[governance] Interesting News Media coverage of the IGF

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 27/09/2011, at 11:24 AM, Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google wrote:

> LONDON (Reuters) - Internet activists will this week make an 11th-hour attempt to stop governments seizing more control of the Web that has fuelled Arab revolutions, enabled mass leaks of U.S. diplomatic cables and allowed online piracy to thrive.

A lot of this article makes me wince, especially one of the comments attributed to me.

> "The IGF is really the last best hope for this process. If it fails, what we're going to get is India, Brazil, South Africa, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and so on putting forward the idea that we need an intergovernmental process."

In the context of the actual interview I gave, I distinguished between the IBSA and the China et al proposals and that there was hope that the IBSA model would actually complement the IGF and respect multi-stakeholder principles, but that we just don't know enough about it yet and haven't been enough involved.

Anyway, I envision posting to this list within the next couple of hours with a summary of the IGC meeting last night.  There were some important issues raised and some decisions we will all need to make.

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