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

Norbert Bollow nb at bollow.ch
Mon Nov 19 06:28:16 EST 2012


I had written:
> > 1. It is in the global public interest for all of the
> > internationally recognized human rights to be fully implemented
> > worldwide.
> > 
> > 2. It is in the global public interest for global total greenhouse
> > gas emissions to be reduced significantly below their current rates.

Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> That constitutes a lowest common denominator.  If all you want is
> consensus only on those, and on that favourite of miss universe
> contestants every year, "world peace" .. that'd have been achieved at
> the first IGF itself if not at one of several multistakeholder events
> before that.

If we can get these *clearly in the public interest* objectives
actually realized in practical reality, we'll have achieved quite a lot.

It is time for those of us who care about achieving these objectives (to
the extent possible) to start working together on strategies etc.

Greetings,
Norbert

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