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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

It is actually long past time to operationalize what consensus we do have.

Operationalize as in, move something out of the realm of word docs and powerpoint into real life policy and technology that gets broadly adopted.

--srs (iPad)

On 19-Nov-2012, at 16:58, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> 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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