[governance] India's communications minister - root server misunderstanding (still...)

[Sivasubramanian M]

Dear Alejandro,

Many of these 'misunderstandings' indicate that our policy makers, as also,
those in many other countries are misled by anti-Internet lobby groups, in
this case this misunderstanding is a reflection of what has been fed by
"Advisors" who haven't worried about the blatant inaccuracy of the
misinformation planted at the ministerial level.

The situation you have described about the Kenya IGF where the IBSA
proposal caused discomfort, is another example of wrong advice and strong
influences at junior level which sometimes causes people of higher
administrative and/or ministerial responsibility to be criticized. In this
Kenya and some other instances, it could have been a situation of a
lobbyist with an NGO facade earning enough trust to prepare a whole draft
in the name of the country. Such situations would indeed change with
learned and responsible good people within the administration paying
attention to the inner dynamics and paying attention to every word that
gets published / spoken in the name of the country.

Unfortunately, what has so far surfaced in the name of India does not truly
reflect the Indian mind, which is far more sensible and evolved.

I would strongly agree with an earlier comment on this thread that the
Internet Community has not done enough to disseminate fundamental
information on the workings of something as new as the Internet on which
not many policy makers could be expected to be experts without a focussed
program.  While this need is left unfilled by the Internet Community,
negative forces are busy with plenty of misinformation by proximity.

Sent from Turiya MID
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On Aug 2, 2012 11:03 AM, "Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch" <apisan at unam.mx>
wrote:
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