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

[Lee W McKnight]

Avri,

I am missing how a meeting with a bunch of speeches, including one British minister with a pre-existing talking points agenda (William Hague), gets to point of multiple governments reaching consensus.   

Last week the German and French government didn't even want the British PM in the same room with them as they struggled to save the Euro; and now we worry (with all due respect) that William Hague will set the global agenda for cybersecurity? Doubt it.

Stranger things have happened I admit, but as our on-site reporter hinted, odds of a major advance given the structure of the meeting seems  - very low.

Lee
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From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [governance at lists.cpsr.org] on behalf of Avri Doria [avri at acm.org]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:31 PM
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Subject: RE: [governance] November 1-2 Ministerial Cyber Event  was Re: [] Cyber Security 2011

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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