[governance] Inquiry for a new vision into the future of IGC

[Mehrzad Azghandi]

Thank you Norbert for your support

Mehrzad


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Good thoughts here, thanks.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
> Am Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:57:51 +0430
> schrieb Mehrzad Azghandi <mehrzad.azghandi at gmail.com>:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > As a new member of IGC, I wanted to express my honor to be a part of
> > this community and I hope to learn too much from all of you.
> >
> > Regarding the discussion topic of IGC's future, I am glad to use this
> > opportunity to share my opinion with a group of intelligent persons
> > at this critical point of Internet Society.
> >  In my opinion, IGC as well as many other IG communities is
> > experiencing a critical point which is a reflection of critical
> > situation of Information society on its current process of
> > development and widely expansion. The situation which can be a sort
> > of middle age crisis for internet society as I am going to explain it
> > here. The Middle-Age Crisis is going to be happened after 3 decades
> > of growth of Internet and its rapid penetrating by various features
> > of cybernetic world in every corner of human life. The great success
> > of technology and human intelligence has created an extensive
> > expectation to finally overcome our historical problems of poverty,
> > unemployment and unbelievable misery in many parts of the world. The
> > great hope for a better future for humankind in a global village as
> > we have talked and heard about during the past decades.
> >    So the development comes to the screen of any global pro-motive
> > programs ( as like as Istanbul event) for creating a new world, in
> > spite of uncertain conditions regarding the human rights and a lot of
> > civil society concerns as like as lazy logistic procedures , privacy
> > issues, digital fraud and  so on. It shold be warned, that if this
> > uncontrollable expansion and development procedure exceeds the actual
> > capacity of society, it suddenly turns to a danger for mankind and
> > the earth. At this middle-age, Internet expansive procedure has the
> > potential to destroy our dreams as well as the potential to survive
> > the earth and its inhabitants.  This is exactly where the necessity
> > of Internet Governance discussions comes to be crucial nowadays.
> >   I shorten the story since all you guys know it better than me and I
> > will go to the point that any further action in IG discussions and
> > plans should respect two essentially programs:
> >
> > 1- *Social capacity building* regarding IG concerns through public
> > medias for public people, who are the basis of  the information
> > society. People who should be able to represent themselves through
> > proper channels which is prepared by intelligent people like you, in
> > IGC. People need to be educated through any extensive program in
> > various level of literacy and knowledge regarding their vulnerability
> > facing with a unilateral development in cybernetic world. People
> > needs to be educated and know how to participate in procedure of
> > governance and how to share their concerns. I believe, it would be
> > great, if IGC opens a chapter for educating people in this area.
> >  Increasing the number of civil society activists is the golden key in
> > bottom-up dealing with Governments, edge companies and market
> > developers ,etc.
> >
> > *2- Customer Protection in Best Practices procedure*,
> >
> >     I agree with Mawaki that civil society and IGC is not going to
> > change the network architecture; and also redefinition of networks in
> > the way that JFC is looking for, is not only impossible, but
> > dangerous for daily life of people.
> >
> >  But still civil society should find the best solutions in dealing
> > with big brothers. Customer Protection based on the Human rights,
> > respecting to lingual, cultural, professional, regional and national
> > features of end-users should be respected by all of edge companies,
> > Governments and market developers, etc.
> >
> >  Any individual have right to, and should be able to dominate his/her
> > environment encountering with cyber world according to his personal
> > perspective; and any giant service makers in this space should
> > understand that respecting these individual expectations will
> > increase their market capacity and development goals and so on. This
> > is a sample of best practice in field of customer protection,  which
> > I suggest to be followed in future.
> >
> > Regards
> > Mehrzad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Members,
> > >
> > > This is an informal inquiry I would like to launch to hear from IGC
> > > members or list subscribers and collect your ideas about where we
> > > should go from here, as the Internet Governance Caucus.
> > >
> > > Particularly, please share your thoughts as to whether, in this
> > > context of IG or Information Society more broadly, civil society
> > > needs an analogue to what ICC BASIS
> > > (http://www.iccwbo.org/advocacy-codes-and-rules/basis/) is doing
> > > for business, and if so, what this would need to be like.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your cooperation.
> > >
> > >  Mawaki
> > >
> > >
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*Mehrzad Azghandi*
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