On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you mean exactly by "second-tier thought-leaders"?
I mean that, in ITU politics, there are basically three camps: the OECD country
camp, the China-Saudi Arabia camp, and the undecided, our-votes-are-for-sale
camp. I can explain the positions of each of these camps in more detail if
you're not familiar with the ITU or what it's about. Brazil, South Africa,
India (and Russia, to round out the BRICS) are firmly in the "undecided" camp,
voting in support of the Internet in some cases, against it in others. In each
case, these countries have regional influence over a set of other undecided
countries, that tend to follow their vote relatively indiscriminately. This is
far less true of the members of the two "decided" camps; there aren't, for
instance, a set of countries that are otherwise-undecided about the benefits of
the Internet, that vote with, say, Canada, indiscriminately. With regard to
Brazil, the important thing to understand is that it's the foreign ministry of
the Brazilian federal government that decides Brazil's ITU voting strategy, not
CGI, and they're often diametrically opposed.
> It REALLY, AWFULLY, sounds patronizing and "imperialistic" etc.
The ITU is exactly that, yes.
-Bill
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