this are really questions about 
> whether it is possible to envision a meaningful public life that lies 
> beyond both the market and our supposedly "unfettered" digital space 
> (which is actually far from unfettered). In asking these questions, 
> we're really inquiring about the viability of democracy itself."
>
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