Once again, users are ignored. Thank the Gods that Karl Auerbach once again is here to point it out. How unfortunate that the UN has fallen into the same trap that doomed ICANN from the start.
Below are my latest comments for the UN's Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG).
(A few typos have been corrected.)
Comments of
Karl Auerbach
Former North American Elected Director, ICANN
http://www.cavebear.com/
karl@cavebear.com
Regarding the document working definition of internet
governance, posted at http://www.wgig.org/docs/WorkingDefinition.pdf:
In the second paragraph the listed participants in this
system of governance are:
- governments
- the private sector
- civil society
- international organizations.
Sadly, this list does not include living, breathing,
thinking people.
Has the concept of governance fallen so low that people no
longer have a place?
Why should legal fictional persons (i.e. corporations)
receive seats via "the private sector" while those who ultimately endure and
suffer the burdens of governance and who ultimately pay the price of governance,
the individual people of the nations of the Earth, are excluded?
The claim has been made many times that "people don't [need]
entrée into the halls of internet governance because they are represented by
their respective government[s]." Were
that claim true then "the private sector" and "civil society" would also
be represented by their governments.
Do we really want the internet to be regulated through a
system of governance that is based on preference for some and exclusion of
others?
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