[governance] Fnancial economy of Internet freedom [was Political economy ....]

[Hanane Boujemi]

I am also very interested in this topic and I came across this article 3
years ago. I've skimmed through it again recently and it is still relevant:

http://nawaat.org/portail/2010/09/17/the-internet-freedom-fallacy-and-the-arab-digital-activism/

Hanane

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:42 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

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> On Thursday 07 May 2015 05:30 PM, Jefsey wrote:
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> At 11:46 07/05/2015, parminder wrote:
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> http://boundary2.org/2015/04/29/dissecting-the-internet-freedom-agenda/
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>
> Seems interesting. But what I am interested in first in in dissecting the
> financing of the internet freedom activists. Does someone knows something
> trustable to read in that area?
>
> When there is a meeting somewhere in the world, how civil society members
> happen to be there? Who does actually pull the string wallets and wallet
> strings? Who does foot the civil society bill?
>
> Just to know how politically (un)correct should my association be to
> qualify? And where to apply?
>
>
> Yes, JFC, this is perhaps the single most important issue - to try to
> understand and perhaps apply corrective pressures on the current IG
> related civil society (CS) configuration... But unfortunately the involved
> CS is unable to build any kind of consensus on this all important issue, or
> to act on it... It is so surprising that a sector whose raison d'etre is to
> seek accountability from all those who are powerful itself refuses to to be
> held accountable. In fact, raising this issue in these civil society groups
> has attracted most vile responses, as for instance Norbert faced a year or
> two back.
>
> My organisation has proposed to some key players to set up a online
> register of  some kind for CS players in the IG space, on the lines of EU
> Transparency Register
> http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/homePage.do . But our
> discussions went nowhere.
>
> Once, again, I appeal  to key CS groups involved here to join efforts to
> develop such an online register. If it is needed for corporate lobbyists,
> it is today needed much more for CS groups as well. *My organisation is
> happy to take a lead to be the initial point of contact for those
> interested to develop such an initiative. Once there is an initial mass of
> groups/ individuals they can together choose an appropriate governance
> structure for the initiative. *
>
> So many IG documents to day speak of transparency among stakeholder
> groups, but little is done in practice (including the CSTD working group on
> IGF improvement, and the much celebrated Net Mundial document). CS must of
> course take the lead, and the conscience keeper of governance processes.
>
> parminder
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>
> jfc
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