[governance] Contact IGF Nairobi

[Brice Abba]

Hi ALL
Can we have some contact to call in case of problem according to the visa at the Nairobi airport. Kenya has not embassy in many countries...
Regards,

Brice ABBA

Ingénieur en Sciences InformatiquesAdmin Système SAFRAN MORPHOResp. DNSsec au NIC CI et LABTIC, LARIT
mob: (+225)-08-607-228
fix(home): (+225)-23-512-912



> From: nb at bollow.ch
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:53:18 +0200
> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: IGC on Facebook?
> 
> David Allen <David_Allen_AB63 at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Happily, the Arab spring had some new tools, however flawed, that  
> > helped put it / them over the top.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Obviously the Arab spring activists didn't worry much about what
> a "social networking" / marketing company would do with their data.
> 
> Whether such lack of concern is justified is a different question.
> 
> There's a lot of scenarios where such lack of concern could turn
> out to be very harmful. For example, I'd be very surprised if the
> secret services of all remaining oppressive governments aren't
> working very hard on gaining access e.g. to the internal network
> of Facebook, and on developing strategies for exploiting whatever
> architectural or other flaws of Facebook they may be able to discover.
> 
> > Equally happily, we can do better than flawed tools.  And as a policy  
> > group, re global 'Net policy, hopefully we will, by advocating /  
> > innovating tools that are even more common - and of quality.  Instead  
> > of selling ourselves to marketeers ...
> 
> Strongly agreed. We may not succeed in avoiding every flaw, but
> at least we can work towards creating communication tools etc
> that avoid the worst flaws, and we can avoid "selling ourselves
> to marketeers" in the sense of effectively requiring people to
> join Facebook (or any other service with similar privacy concerns
> and/or lock-in effects) in order to fully participate in IGC internal
> "who meets whom when and where while in Nairobi" coordination.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
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