Daily Archive for Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

WSIS – Focus 3 – MANGABEIRA

Published by nesson on November 16, 2005 in berkmania, Brazil, General, rhetorical space and trust. Closed

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:17:43 -0500
To: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
From: Charles Nesson
Subject: Re: Jamaica/Brazil + China
Cc: “ronaldo Lemos” ,

 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/
Read the filtering report on Tunisia and consider its implications.
Read my blog response to Jimmy Wales, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/nesson/blog…
Consider how you would address national regimes of the world on how they should think about filtering their national information space.

eon

At 03:49 PM 11/15/2005, you wrote:
OK, but how in the future what can we do with regard to these international meetings?
At 02:27 PM 11/15/2005, you wrote:
You are late. This is the World Summit i spoke about with you back when you appeared to be curious about a cyber strategy for your campaign. WSIS – google it.

At 12:46 PM 11/15/2005, you wrote:
I don;t even know what WSIS is. How then can I be on top of what’s happening there?
Robeto
At 11:36 AM 11/15/2005, you wrote:

Are you on top of what’s happening at WSIS?

WSIS – Focus 2

Published by nesson on November 16, 2005 in China, General and rhetorical space. Closed


At 09:07 AM 11/16/2005, Jimmy Wales wrote:
What sort of provocative thing ought I to say in Tunis about this: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/tunisia

I’m going to try not to get stabbed, but getting thrown out of the
country early wouldn’t be so bad… my little girl has a daisy troop
thing I don’t want to miss. 🙂

–Jimbo

Assume your audience has the facts, point those who don’t toward coverage of the report. Address the plight of nations and national leaders who are feeling threatened by our open global communications network and who respond by filtering, like Tunis. Do not talk down. Focus on the trajectory of freedom over time. See China PRP, for example, as a government in which the trajectory of freedom is positive. The operative point of focus should not be the state of filtering at any one given time but on the slope of the freedom curve. Are people looking up, or are people looking down. Rebecca MacKinnon sounds from China, Ethan from ACCRA. Sound this note for Global Voices.

eon