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

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Increasing the digital divide more like - the fastest clouds would be in
the most developed countries and thus the entire "cloud computing
investment" will go: to the most developed countries.

Unless the less developed ones are able to pull up excellent network speeds
and stable datacenters.

How many people here would choose CtrlS over Softlayer(Theplanet)?

-C

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK
<jlfullsack at orange.fr>wrote:

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> Isn't this a joke :
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> ........For these reasons, industry representatives suggested the
> following activities:
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> > · U.S-Japan collaboration for establishing an international framework to
> support cloud computing.
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> > · Promoting the use of cloud computing in developing countries and
> reducing the digital divide.
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> Either these prominent experts from Japan and US never were staying in
> African countries or they try to make us laughing ! I imagine the worries
> of Internet users in these countries with cloud based Internet networking
> in Cameroons or in Senegal (and a lot of others). For sure : they won't
> laugh at all !
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> Best
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> Jean-Louis Fullsack
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> > Message du 22/10/12 09:44
> > De : "parminder"
> > A : governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> > Copie à :
> > Objet : Re: [governance] U.S. - Japan Policy Cooperation Dialogue on the
> Internet Economy
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> On Sunday 21 October 2012 09:50 PM, Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:
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> 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.
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> http://www.yumanewsnow.com/index.php/news/latest/1450-u-s-japan-policy-cooperation-dialogue-on-the-internet-economy
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> > From the agreement text:
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> Encouraging other countries to develop principles consistent with the
> “United States-Japan Trade Principles for Information and Communication
> Technology Services.
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> > SNIP
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> >
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> ........For these reasons, industry representatives suggested the
> following activities:
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> > · U.S-Japan collaboration for establishing an international framework to
> support cloud computing.
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> > · Promoting the use of cloud computing in developing countries and
> reducing the digital divide.
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> > · Considering a range of policy issues, including: privacy, cloud
> computing security, digital content, interoperability, and portability.
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> > (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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