[governance] "US Exceptionalism" (was Re: Bloomberg - The Overzealous Prosecution...)

[Koven Ronald]

Dear All --


I really don't understand the clubbish attachment to jargonesque acronymism. Avri may consider it cute to spell out US, but someone who doesn't spontaneously know what WCIT stands for isn't necessarily stupid or unworthy of participation in the IGC, whatever that stands for.


In the journalism world, it is standard that the first time an organization is mentioned in an article its acronym is spelled out. I don't think anyone tosses aside the NYTimes because it makes itself accessible to a larger segment of its readership than the inside dopester cognoscenti.


Bests, Rony Koven



-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
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Cc: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org> <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>; "Kleinwächter, Wolf
 gang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>; McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>; Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>
Sent: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 3:18 am
Subject: Re: [governance] "US Exceptionalism" (was Re: Bloomberg - The Overzealous Prosecution...)


If this is in the context of Norbert's requesting that we all use less acronyms, 
this is somewhat like  saying we need to teach maths without using confusing 
terms like, say, pi, sigma etc which are, to be honest, all greek to most people 
that first encounter them.

Maybe work with Diplo or someone to conduct some sort of capacity building for 
civil society?

--srs (iPad)

On 24-Jan-2013, at 4:17, "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> !!!!!!!!
> 
> AoC ?
> ATRT ?
> JPA ?
> 
> !!!!!!!!
> 


 
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