[governance] Re: [bestbits] PRISM - is it about the territorial location of data or its legal ownership

[parminder]

On Tuesday 25 June 2013 02:44 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
>> What got to be done now? If we indeed are eager to do something, two
>> things (1) do everything to decentralise the global Internet's
>> architecture, and (2) get on with putting in place global norms,
>> principles, rules and where needed treaties that will govern our
>> collective Internet behaviour, and provide us with our rights and
>> responsibilities vis a vis the global Internet.
>>
>> But if there are other possible prescriptions, one is all ears.
> Alternatively, it may be possible and more easily feasible to
> re-engineer, to the extent necessary, the relevant technical standards
> and business systems, to make them meet the needs (including privacy
> needs etc.) of users, worldwide, reasonably well - even in the absence
> of full decentralization of the Internet's architecture.

Really open mandatory standards, for instance, for inter operability of 
social media platforms, is one key way to decentralise.... These are the 
kind of things that I meant by decentralising the Internet's 
architecture... parminder
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>


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