[governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

[Milton L Mueller]

Parminder:
A bit tendentious, as usual. While the overall number of poor in India is very large, as a percentage of the total population it has halved since the 1970s and the slope of the downward line seems to have increased since economic liberalization.
Tell me if this statistical graph is incorrect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BPL_Data_GOI.png
Most sources I see, admittedly second-hand, indicate that the bureaucratic "license Raj" in India stifled growth after the 1950s and that poverty has decreased since the 1980s liberalizing reforms.

From: parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 9:20 AM
To: McTim
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

McTim

Rest of your responses to my proposal are a bit of a standard exchange between us, and I may have not have much new to say, but I will like to make a comment on the following.

On Saturday 06 November 2010 01:26 PM, McTim wrote:

>

> And if we think there is a global vacuum vis a vis global IG policies, what

> is our analysis about whose interests such a vacuum serves,



It seems to have served innovation quite well, built economies and

eco-sytems.  Look at your own backyard to find the




About my backyard, two things

one, pl read this article about the recent 2010 UNDP HDR report, from which I quote
"India has failed to make any significant improvement in its poverty figures,with over 400 million -- more than the total in the poorest African nations -- still struck in poverty, the Human Development Report 2010 said today, listing India at the 119th position on the Human Development Index." ( some more details, that may be startling to some, at  http://www.mydigitalfc.com/economy/indias-growth-fails-translate-poverty-alleviation-hdr-024 )
One may wonder how in this time of ICTs and instant news from all over the world, people seem to keep getting not too right a picture of where and how things really may be in India. Any comments on this?

Second thing about my backyard, I did share with the list a few weeks back, mobile companies are colonizing the mobile Internet in India by the day like nobody's business. Mobile Internet is facebook, google and yahoo, not the neutral and open Internet we seem to be thinking and talking about here. I have no doubt that, going this way, the Internet would soon turn into an instrument of increased dependency of the marginalised on outside forces and agents. Its potential for empowering local, community based processes is being increasingly compromised.

So, yes, I do look at my backyard, and my comments and my proposal are informed by it.

Parminder



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