[governance] Internet as a commons/ public good; was, Conflicts in Internet Governance

[Norbert Bollow]

Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:

> Agree. The second sentence does not follow from the first. The
> amended text, removing 'accordingly' will stand as:
> 
>    "We recognise the Internet as an emergent, and emerging, reality 
> consisting of hardware, protocols and software, human
> intentionality, and a new kind of social spatiality, brought together
> by a common set of design principles and constrained by policies
> fashioned by due democratic processes. The Internet is to be
> considered as a global commons and a global public good*. The design
> principles and policies that constitute the governance of the
> Internet should must flow from such recognition of  the Internet as a
> commons and a public good."

This part is pretty good already I think.

> (* Here we employ a wider socio-political meaning of a 'public good',
> as for instance articulated by Inge Kaul in her UNDP publication 
> <http://web.undp.org/globalpublicgoods/globalization/toc.html>,
> rather than the narrow construction employed by many neo- classical
> economists)

I think we should reword the last part a bit to make it sound less like
a criticism of economists.

How about for example:

"... rather than the narrower meaning often attached to the term in
contexts of economics."

?

Greetings,
Norbert

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