WSIS: Interesting Days Ahead
I’m sitting in a lounge of Milan’s airport with (luckily unfiltered) wifi access, waiting for my connecting flight to Tunis, where I will attend WSIS. Wow, this is going to be an unexpectedly interesting trip, given this developing story. As always, John Palfrey puts it into the right perspective:
“Our hosts here are very gracious. It is very important for such a substantial event to take place on the African continent. But the topic of Tunisia’s filtering regime, and regimes like it, ought to be on the agenda for WSIS, and it’s not. That’s one of the big problems of this event — that important, but diplomatically tricky, topics such as the balkanization of the Internet, in ways that often mislead citizens and visitors alike, are left aside.”
And Charlie Nesson encourages our reporters – citizen journalists – at WSIS:
“Go with this as far as an otherwise focusless meeting of global internet activists assembled with world media looking on can take you, and all the others who will be pleased to join you in making this an active agenda item.”
Also check Ethan Zuckerman’s take on it.
Welcome to the real world games of cyber-governance.
