AW: [governance] Internet G8 meeting

[parminder]

On Monday 09 May 2011 10:07 AM, McTim wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Jeremy Malcolm<jeremy at ciroap.org>  wrote:
>> Thanks Parminder and Avri.  Here's a consolidated draft with Avri's edits.
>> SNIP
>>
>>      Big businesses already have a disproportionately large influence on
>>      government bureaucracies. For governments to sanction a dedicated
>> meeting
>>      with top G8 leaders and officials to plan the global agenda for Internet
>> related
>>      policies is inappropriate. What is required is a discussion that
>> includes civil
>>      society actors
> <insert>
> and the Internet technical community
> </insert>
>




>







>
> , who will bring to the table the concerns of global
>> public interest
>>      derived from a diversity of people's, of many sections of society,
>> interests and
>>      concerns.
>>
>>      It is also pertinent to state here that since the Internet is
>> essentially a
>>      global phenomenon, policies framed together by the most powerful
>> nations,
>>      quite likely, will become the default global norm. This is most true for
>>      architectural and economic issues, while the global impact on other
>> areas
>>      will also be substantial. It is therefore appropriate that G 8 countries
>>      engage with the same, and other issues, of Internet policies at the more
>>      democratic global forums where all countries
> dlete "countries" above
>
> and insert "stakeholders"
>
> and I will be happy with the draft as edited by Avri.
>
>
Lets not start that old debate again. If you mean tech community which 
is involved with public interest advocacy - you for instance - then it 
is already included when we say 'include civil society', if they are 
serving big business and representing their interests, it is hardly in 
keeping with the principal thrust of this submission to push for greater 
inclusion of them. parminder

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Parminder Jeet Singh
Executive Director
IT for Change
NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC
www.ITforChange.net <http://www.ITforChange.net/>
Tel:+91-80-2665 4134, 2653 6890. Fax:+91-80-4146 1055


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