"Messengers" from a dead friend

> >Hello Michael > >Hi Don, How are things? M > >Great! > >How are you? > >I'm well had a bit of a bout last year but over that now. How are >things in Chicago? > >Great! > >Hope you also heard the good news > >No, what is that? > >Just wondering if

For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance"

For those who wanted to "give Trump a chance" it seems he is out of chances already : For those finding it difficult to keep up - here's a run down of the week so far To recap: * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ's Violence Against Women programs. * On January

Re: Protocols and Crises

In fact, I believe that "protocol power" is the precise opposite of multistakeholderism where MSism is always and necessarily ad hoc, temporary, localized and where "showing up" (with the resources and staying power to keep showing up) is the source of power in a MS environment. "Protocol power"

The Trump Speech

There has been, in other contexts, an on-going discussion as to whether Trump's evident rejection of the post-war neo-liberal order is sufficient reason to applaud his victory given that Hillary's win would have further entrenched neo-liberalism as the necessary framework for capitalism going

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

The emerging explanation for Trump seems be of the misogyny or racism of a significant portion of the US population. That may or may not be true (I rather think that a portion of those voting for Trump were racist/misogynist but by no means all). What is overlooked in all of this discussion

A Picture is Worth...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/malaysia-airlines-flight-17-russia.html MOSCOW — A group of arms control researchers have determined that two images released by the Russian government, ostensibly to help

Tech Millionaires vs. Tech Billionaires (guess who is winning... And why it matters to the rest of us

(Open letter from Nick Denton (Gawker) to Peter Thiel (PayPal, Facebook etc.) who evidently has been bankrolling the legal hell ($125 mill and counting) that Gawker has been experiencing around the Hulk Hogan privacy lawsuit.

Multistakeholderism in full action

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-controlled/article8581476.ece A borderless economy that will be controlled Parminder Jeet Singh Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has proposed a new business-led initiative for framing global

The Canadian upending how the IMF thinks about the economy

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/the-canadian-upending-how-the-imf-thinks-about-the-economy/?google_editors_picks=true The Canadian upending how the IMF thinks about the economy The head of the IMF research department, Jonathan Ostry, on why countries with the fiscal space to

Re: Guardian > Monbiot > Neoliberalism -- the ideology at

To add to these distinguished commentaries... I think that in examining "neo-liberalism" as an ideology it is worthwhile to also see it as a political program with quite direct real world correlates and moreover one which for a significant period of time was dominant in the World Bank and the IMF

Re: 'responsible' handling of the Panama Papers

Excellent, Ted. I think what the "responsible" journalists don't get is that this isn't about criminal wrong-doing (well some of it is). The problem at its base isn't about whether folks did or did not break the law but rather that the law itself is wrong (most certainly the result of

In Plain Sight: The Alliance for an Affordable Internet: Discussion Summation

The below has been adapted from the original blogpost (with very extensive links/referencing) at: https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/the-a4ai-discussion-a-summation/ As some of you will know I recently published a blogpost which presents a detailed critique of the A4AI (the Alliance for

From Twitter -- Trump Channels Mussolin

(from) Donald J. Trump Verified account þ@realDonaldTrump "@ilduce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain" # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, #

Other News - Why The European Periphery Needs A Post-Euro Strategy

It appears that Germany is proposing to impose similar regimes to those of Greece on other of the "periphery" countries at an accelerated pace. M Why The European Periphery Needs A Post-Euro Strategy Thomas Fazi - Social Europe In recent weeks, Germany has put forward two proposals for the

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

Sorry to intrude in this Euro-centric (myopic) discussion but just as DIEM25 was being presented Bernie Sanders was winning the New Hampshire primary for the US Democratic party nomination on the basis of rebuilding US democracy and being a facilitator of a "democratic revolution" and "socialism"

Re: [governance] VW

y is a part of the process, it is a lot easier to control and implement the outcome than it is by pursuing the current TPP and TISA model. M -Original Message- From: David Cake [mailto:d...@difference.com.au] Sent: September 28, 2015 10:48 AM To: governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; Michael Gurstein

FW: VW

er 27, 2015 12:08 PM To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: Re: VW On 25 Sep 2015, at 20:59, Michael Gurstein wrote: > Thanks Ted, very useful. > > I guess what I'm curious about is the motivations, individual and/or > corporate thought process

