[governance] November 1-2 Ministerial Cyber Event was Re: [] Cyber Security 2011

[Avri Doria]

On 31 Oct 2011, at 06:31, Deirdre Williams wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15355739 UK seeks 'consensus' at cyberspace conference


and earlier message asked:

> On 30 Oct 2011, at 14:59, Lee W McKnight wrote:
> 
>> I'm unclear what people are alarmed about; 
> 

Me personally? It is that Governments at a ministerial level reach a consensus, without proper multistakeholder participation and then work to cram it down the collective throats of the world.  I fear that such a consensus would be at the expense of the freedoms most of us hold dear, but that governments often find troublesome when trying to control their populations.  And I feat that in any follow-up, Civil Society would find itself fighting against the tide - agreeable to the Business community because it spurs the sale of further hardware and software systems, but deleterious to the public good.

That is what alarms me.

avri

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