On NN workshop RE: Re: [governance] Three IGC workshops ) NN FYI DIPLO

[McTim]

Foo

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be advisable that for once, this workshop should only give the
> developing world perspective.



Is there such a thing?

I've never seen one.  Here in Africa, it's just not on many agendas.



> What I have felt on NN issues is lobbies fighting with each other while
> keeping out the developing world segment that will be truly affected by the
> Internet.
>
> I want to add the capacity building element here. I don't see a single
> activity on the ground where a certain NN advocacy group has gone to
> regulators to educate them on NN related issues and how to/not to develop a
> stand on the issue.
>


I'm all about capacity building, so this could be a useful project.



>  The fact remains that the larger portion of Internet and Web resources
> remain in the developed West and the developing east and south are usually
> outside the picture.
>


What resources are you talking about, and how does this impact NN?



> Not having the knowledge nor capacity leads regulators to regulate the
> Internet in such a way that is not beneficial for their citizenry and in the
> long run not at all beneficial for the governments themselves because they
> cap themselves from providing their social and economic setup the
> opportunity that a neutral network would actually offer.
>


Can you give examples?



> This is a whole different debate.
>
> Within the NN debate I am yet to see corporations from the developing world
> step into the discussion or fight on issues pertaining to the topic at any
> global Internet discussion forum so the issue remains, do we want to bring
> in those that continue to blur the NN debate and give them the opportunity
> to continue to do so or should we now move the whole NN discussion towards
> the developing countries.
>


I can't parse this.  I don't know who is guilty of blurring (except anti-NN
lobbies), which may be who you mean.  What is confusing is that you say that
there is a lack of capacity in the developing world on the one hand, yet
want to include only them?  How is "the blind leading the blind" useful? NB
this is not a slur or denigration of the visually impaired, rather "a
metaphor used in antiquity"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_blind_leading_the_blind

I particularity like this one:

"Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned,
fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind. "

from

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/67150.html



-- 
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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