Re: VW

Thanks Ted, very useful. I guess what I'm curious about is the motivations, individual and/or corporate thought processes/incentives etc. that underlie the initial decision to go down this path and then the multitude of decisions at various levels up and down the organization to continue on this

A Canadian Election Programme for Digital Citizenship and Social Equity

https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/a-canadian-programme-for-digital-c itizenship-and-social-equity/ A Canadian Election Programme for Digital Citizenship and Social Equity The Internet and digital technologies have gone from exotic to commonplace in the blink of an eye. The Internet and

Corporate Ad Mocking Burning Man's Corporate Influence Is So Accurate That Burning Man Might Sue

http://sfist.com/2015/09/11/this_corporate_ad_mocking_burning_m.php A new advertisement that mocks Burning Man's corporate influences and was itself produced by sandwich company Quizno's (as a faux-installment of The Maze Runner movie franchise) is so meta and self-aware as to be

nettime Fwd: ZNet Commentary: Joe Emersberger: Europe's Democratic Deficit

-- Forwarded message -- From: ZCommunications michael.alb...@zmag.org Date: Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM Subject: ZNet Commentary: Joe Emersberger: Europe's Democratic Deficit Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Joe Emersberger:

nettime Flashmob choir interrupts TTIP congress - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2015/07/03/flashmob-choir-interrupts-ttip.html The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a secret EU/US trade agreement that puts the right to profit above all other rights, in the words of one MEP. Like its cousin, the Trans Pacific

nettime FW: Other News - How the World’s

From: english-boun...@other-news.info [mailto:english-boun...@other-news.info] On Behalf Of engl...@other-news.info Sent: May 8, 2015 3:41 PM To: english Subject: Other News - How the World's Largest Psychological Association Aided the CIA's Torture Program Image removed

nettime Another Example of Multistakeholder Governance in

With links (which are probably necessary to make useful sense of the argument below) see: https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/another-example-of-multistakeholder-governance-in-action-the-global-cyberspace-15-unicorn/ http://tinyurl.com/ptxatgy Michael Gurstein

nettime FW: [P2P-F] Greek Vice-President explicitely endorses commons strategy before parliament

(with permission) From: Eleftherios Kosmas [mailto:elkos...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 2:48 PM To: michael gurstein Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Greek Vice-President explicitely endorses commons strategy before parliament Hi guys. I checked the speech of Mr

nettime The Caravan Has Set Out for a Neo-liberal Capture of Global Governance

Here is another take on the current state of play in Internet Governance. http://justnetcoalition.org/NMI-neoliberal-caravan M The Caravan Has Set Out for a Neo-liberal Capture of Global Governance (With governance of the Internet as the path being broken first) The Just Net Coalition1 (JNC)

nettime FW: Blogpost: Smart Cities vs. Smart Communities: Enabling Markets or Empowering Citizens

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/smart-cities-vs-smart-communities-e nabling-markets-or-empowering-citizens/ Hmmm.. So Smart Cities particularly in Less Developed Countries are ways of turning urban environments into gold mines for consultants, hardware and software companies and redoing

nettime The future of Airbnb in cities

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Travel_Transportation/The_future_of_Airbnb_ in_cities?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1411 Since its founding, in 2008, Airbnb has spearheaded growth of the sharing economy by allowing thousands of people around the world to rent their homes or spare rooms. Yet

nettime social media political activism redux

A problem with all of this is that the ???hand???s off the Internet??? position is at the very core of a neo-liberal take down of the social contract. The Internet erodes local tax bases, shifts wealth from the poor to the rich, from poor countries to rich ones; and the rallying cry for

nettime Ooh-la-la, the French Get (Inter)Net Neutrality Right: It's All About the Platform Monopolies-Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc.

