[Chapter-delegates] India's proposal for a 50 member UN Committee for Internet Related Policies (CIRP)

[Sivasubramanian M]

In The Hindu, one of India's leading news dailies, these appeared:

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3426290.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3426292.ece?homepage=true#comments

The author of both these articles is Parminder Jeet Singh.  Though the
first article is not attributed to Parminder, it is his text, published
word for word.

But it is comforting to see the sensible comments on the second article.  I
have also posted this comment:

Internet Governance is being discussed in a multi-stakeholder framework, a
> framework where Business, Governments, Civil Society, International
> Organizations and the Academic Community is seated equally. This is the 6th
> year of the Internet Governance Forum as the multi-stakeholder forum.
>
> The author champions the idea of a multi-lateral framework of Governments
> deciding on how the user will use the Internet and how the Governments
> would control it, largely in exclusion of Business and other stakeholders.
> This idea is wrapped up as a proposal to "democratize" the "US controlled"
> Internet Governance presently "subject to" the "policies of rich country
> clubs", an incendiary argument with a ploy to transfer the technical and
> policy functions of the Internet to the International Telecommunications
> Union which would then control the Internet in the UN environment and
> thereby have total and complete control of all communications. Parminder
> works for IT for Change which appears to lead an "ITU for Change" campaign.
>


Posted it a few minutes back. Comments are moderated.

Sivasubramanian M



On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> India Today, one of the most respected news magazines in Inda and
> Headlines Today, its Television channel today criticized India's current
> proposal for "web takeover"
>
>
> http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-wants-internet-watchdog-proposes-50-nation-regulator-to-un/1/189032.html
>
> The good news is that the press is beginning to pay attention to what our
> Government is doing on its own, without any consultation.
>
> Sivasubramanian M
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