[governance] [bestbits] Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers

[Deirdre Williams]

Can we add those freedoms to what we are struggling for?
And commit individually and as a group to a "measured and balanced
response"?
I certainly hope so. And I do.
Deirdre

On 29 October 2015 at 09:29, Seth Johnson <seth.p.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Plus: the right to have root on your own general purpose computing
> device.  And to put your own keys there (rather than, say, Apple's).
>
>
> Seth
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Deirdre Williams
> <williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is why the "human right" that concerns me most at the moment is the
> > right to say no, the right to choose, the right to differ.
> > Somewhere the sense that we have the freedom NOT to click has got lost
> in a
> > compulsion that "this is the only way". "If I don't have Facebook I'll
> lose
> > touch with my family." "This is a 'must have' app". These statements are
> > still NOT TRUE, and we should not allow them to become true.
> > Admittedly when recently I posted a letter to Barbados, just over 100
> miles
> > away, I was told that the letter would arrive "in the next two weeks",
> but
> > it did arrive.
> > Without the internet the selection procedure which gave this thread its
> > subject would not have been possible within the time, but it would still
> > have been possible. Might have taken a year or two, but we could have
> done
> > it. :-)
> > We are supposed to be using the tool, not the tool using us.
> > We have a choice and we should exercise it before it atrophies and
> > disappears.
> > Deirdre
> >
> > On 29 October 2015 at 02:29, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Those are applications that
> >>
> >> 1. You choose to install
> >> 2. You choose to specifically grant those permissions to
> >>
> >> On 29-Oct-2015, at 11:28 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Avast CEO shared analysis done by company of top 100 applications on
> >> Android in the month of September.
> >>
> >> As per the analysis, 99 per cent of these applications have entire
> control
> >> of mobile phone which means they remotely operate phone as a user does
> and
> >> 92 per cent can view network connections.
> >>
> >> One out of 10 of top 100 applications can record audio and take pictures
> >> and videos and 9 out of 10 are able to read storage content which can
> modify
> >> or delete, as per the report.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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