[governance] More on the GCCS 2015

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Fairly well seen from your "observatory", dear Arzak Khan  :-)

 

Thanks for this short but useful reminder.

 

Best regards

 

Jean-Louis Fullsack

 

 

 

 

> Message du 22/04/15 09:07
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Hi All,


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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.


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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.


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Best,


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

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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
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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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