[governance] Strangeness in the IGF programme

[Katitza Rodriguez]

As far as I remember this discussion was focus on examples like the  
one in haiti. Not sure which is the link with IG.


On Mar 3, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

>>> "Maintaining Internet services in situations of disaster and crisis"
>>> - a good topic for network operators but what's the CIR angle and
>>> how is global governance involved?
>>
>> There's a whole world out there that calls itself "Critical  
>> [National]
>> Infrastructure" and is all about governments having enough levers to
>> pull in a time a time of natural (or un-natural) disaster to instruct
>> operators to do things "in the National Interest" that they would not
>> normally feel obliged to - as a result of contractual or other
>> considerations.
>
> Yes, indeed there is. Linking IG to nationalistic conceptions of  
> critical infrastructure is all about assertions of control by  
> states. You have just demonstrated the value of inquiring into what  
> kind of thinking went into these topical categories.  
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