[governance] Perspectives (was Re: Fwd: And Now the Second Battle of the Internet)

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

So for example (for clarity, mainly for me) I may say I'm a third worlder
(from India) as well as a third worldist (trying to focus on improving the
developing nations overall) and this would be noted on the wiki? So that
someone who understands that viewpoint would be able to sympathize/'get' my
point better, and someone who does not get that viewpoint would be perhaps
able to reconcile differences and ask questions accordingly?

-C


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "Mapping"? More detail please Nobert, there's newbies (like me) here
> > so not everyone may understand the technical terms... :)
>
> Here's a quick attempt at explaining in somewhat more detail what I
> meant:
>
> Since a significant aspect of what has recently caused heated words and
> hostility on this list seems to have been (a) misunderstandings and
> invalid assumptions about viewpoint of other participants, and (b)
> references to other participants' viewpoints that were understood by
> others to be derogatory and/or otherwise offensive, I propose that it
> would be helpful to increase our mutual understanding of what our
> various viewpoints (I use this term broadly in this email, it is
> intended to include what I have previously referred to as “perspectives”
> and “interests”) are, e.g. by means of an online wiki that documents
> many of them.
>
> As mentioned recently, Sala and I have been discussing setting up a
> wiki for the IGC which would give everyone with an igcaucus.org
> account a personal homepage in relation to the IGC.
>
> I might use that to note e.g. that my viewpoint is broadly a “social
> liberal” one (this might be linked to a wiki page that briefly
> explains what that means in the context of Internet governance). I
> might add that my perspective is significantly shaped by having a
> technical background, by living in a small European country which is not
> part of the EU and which is going through uncomfortable experiences of
> being put under severe pressure by more powerful countries, and by
> having a Kenyan friend who is a pastor among poor people in Kenya.
>
> The main part of the “mapping” exercise would be a wiki page that lists
> the various broad categories of viewpoints and links to the IGC wiki
> homepages of those who have chosen to self-identify with one of them.
>
> The benefits of such a “map of viewpoints” would include
> - making it easier to refer to viewpoints of IGC participants without
>   risk of unintendedly sounding derogatory (after all if I have
>   endorsed a particular label as referring to a kind of viewpoint that
>   I share, it shouldn't be viewed as offensive when that label is then
>   used in reference to the kind of views that I have been advocating.)
> - making it reasonably easy to get some background understanding
>   on arguments presented by another IGC participant - such background
>   understanding can be provided e.g. by links to theoretical treatises
>   on particular viewpoints, by explaining the particular perspectives
>   and experiences that have significantly contributed to shaping a
>   particular viewpoint, etc.
> - documenting the breadth of viewpoints represented in IGC
>
> Of course it is possible that maybe multiple people all choose to
> self-identify in the same way, even while fundamentally disagreeing
> with each other. Such disagreements could also be documented in a “map
> of civil society viewpoints and perspectives”.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would be glad if this happened, we could get a lot more done if
> > > > people didn't try to divide us with first vs third world rhetoric.
> > >
> > > Some remarks have been devoid of any substantive content, while
> > > others point (even if somewhat imprecisely) to real differences in
> > > perspective and interests.
> > >
> > > A mapping exercise in regard to these different perspectives and
> > > interests might be helpful - provided that we are able to agree on
> > > the basic premise that everyone has the right to make their own
> > > decision on what perspective they choose to adopt.
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Norbert
>
> --
> Recommendations for effective and constructive participation in IGC:
> 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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