[governance] Ban Ki-moon's lecture in Leiden 2013-08-28

[Norbert Bollow]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's delivered an interesting lecture at
Leiden University on August 28, with a significant emphasis on the
problem of Internet surveillance as seen from a good human rights based
perspective.

http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=7046

In my reading of this, Ban Ki-moon's main point is that fear is not a
good advisor. This is a point that I wholeheartedly agree with. (Those
who were at last year's BestBits gathering may recall that I made some
remarks about how way too much thinking about Internet governance is
driven by fear.)

I believe that we need to learn to treat the emotion of fear as a
signal that there is a need to do careful systemic analysis and that
there is a need for hope-inspiring solution proposals.

Dealing with with fear and hope in a logical manner may not be part of
classical logics, but is probably necessary for creating constructive
discourse processes in which all stakeholders are welcome to
participate and where the needs, views and concerns expressed by any
participant will be taken appropriately seriously.

Greetings,
Norbert

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1. Respond to the content of assertions and arguments, not to the person
2. Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept

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