[governance] Completely Ignored [was East Africa IGF - day 2, discussion of ITRs]

[parminder]

On Tuesday 24 July 2012 12:33 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <500E24CF.5050805 at itforchange.net>, at 10:00:07 on Tue, 24 
> Jul 2012, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
>
>> the so-called APrIGF in Hongkong in 2010.
>
> Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought anyone could organise an event and 
> call it an IGF. It doesn't need permission from anyone.

And of course next it will be claimed that anyone can organise a global 
IGF. Such vaporisation of governance/ policy spaces serves those well 
who have nothing to get and gain from such spaces, but not those, 
relatively on the margins, who look at legitimate political structures 
to check power excesses and abuses.... parminder

>
> (Similarities with the wisdom of unilaterally calling something the 
> "Olympics" might ring a bell with followers of the newTLD process, if 
> not the extensive TM protection wrapped around the London Games).
>
> There was a European IGF, created by the European Parliament, which 
> didn't get the funding it was expecting, and it's my impression that 
> was why EuroDIG was chosen as a name for its alternative (which has 
> now had several well-regarded annual meetings).
>
> So an alternative regional meeting in Asia-Pacific [or anywhere else] 
> is not ruled out, if you have issues with the current organisers (I am 
> entirely neutral on that point).
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