About the Platform Monopolies-Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc. Michael Gurstein @michaelgurstein Amidst all the storm and thunder surrounding the ever-elusive Net Neutrality (NN) (the FCC call for comments on NN elicited some 1.1 million interventions), the actual point of the exercise

Re: nettime [SPAM] Re: More Crisis in the Information Society

I am finding it very interesting if a bit discombobulating to see my initial provocation turned into the stuff of common room chat. As one who has only one or two tremulous toes dipped in the sacred waters of academe the self-absorption that this represents is quite astonishing if not deeply

nettime FW: Blogpost: The-information-society-is-in-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it

(Links and comments... http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/the-information-society-is-in-crisi s-and-what-to-do-about-it/ http://tinyurl.com/oehhx8q (These are notes for an address given as part of a Plenary Panel on Governing Digital Spaces: Issues of Access, Privacy and

nettime More Crisis in the Information Society

Pando.com: New San Francisco billboard warns workers they'll be replaced by iPads if they demand a fair wage http://tinyurl.com/mn2xzzn # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text

nettime Facebook Does Mind Control

With links and comments: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/facebook-does-mind-control/ Facebook Does Mind Control Michael Gurstein News is coming out about Facebook initiated and largely conducted social research experiment examining the effects of various types of emotionally loaded

Re: nettime [SPAM] Re: tensions within the bay area elites

Glad to see Google getting it's due but I'm wondering if the deeper significance and risk posed by Google isn't being a wee bit overlooked here... In a blogpost I did about a year ago, I was pointing to Google's victory in an anti-trust action which was being interpreted as a victory for free

nettime Just Net Coalition publication: Delhi declaration and related articles

Moving forward the necessary discussion on a political economy of the Internet the essays pointed to below were compiled for NETmundial http://netmundial.br/ ? The Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance meeting about to start in S?o Paulo discussing the future of

nettime Blogpost: The Multistakeholder Model, Neo-liberalism and Global (Internet) Governance

(with links) http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/the-multistakeholder-model-neo-libe ralism-and-global-internet-governance/ http://t.co/EU8F1LgUn6 The Multistakeholder Model, Neo-liberalism and Global (Internet) Governance Michael Gurstein I've commented elsewhere on the sudden

nettime Larry Strickling: ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to Sao Paulo, and Beyond

ICANN - Singapore Non-Commercial Users Constituency ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to Sao Paulo, and Beyond 21 March 2014 KEYNOTE ASSESSMENT BY LARRY STRICKLING, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMISSIONERS, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES BILL DRAKE: So I think probably,

Re: nettime an historic retreat

Dear Nettimers: There is a very much bigger game afoot where issues concerning the NTIA/ICANN etc.etc. are mere pawns on the chessboard. The NTIA announcement has to be seen in the context of the NetMundial meeting to be convened in Brazil at the end of April and where the NTIA announcement

nettime FW: An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All: A Community Informatics Declaration

An Internet for the Common Good: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1099/1065 Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All A Community Informatics Declaration Effective use of the Internet will benefit everyone. Currently the benefits of the Internet are distributed unequally:

Re: nettime So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World

: michael gurstein Subject: Re: nettime So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World dear michael, dear friends, Am 02.01.14 06:06, schrieb michael gurstein: Whether we will live in a world where one country and its 5 allies have access to all worthwhile information which allows them

nettime Mandela/Madiba

As we recognize, mourn and celebrate Mandela/Madiba it might be worthwhile to circulate and examine the http://www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=188939 draft South Africa ICT Policy Framing paper www.info.gov.za/view/DownloadFileAction?id=188939 This paper, I've been told by a

nettime FW: Internet Justice: A Meme Whose Time Has Come

and of equitable benefit to all. Comments, suggestions, edits, additions, endorsement gratefully encouraged. Tweet: #internetjustice Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Executive Director: Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (CCIRDT) Vancouver, BC CANADA tel/fax: +1-604-602-0624

nettime Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance

With links http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/internet-freedom-and-post-snowden-g lobal-internet-governance/ http://tinyurl.com/n3onw87 Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance: Michael Gurstein The big story for the 2012 Internet Governance Forum in Baku

nettime In an Internetworked World No One Is Foreign

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/in-an-internetworked-world-no-one-is-foreign In an Internetworked World No One Is Foreign by http://gurstein.wordpress.com/author/gurstein/ Michael Gurstein As everyone knows there have been some startling and shocking revelations concerning

nettime FW: House of Cards

This represents a breakthrough of sort perhaps breakthroughs in several directions. Note that my only connection to House of Cards is to have watched the episodes on Netflix. M from: friendsofeliel [mailto:friendsofel...@gmail.com] sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 1:47 PM to:

nettime Google Wins Anti-Trust Case

From: Dave Farber [mailto:d...@farber.net] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 5:35 AM To: ip Subject: [IP] Google???s Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/technology/googles-lawyers-work-behind-the-scenes-to-carry-the-day.html?hp

nettime FW: Hmmmm... Google: Internet Freedom!... (from taxes?

