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

[michael gurstein]

Of course, what you are saying is precisely what is being said in the
current deregulation push in US telecoms i.e. that corporate actors can be
trusted (in a deregulated context) to act in accordance with the public
interest (with the consequences that Susan Crawford is pointing to in her
piece noted bleow...

You might note in passing that CS in the context of the BestBits discussion
indicated in the context of the anticipated revision of the ITR's and a
requirement that  " the framing of public policy is the pursuit of the
public interest" and that this statement was signed onto by numerous CS (and
other actors). http://bestbits.igf-online.net/statement/

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:suresh at hserus.net] 
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 7:41 AM
To: michael gurstein
Cc: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [MobileActive Discuss] Why Cell Phones Went
Dead After Hurricane Sandy- Bloomberg

There is no such thing as a global public interest, it is too utopian a
concept.

A shared consensus on best practices and acceptable standards of behaviour /
codes of conduct are about the closest you will have in real life and
outside wcit, igf etc slide decks.

--srs (iPad)

On 17-Nov-2012, at 20:48, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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