[governance] URGENT: Last call for feedback on CS participation in NETmundial Initiative

[Norbert Bollow]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:23:08 +0100
"Louis Pouzin (well)" <pouzin at well.com> wrote:

> Yesterday in Geneva we heard a WEF presentation by a well seasoned
> professional. It's crystal clear that WEF is a cleverly crafted lure
> to spot SC weak links and inform their sponsors in big business..

One aspect of that presentation that was maybe not well understood by
all was the use of the acronym “ODA”, which stands for “Official
Development Assistance”, i.e. money coming from more prosperous
countries which has the objective of assisting other countries with
advancing their development. In my opinion, such money should be used
for building infrastructure that is afterwards treated as a public
good. By contrast, WEF is calling for all such money to go into private
sector pockets to make the private sector build infrastructure that is
then considered to be the private property of corporations. (This was
not said explicitly, but it was implied in what the WEF representative
-- the same person who also represents WEF in NMI -- said about “ODA”.)

The relevance of this to the present thread is that it is one aspect of
the kind of ideology which makes us in JNC want to keep our distance,
and which makes us think that other civil society persons and civil
society groups should take a similar stance.

Greetings,
Norbert
co-convenor, Just Net Coalition (JNC)

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