[governance] U.S. - Japan Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet Economy

[parminder]

On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:50 PM, Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:
> The United States and Japan held the fourth Director General-level 
> meeting of the U.S.-Japan Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the Internet 
> Economy in Washington, D.C.
>
> http://www.yumanewsnow.com/index.php/news/latest/1450-u-s-japan-policy-cooperation-dialogue-on-the-internet-economy

 From the agreement text:

    Encouraging other countries to develop principles consistent with
    the “United States-Japan Trade Principles for Information and
    Communication Technology Services.


SNIP

    ........For these reasons, industry representatives suggested the
    following activities:

    · U.S-Japan collaboration for establishing an international
    framework to support cloud computing.

    · Promoting the use of cloud computing in developing countries and
    reducing the digital divide.

    · Considering a range of policy issues, including: privacy, cloud
    computing security, digital content, interoperability, and portability.


(quotes end)

So rich countries merely go along developing 'global' principles for the 
Internet, and to 'encourage' other countries to follow / adopt them. 
Industry reps too want them to develop '/*international */framework to 
support cloud computing', to promote use of cloud computing in 
developing countries, and to consider a range of policy issues....

And when proposals like UN CIRP are made with a view to address these 
global Internet policy issues at globally democratic spaces, not only 
these developed countries, most hypocritically, cry foul, so does the 
industry (here seen actively encouraging developed countries to do 
exactly the same kind of work), and also, most disappointingly, the so 
called global IG civil society.

Perhaps it is time the global IG civil society stop being the B team of 
developed countries' political and economic interests and really take up 
the interests of the more marginalised that it is supposed to represent. 
They need to develop an independent global IG agenda to be championed by 
the civil society, which looks like something worth championing by civil 
society.

Does anyone here have answers why they remain silent with regard to the 
active work of rich countries to develop 'global' Internet policy 
principles, and react so rabidly to any effort at democratising global 
Internet policy making. Fine if they dont like the CIRP proposal, come 
up with something else. But the complicit silence is deafening.

parminder






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> Fahd

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