Having had to renew my credit card and go through the odyssey of it being sent twice to the old branch in Oxford instead to London, I have not been able to renew my account for some time. I am back.
May highlights - I chaired a panel on Net Neutrality at the IET Surrey Network annual meeting which had fab panelists: Prof, Dame Wendy Hall, Kate Craig-Wood of Memset, Prof John Crowcroft, Alex Bowler of Memset.
June - I stepped down from the Board of Trustees of Internet Society after six years of service and felt good that new trustees replacing Patrick Vande Walle and myself were Eva Frolich and Larry Lessig.
July - This month was wonderful as it started with The Guardian Activate 2010 conference. Esther Dyson asked me at the Speaker's dinner: What are you going to say? I jokingly answered that Internet (governance) today is still mainly in the hands of private interests, which was no news for her. But I did not give the spoiler of a cyber-fairy Tale.
I used an analogy of William Golding's novel and later a cult film, Princess Bride, to talk about latest Internet governance twists and turns. Everybody is out there fighting for the hand of a virtuous and beautifully designed Princess Buttercup - The Internet. It was such a pleasure and a relief to present in front of The Guardian audience and friends and @127.0.0.1.
tweets are here:
5.23pm: Desiree Miloshevic, board trustee at Internet Society, now up. How should the internet be governed? And who decides? But who decides who decides? What will happen if we have a BP situation on the net? Who will be responsible? 5.25pm: Miloshevic: the definition of "internet governance" is quite clumsy, but Wikipedia sums it up quite well. Largely internet governance is in the hands of the private sector, but it may not be always that way. We can see pendulum swinging back towards the public. 5.30pm: @KevinMarks tweets: "says Désirée Miloshevič: Princess Bride - Internet is the princess, Wesley the biz, Sovereign the King" @Publiczone: "Loving the analogy b/n [between?] Internet governance and classic love triangle: pirate vs king. Who will win internet's heart?" 5.35pm: @aleksk tweets: "Desiree Miloshevic is using The Princess Bride to explain the issues in the Internet Governance debate. Genius." @Bubana comments: "internet governance just got fun Internet is a young lady virtuous by design whose choice is dictator or a poor revolutionary" Asks Miloshevic: Is this a story without an end? We don't have to rush to a fairy-tale ending.
