[governance] How to address political economy issues? (was Re: Internet as a commons/public good)

[Riaz K Tayob]

Parminder

I think here I would ask you to trust your intuition. There are serious 
limits to dialogue on this IGC platform, much improved recently despite 
denunciations of its caustic nature, even though it has improved much 
recently.

As McTim kindly pointed out about the dominance of 'single rooters' 
confirms minority status of certain groups. You pointed out the 
difficulty of discussing net neutrality in this forum, etc. From this 
one can glean these limits and /complementary/ fora are needed to deepen 
analysis. IGC relevance in this context may confirm your irrelevance.

Would be glad to discuss this offlist further with you and others of 
like minded persuasion. This is not detract from recent changes. But 
strategic engagement may be more fruitful.

Riaz

On 2013/05/04 08:45 AM, parminder wrote:
> It is fine if this is the interpretation of what IGC is, not much of 
> an advocacy group but a kind of an open platform or forum for civil 
> society groups. And I am increasingly inclined or maybe resigned to 
> this perspective. But that still begs an organised constituency and 
> group at the global level that can systematically deal with Internet 
> governance issues pertaining to social and economic justice. This is 
> the gap that I spoke about in my previous email.
>
> parminder

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