[governance] US industrial gangs in action - blown open by Wikileaks

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Fri Nov 15 13:21:48 EST 2013


When I hear a lot of talk about the need of distributed IG under the 
enhanced cooperation (EC) rubric I really do not fully understand what 
is meant. The only legitimate distributed IG I know is of technical 
governance of the Internet - about which neither I have much problem 
with the status quo nor tunis agenda admits it under EC rubris. EC is 
about two things - 'oversight issue' and general public policy issues 
related to the Internet, neither of which is currently decentralised or 
distributed, nor I have heard any mechanism being suggested for 
decentralised/ distributed IG in these areas..... This really confuses 
me, especially since so many civil society contributions against WGEC 
questionnaire has suggested distributed governance without clarity about 
what it is really.

Now, the only sense in which I can see IG related to larger public 
policy issues being distributed is in it taking place in processes like 
TPP below, or in London-Budapest- Seoul cyber conference series, OECD, 
CoE and so on..... And that variety is of course not at all globally 
legitimate - apart from being closed, non transparent, non 
multistakeholder and so on...

I think there is a need to first bring more clarity to the terms of 
debate of this important discussion on the needed changes in global IG...

parminder


On Friday 15 November 2013 05:33 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> Incredible, TPP recreates the same ACTA secretive plot played and
> replayed by supposedly democratic governments. Neelie Kroes wrote last
> year (according to Wikipedia):
>
> "We have recently seen how many thousands of people are willing to
> protest against rules which they see as constraining the openness and
> innovation of the Internet. This is a strong new political voice. And as
> a force for openness, I welcome it, even if I do not always agree with
> everything it says on every subject. We are now likely to be in a world
> without SOPA and without ACTA. Now we need to find solutions to make the
> Internet a place of freedom, openness, and innovation fit for all
> citizens, not just for the techno avant-garde."
>
> Unlikely, Neelie, unlikely... This is driven by a giant multisectoral
> trillion-dollar IPR machine led by the USA with heavy European
> involvement affecting nearly all of our rights worldwide, and it will
> not stop.
>
> In our region, Mexico, wishing to be nice in the picture with the USA
> and being more royalist than the king, proposes in the TPP that
> copyrights last for a century instead of 70 years after death of the author.
>
> Frankly, I do not understand Peru's Ollanta Humala involved in this.
>
> So it goes...
>
> --c.a.
>
> On 11/15/2013 09:42 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
>> Reminder. Already signaled by Michael Gurstein.
>>
>> Wikileaks’  Release Of TPP Chapter On IP Blows Open Secret Trade Negotiation
>>
>> By William New, Intellectual Property Watch
>>
>> For years, the United States and partner governments have worked vigorously
>> to keep the publics they represent from knowing what they are negotiating
>> behind closed doors in the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
>> agreement. But today’s Wikileaks release of the draft intellectual property
>> chapter blew that up, confirming the fears of public interest groups that
>> this is an agreement heavily weighted toward big industry interests.
>>
>> “If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights
>> and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and
>> creative commons,” WikiLeaks’ Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange said in a
>> release. “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or
>> invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be
>> ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
>> . . .
>>
>> http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/11/13/wikileaks-release-of-tpp-chapter-on-ip-blows-open-secret-trade-negotiation/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
>>
>> https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html
>> - - -
>>
>> Hopefully TTP will take SOPA's trail.
>>
>> The next battlefield,
>> TTIP<http://www.euintheus.org/press-media/vice-president-viviane-reding-in-washington-spoke-about-the-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-and-data-protection/>,
>> shall put the EU Commission on a hot seat.
>>
>> Louis
>>

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