[governance] Draft letter to Under-Secretary-General Sha for

[parminder]

On Sunday 17 October 2010 09:32 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:
>
> Dear Bill and all
>
> Exerpt from the NYT article
> <But China has been a minefield for American technology companies, 
> including Microsoft, Yahoo 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/yahoo_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
> and Google 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>, 
> which have grappled with the country’s Internet censorship, and it 
> appears that Microsoft is hoping to avoid new controversies there. >
>
> Why did the NYT miss Cisco in its quotation ? They "adapted" their 
> network equipment to meet China's particular "democratic routing 
> criteria".
> I do hope that it was just an oversight, nothing to do with some 
> advertising revenues risks ...

Apart from the stated issues, and their merit, also try reading the 
article that Bill posted ( 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/17russia.html?hpw ) in light of 
the following piece on the geo-politics of digital activism. I greatly 
recommend this article to everyone, one of the best takes I have come 
across on this issue.

The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital Activism, by Sami Ben 
Gharbia

http://samibengharbia.com/2010/09/17/the-internet-freedom-fallacy-and-the-arab-digital-activism/


The eco-political juggernaut being created by the North/ West is a issue 
that needs much more critical analysis than it often gets, even from the 
civil society actors in Internet/ IG area who come from the 
geo-political South.

Parminder



>
> Best
>
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSDPTT
>
>
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>     > Message du 17/10/10 10:34
>     > De : "William Drake"
>     > A : "Governance List"
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>     > Objet : Re: [governance] Draft letter to Under-Secretary-General
>     Sha for
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>     > On Oct 17, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stefano Trumpy wrote:
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>     > > Very well stated; I support the text.
>     > > Stefano Trumpy
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>     >
>     > +1
>     >
>     > BTW interesting piece in today's NYT on MS &
>     CS….http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/17russia.html?hpw
>     >
>     > Bill
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