[governance] IGF closing ceremony speech

[Milton L Mueller]

Mawaki
Thanks for your note. I have certainly thought extensively about the issue you raise but in 5 minutes there is only so much you can say.  What I clearly did not say, anywhere or at any time, is that power inequalities will or could go away. Anyone who says that is either lying or woefully ignorant of human nature and human history. However, the opportunities for a more just and freedom-enhancing distribution of power increases, I think, in the newer political community that is being created.

Milton L Mueller
Laura J and L. Douglas Meredith Professor
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/

From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org<mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org> [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<mailto: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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