The Democracy Video Challenge

Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by Flywheel

YouTube, The US State Dept and some other groups have been sponsoring a contest called the “Democracy Video Challenge.” I like the concept, which has surfaced some excellent content from around the world. But it’s unfortunate that their voting procedures are more about democracy theater than democracy itself.
In any case, the community manager is [...]

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UN ponders “10 Commandments” for the Internet

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Flywheel

ICANN’s Rod Beckstrom linked to this article by Janna Quitney Anderson, motivating this response from a well-known I* critic:
The problem with things like this is they obscure the fact the internet is a collective of private networks, there’s no public component. If the UN would like a network to abide by a certain 10 principles [...]

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