AW: [governance] Internet G8 meeting

[McTim]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:55 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

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> On Monday 09 May 2011 10:07 AM, McTim wrote:
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> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
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>  Thanks Parminder and Avri.  Here's a consolidated draft with Avri's edits.
> SNIP
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>     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
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> and the Internet technical community
> </insert>
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>  , who will bring to the table the concerns of global
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>  public interest
>     derived from a diversity of people's, of many sections of society,
> interests and
>     concerns.
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>     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
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>  dlete "countries" above
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> and insert "stakeholders"
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> and I will be happy with the draft as edited by Avri.
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>  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',
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I thought you denied that the tech community was part of CS?


 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.
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I thought that including everybody was the point?


-- 
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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