On Friday 28 Nov 2008, vinay sreenivasa wrote: > Therefore, six civil society > organisations in India have proposed an open letter to the UN > Internet Governance Forum which meets for its third annual meeting > between 3rd and 6th December in Hyderabad. The letter exhorts urgent > global action to ensure that the public-ness and the egalitarian > nature of the Internet are preserved as its essential features. The > possibilities of democracy, equity and social justice in our > societies will be significantly impacted by the extent to which we > can achieve this objective. > [snip] > 1. Increasing corporatisation of the Internet > 2. Increasing proprietisation of standards and code that go into > building the Internet > 3. Increasing points of control being embedded into the Internet in > the name of security and intellectual property violations > 4. Huge democratic deficit in global Internet governance
Some hard facts reinforcing these statements and specific targets would be welcome. Otherwise it's too broad and too vague an agenda to be taken seriously. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