http://vrritti.com/2012/11/23/australian-minister-provides-detailed-explanat ion-of-tax-evasion-by-google-apple-and-others/ http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/15431664/france-says-google-would- lose-court-case-over-taxes/

nettime Another perspective on Google`s `net freedom` initiative

For another perspective on Google`s `net freedom` initiative. M From: governance-requ...@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-requ...@lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of parminder Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:50 PM To: governa...@lists.igcaucus.org Subject: Re: [governance] Google's

nettime World's First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action

World http://torrentfreak.com/worlds-first-flying-file-sharing-drones-in-action-1 20320/ 's First Flying File-Sharing Drones in Action http://torrentfreak.com/worlds-first-flying-file-sharing-drones-in-action-12 0320/ A few days ago The Pirate Bay announced that in future parts of its site

nettime Election Monitors Coming to U.S.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/263141-international-monitors-at-pollin g-places-draw-criticism-from-voter-fraud-group Election Monitors Coming to U.S. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations partner on democratization and human rights projects,

nettime FW: The ITU/WCIT: Thinking About Internet Regulatory Policy From An LDC Perspective?

Note, this flows from a discussion that initially took place on a listserve sponsored by ISOC on Internet Policy. I'm also putting all of this below up on my blog http://gurstein.wordpress.com where those with an interest might wish to carry forward this discussion and where relevant links can be

nettime Orlov: Shale gas the view from Russia

http://peakoil.com/production/orlov-shale-gas-the-view-from-russia/ (Somehow this seems relevent... Orlov: Shale gas the view from Russia The official shale gas story goes something like this: recent technological breakthroughs by US energy companies have made it possible to tap an abundant but

nettime Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters

Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters For links etc. http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/two-worlds-of-open-government-data- getting-the-lowdown-on-public-toilets-in-chennai-and-other-matters/ TinyURL http://wp.me/pJQl5-98

Re: nettime What do you think about .art?

While not disagreeing with Ted's overall pessimism as to the likely outcome of this particular development it is well to note that the announcement indicated that the decision was being made on behalf of the global internet community. Further, a key stated justification for the decision was NTIA's

nettime Vancouver Sun: Beijing outclasses London in managing Murdoch

Jonathan Manthorpe's coverage of Asia is the very best reason to subscribe to and read the Vancouver Sun! And this one is a beaut! M http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Beijing+outclasses+London+managing+Murd

nettime Blogpost: Open - Necessary but not Sufficient

and the parallel dangers of a very damaging and socially divisive Data Divide avoided. (For this blogpost with extensive links and comments http://wp.me/pJQl5-7h) Posted on July 6, 2011 Michael Gurstein Vancouver, Canada # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission

Re: nettime Are the Open Data Warriors Fighting for Robin Hood or the Sheriff?: Some Reflections on OKCon 2011 and the Emerging Data Divide

Thanks Flick and David... Flick**your linking of the discussion to the Canadian Access to Information law is very interesting and I think appropriate, and usefully shifts the emphasis from the tech to the policy (where I think it should in large part be... David**you very sardonically do the

nettime Blogpost: Louder Voices and Learning Networks

Louder Voices and Learning Networks http://wp.me/pJQl5-76 Posted on June 25, 2011 by Michael Gurstein There is a stream of contemporary thought (with which I generally agree) which sees knowledge as being largely produced and disseminated by and through networks. That is, networks-social

nettime Darpa's Living Foundries

Bryan Bishop kanz...@gmail.com Jun 07 02:26PM -0500 ^ https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/DARPA-SN-11-44/listing.html Synopsis: Added: Jun 03, 2011 4:42 pm Special Notice (SN) DARPA-SN-11-44 SUBJECT: Living Foundries Industry Day DATE: June 28, 2011 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 21, 2011