[governance] More on the GCCS 2015

[Arzak Khan]

Hi All, 


It was for the first time that I participated in such an event
and my take on the overall conference which I also raised in one of the panel
discussions i.e. Privacy was that while addressing the issue of privacy and
security majority of the people were pointing fingers at the governments i.e.
NSA, GCHQ etc. and hoping to fix the cancer by proposing or calling for new
laws, frameworks and treaties. No one at the event questioned the role played
by the private companies in the mass surveillance programs for the likes of
Google sharing petabytes of data with NSA and claiming to be protector of
internet freedom is hard to swallow. I was not entirely sure that passing new
laws and regulations will fix the issue or stop these growing monopolies from
mass surveillance as the very fabric of internet architecture is based on the
concept of big data and reconnaissance.


The terms like “information freedom” and “multistakeholderism”
all looks very good and shimmering at the surface but underneath it is the dark
world where states are in battle for control of economic, political and social
power. The new age communication technology allows the developed countries to leverage
them for their own gains and political agenda far more strongly than the Global
South and at times against them.  The
growing drive to control the internet i.e. primarily by economic and
geopolitical motivations rather than by the humanitarian and democratic standards
should ring bells for people having interest internet governance as  this event highlighted the geopolitical contest
between few major international actors while rest of us were the participants
or subjects witnessing twenty-first-century statesmanship and international
relations.


Best,


Arzak Khan Director |Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan (iPOP) | Tel +92 81 9211464 | Twitter: @internetpolicyp |Web: www.ipop.org.pk |


From: gurstein at gmail.com
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:12:40 -0700
Subject: [governance] More on the GCCS 2015

http://t.co/tzT7PkFgys http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/20/gccs_2015_roundup?mt=1429629533557 Interesting perspective and more information … So what precisely was “CS” doing at this meeting and having their participation presented as being in “general agreement” with the Chairman’s Report and (and thus legitimizing) the entire process and outcome of this unicorn? Can we take silence as indicating consent from the participating “CS” organizations and individuals?  M   
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