[governance] Re: [bestbits] Letters from Indian Civil Society organisations to the Chair of NetMundial regarding appointment of civil society co-chair

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

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On 10 April 2014 12:54:14 pm "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> Hi Parminder,
>
> I did respond last time you posted information on this several weeks back, 
> but let me respond again as this is escalating.
>
> Firstly, I agree with you and the Indian civil society groups that the 
> appointment and the way it was undertaken was less than optimal. I also 
> agree that far more experienced candidates in the area of internet 
> governance were available – including from India, and including women from 
> India.
>
> However, despite her inexperience in internet governance areas, Subi 
> Chaturvedi appears to be quite active in civil society issues, particularly 
> feminist issues. I am concerned that what is happening is that this is 
> becoming an increasingly personal attack on a young Indian woman whose only 
> “crime”, as far as I can see, is being ambitious. And there are plenty more 
> of us who share that.
>
> The newspaper article clearly was written with the assistance of some civil 
> society groups or members to discredit her. It is not regular “news”, and 
> may or may not be accurate in all of its assertions. However, it has the 
> elements of a personal attack.
>
> So I am personally uncomfortable with pursuing this any further, while 
> recognising that it was important for Indian NGOs to make the initial 
> contact with the Chair to express reservations. Someone has given less than 
> optimal advice to the Chair, and we may not have the best civil society rep 
> appointed, but I believe the most important thing now is not to pursue 
> personal attacks and to work as best we can during NetMundial in the 
> prevailing circumstances.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
>
>
>
> From: parminder Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:47 PM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net 
> Subject: [governance] Re: [bestbits] Letters from Indian Civil Society 
> organisations to the Chair of NetMundial regarding appointment of civil 
> society co-chair
>
>
> I wonder if civil society groups have any response to the below...
>
> this issue was first brought to the notice to global civil society groups a 
> few weeks back when almost all civil society organisations from India wrote 
> a letter against appointment of Subi as co chair of NetMundial... It was 
> most disappointing to face a stony silence from the global networks with 
> regard to that representation, which is indeed disrespectful of the Indian 
> civil society.
>
> Now, we have a newspaper report which not only produces evidence of 
> plagiarism against Subi but , much more importantly, also shows clearly who 
> is behind her installation as NetMundial Co chair - the US big business. 
> And still no response.
>
> May I request the IGC co-cos to take up this issue. And also 1Net steering 
> committee members, and civil society members of the executive committee and 
> high level committee.
> At least please respond to the issue.
>
> If civil society reps wont respond to this issue, I am not sure what they 
> would respond to, and in which manner they then 'represent' civil 
> society... Here there is practically the entire Indian civil society 
> involved in IG writing a representation, about issues that are now further 
> exacerbated by the news report in a top national daily of India. And we 
> find no visible support.
> Thanks
>
> parminder
>
> On Tuesday 08 April 2014 11:31 PM, Rishab Bailey wrote:
>
>   Dear All,
>
>   Further to the letter from Indian civil society groups to the Chair of 
>   NetMundial (regarding the appointment of the civil society co-chair for the 
>   meeting), please find attached:
>
>   (a) the original letter from members of Indian civil society to Prof. 
>   Virgilio Almeida,
>   (b) follow up email from members of Indian civil society to Prof. Virgilio 
>   Almeida;
>   (b) response of Prof. Almeida to Indian civil society groups.
>
>   Also do note a recent article published in a leading Indian newspaper 
>   giving some of the context behind this:  
>   http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/executive-of-telecom-giant-that-aided-nsa-spying-is-on-india-s-cyber-security-panel/article1-1205483.aspx
>
>   Two of the documents referred to in the above article (concerning 
>   plagiarism charges) are also attached to this email.
>
>   Regards,
>   Rishab Bailey
>   (for the Society for Knowledge Commons, India)
>
>
>
>
>
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