R: [governance] Nobel Prize for The Internet

[Carlos A. Afonso]

The confusion thickens...

--c.a.

On 09/16/2010 06:09 AM, Shahzad Ahmad wrote:
> May be in the same way as it was given to IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on
> Climate Change…
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> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/
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> The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental Panel on
> Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. "for their efforts to
> build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change,
> and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract
> such change"
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> Best
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> From: Benedek, Wolfgang (wolfgang.benedek at uni-graz.at)
> [mailto:wolfgang.benedek at uni-graz.at]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:50 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; parminder
> Subject: Re: R: [governance] Nobel Prize for The Internet
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> May I endorse the thoughts of Parminder, I do not see what can really be
> gained by the nobel prize for the internet, different from giving it to
> UNHCR, AI etc to point out their good work as a model for humanity and
> support their concerns.
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> Wolfgang Benedek
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> Am 16.09.10 10:17 schrieb "parminder" unter<parminder at itforchange.net>:
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> I am sorry, but I hate to give human status to any artifact.... even the
> Internet... And Nobel prize is for human beings, maybe the best among them
> or whatever..... Next we may hear is that 'the Internet has rights'..... not
> at all going in good directions if you ask me :)
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> (At a recent conf i was given this T shirt - dont think what the Internet
> can do you you - think what you can do to the Internet -- this kind of
> expressions almost scare me, and make me feel belittled as a human being in
> front of a 'system'... Well if we are insistent on going down that path then
> lets give noble prize to the 'system' instead, the all powerful one)
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> parmindr
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> On Thursday 16 September 2010 01:26 PM, Fiorello Cortiana wrote:
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> We have to be pragmatic, the Nobel Prize to the net could be useful to
> recognize it as a commons, the wider public space in the human history, not
> a new  infrastructure after telegraph, telephon, radio, television and PC.
> This is why we need an extension of the rights in
> a new way: multilevel and multistakeholder. I know what I say under
> Berlusconi's Government  the freedom of expression on the net is in peril.
> With Stefano Rodotà and many other we gathered 400.000 signatures under an
> appeal against an awful proposal of law and this time we won. Ready to the
> next one :)
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> Fiorello
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> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Carlos A. Afonso [mailto:ca at cafonso.ca]
> Inviato: giovedì 16 settembre 2010 9.30
> A: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Jeanette Hofmann
> Cc: Shahzad Ahmad
> Oggetto: Re: [governance] Nobel Prize for The Internet
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> I of course agree with Jean, although perhaps I would not phrase it as
> bluntly :)
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> --c.a.
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> On 09/15/2010 07:20 PM, Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
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> I think this is a real rubbish idea and I am very much against sending
> any message to that effect.
> jeanette
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> On 15.09.2010 16:05, Shahzad Ahmad wrote:
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> I suggest that one of CS representative strongly raise the support
> for the Nobel Prize for the Internet either in the closing session or
> in regular interventions in the plenary. It will be good if IGF sends
> a strong message out on this.
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> Best wishes and regards
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> Shahzad
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