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Internet Society election

I've been asked to stand again for the Internet Society Board election. So, I have answered my questions to best of my knowledge here... and you can follow the links...

A whole week in London

finally with good weather. Started by cycling on Monday using Boris's or Barclay's bikes all the way along the east canal up to Broadway Market in Hackney. Tuesday in Whitechapel Gallery with Tricia Drakes and then off to www.namastekitchen.co.uk with William Heath and Ian Brown. Wednesday with Bronac Ferran and Thomas Dolby's performance at Ditto on 190 New North Road on invisible lighthouse. One of the creative director Andrew is a star.

I got the CD signed by Thomas. Today is more of an ISOC meetings UK Chapter and then discussion with NBCUniversal who have recently been bought by Comcast. Completd the 263 proposal for the IGF in Bali 2013.. Reading more on trilateralism but really enjoying the whitefiles galleary. And reading some ITU /WTPF papers

Wednesday

that 3D printers are now used to make guns as well but that is unavoidable.Still you do not make bullets with them.

Doing my startpage search I stumbled on this odd page: about corporate elite and de-nationalization by multinationals.

And this sentence will always strike a cord:

Am excited to go hear Thomas Dolby speak tonight at Cannonbury! Yay.Frame by Frame was an album...

Also glad that finally thespace.org and the whitefiles has been launched. Congrats mostly to Tony Ageh and Neville...

If you happen to be looking for a nice gourmet indian, go to and enjoyed my din-dins at Namaste in Millman Street with Will and Ian.

hackerspace mother

i seem to have amassed yet another title.

Privacy efforts and the IETF

This paper does not promise much conrete action, however, it does make me feel better that it is there. Knowing the authors from afar, I feel good since I know they are reliable folks! So good luck to them. And to the lawyers...

Lottie Davies

Went to the La Noble gallery curated exhibit today to look at Lottie Davies's photographs that were work coming out of other people's dreams. I liked the Viola photograph the most, with 2 twin babies in the green room, with their cold mother embarrasingly knitting...Afterwards to the bricklane gallery and then to Dragana Perisic's shop off Bricklane.  I am wondering if I would be in London to go listen to Eric Schmidt's talk about the "Reshaping the Future of people" book he co-authored with Jared Cohen. In the write up there does not seem to be anything new, but I look forward to getting the nitty gritty key to to it. When talking about the books, I did not expect to see the word "multistakeholderization" of Internet goverance in the latest Ian and Chris's book "Regulating Code".  I better be doing answers for my Internet Society candidacy to the Board again or working on the another Multistakeholder roundtable meeting in Lusaka in June... IGF, proposal, my master's assignment, the OII paper.

Global development and prosperity

Am attending the first day of a Wilton Park meeting on how the Internet can deliver global development and prosperity.

However, there has been an idea brewing in my mind for quite some time... that there should be a government Tedx at the IGF - a showcase by gov reps about great projects...

Russian IGF

Spoke on Thursday and had a pleasure of meeting Nikolay Nikoforov, now a Minister of Telecommunications - who is an ex programmer.  Mainly I said that it is difficult for some countries to embrace the Multistakeholder model to Internet governance since they do not have a developed Civil Society groups, etc.. and how it is important for ISOC to work with all stakeholders in Russia to bridge the gap between the nations in Internet governance challenges, be it a technical, policy or developmental one.

RIPE South Eastern Europe meetings

More than 180 people registered for the second RIPE SEE meeting in Skopje makes me a happy bunny programme committee member.

 

 

Steve Crocker on Multistakeholder approach to Internet governance

I am fortunate to have met Steve and served together with him on the Board of Internet Society in the past. Certainly, a man of action. And it is good to see how he delivers a speech on the past and future of Internet governance.

He says carefully that "the multistakeholder model on Internet governance (at ICANN) brings in various parties and it _currently_ meets the needs..."