[governance] IGF closing ceremony speech

[michael gurstein]

Thanks for this Mawaki and I agree.

 

I think what people like Milton miss in the IG discussion is the issue of
"power"... Who has it, how to get it, what the folks who have it currently
use it for or are likely to use it for in the future.

 

Governance is as much about controlling those with power or attempting to
redistribute power as it is about anything else.  To willfully ignore the
power issues in IG is to more or less completely misrepresent/misunderstand
the most significant issues.

 

M

 

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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Mawaki Chango
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 2:41 PM
To: Internet Governance; Milton L Mueller
Subject: Re: [governance] IGF closing ceremony speech

 

Milton,

Thanks for sharing this. I just read the speech and I find it insightful.
Well done! I didn't know there was a dreamer hiding behind those piercing
eyes :)

Now on a serious note, the challenge is to suppress the kind of inequalities
and power imbalances that characterize the national state universe while
building that rising Internet nation and claiming its independence. While
the lines of demarcation of inequalities and imbalances will be different
from the (physical) territorial universe to the cyber-universe, I am less
optimistic about them (inequalities and imbalances) going away. Certainly
not by themselves or by the virtue of the Internet's architecture and
features. And as says Aristotle, "All virtue is summed up in dealing
justly."

 

Anyway, good job for sounding the note of singularity and diversity in civil
society viewpoints!

 

Mawaki




 

 

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

Dear colleagues:

As you probably know by now, both Burcu Kilic and I were accepted as closing
ceremony speakers. 

The text of my speech, which went over well, can be seen here:

http://www.internetgovernance.org/2014/09/05/internet-nation/

 

Thanks again to the CSCG for nominating us both. 

 

Milton L Mueller

Syracuse University School of Information Studies

http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/

Internet Governance Project

http://internetgovernance.org

 


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