[governance] Internet access is 'a fundamental right'

[Eric Dierker]

Interesting Idea.  There were times and places where a man with a name that included Mc were not given the rights of a full man. Governance is not about empowering Multinational corporations to make money and give access for a price. As you both point out -- that will be done regardless. Governance is curbing the powerful for the rights of the weak. IBM, TelMex, Microsoft and Google really do not need you guys to help them. They seem to do very well without you.
 

--- On Mon, 3/8/10, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:


From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Internet access is 'a fundamental right'
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Jean-Louis FULLSACK" <jlfullsack at orange.fr>
Cc: "Parminder" <parminder at itforchange.net>
Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 9:25 PM


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK
<jlfullsack at orange.fr> wrote:
> Dear Parminder
>
> Please don't tell it to our colleagues : I'm still not much convinced
> that Internet access is actually "a fundamental right". What I'm quite sure
> : it isn't an "essential (ethymologically speaking) right". Even ICTs aren't
> ! That was well proven by the five thematic domains the UN Secretary General
> assigned to the the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Jo'burg
> through the acronym WEHAB : Water, Energy,Health, Agriculture and
> Biodiversity. There isn't the least allusion to ICT ! Only the WSIS carried
> this tall story of ICT saving the world from any evil !
>
> Listening to the daily news and watching regularly reports from Africa
> rather strengthen my scepticism about this legend. Let's be realistic and
> let's try to do our best for making the ICTs the most effective tool for
> education, for poverty alleviation and for human and economic development.
> Without no doubt, Internet will have all its place in that struggle, even
> without "fundamental rights" !

Very well said!  My position all along is that this is a sideshow,
already covered by the right to communicate.

Let's get people connected instead of worrying about granting them a
"right" that can't be
fulfilled.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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