[governance] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy- Bloomberg

[michael gurstein]

Why?

The discussions around the WCIT/are overrun with precisely those kinds of
generalizations.

But it is a serious question, if we believe that there is a global public
interest (in the Internet) who do we trust to best represent that public
interest (IBM, Google, the USG?) and within what (global) framework will
that representation best take place (the market place, the US State
Department, Google, the IGF?). (Unfortunately, I don't see CS as
sufficiently strong or as sufficiently independent to even mention it in
this context.)

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:39 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; michael gurstein
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Why Cell Phones Went
Dead After Hurricane Sandy- Bloomberg

michael gurstein [17/11/12 06:00 -0800]:
>Who can we rely on to act in support of the (global) public 
>interest--IBM, Google, Facebook, AT&T, the USG, "the market"..?

"civil society"?  also note "act effectively"

Generalizing would be a grave mistake here.


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