Two recent reports I read tend to reinforce my views on the Internet Governance circus. The emphasis below is mine. For example:
After the first day of the two-day internet shindig in São Paulo, Brazil – the Global Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the future of Internet Governance – a sense of resignation was building in those who thought "this time, yes this time, the wrongs will be righted, the walls broken down and internet users will be heard". *It hasn't happened. And the internet governance professionals who spend every other month in a different country repeating the same platitudes until they start to believe them have triumphed again.* Despite everyone's best efforts, NetMundial is a damp squib. But you have to admire the process. I spent the evening in the top corner of an expensive hotel drinking not-bad Malbec delivered for free by waiters while straining to hear the deliberations of two small groups redrafting the final document of NetMundial. Want more? See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/25/internet_global_multistakeholder_meeting_on_the_future_of_internet_governance I'd also recommend this as well: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/28/internet-diplomacy-netmundial
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