[governance] Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Wed Mar 27 01:04:04 EDT 2013


Exclusionary? That's yet another canard - or at least a gross
oversimplification of a rather more nuanced situation.

Meanwhile, try registering for and walking into an ICANN meeting anywhere
in the world, and see if you get excluded. No? I thought not ..

Jeremy Malcolm [27/03/13 11:43 +0800]:
>On 27/03/2013, at 11:25 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>
>> So the question remains - why does IT4Change keep trying to shortchange the
>> technical and academic community by
>>
>> 1. Claiming that it is not part of civil society
>>
>> 2. Questioning the credentials of those who identify / are identified as
>> members of that community?
>>
>> Surely it is time 4 a change in ITs attitude?
>
>
>Because the technical community keeps acting against the broader public interest by refusing to countenance any evolution to present exclusionary Internet governance arrangements.  Once the tech community changes its tune, I'm sure so will those who are calling it out (which is hardly just IT for Change).
>
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