[governance] FW: [ciresearchers] Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA) is an IRTF initiative

[McTim]

Michael,


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:44 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> This was just sent to the Community Informatics elist by an old
> friend/colleague who has been working in the grassroots ICT trenches since
> there were such and probably before (currently mostly with  US Amerindian
> folks in New Mexico...
>
>
>
> It rather sums up my response to Andrew (and I'm looking forward to
> Andrew's response to me... i.e. it is isn't simply about substituting one
> inadequate system of governance for another one which seems to have its own
> (and potentially worse sets of inadequacies and limitations) but rather of
> finding ways forward to deepen and enrich what we already have with what we
> now have come into possession of...
>
>
>


I agree completely with what you write above.  However, I think that you
feel that the Westphalian system of "democracy" is what we "have now",
while many of us on these lists feel that MSism is what we "have now".



-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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