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Reuters article on WGIG
This article talks about the WGIG as the deciding group to solve the problems with the Internet by July. So - we will "SOLVE" spam, cybercrime, ITU vs ICANN, etc. By July!
Put this way - it's a joke. But the WGIG is serious and the people in it are serious about the mandate given - to develop a definition of Internet Governance, and to provide recommendations for mechanisms and processes for global, multi-stakeholder management of the Internet post-WSIS.
Why is it so difficult to get this point across?

UNDP-APDIP Internet Governance - Now open! Survey on Internet Governance: Unique Outreach through Twelve Languages, Everyone Welcome

UNDP-APDIP Internet Governance - Now open! Survey on Internet Governance: Unique Outreach through Twelve Languages, Everyone Welcome
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WGIG Open consultations... the concept of Multistakeholderism

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The Rikomatic blog has some positive comments on the WGIG open consultation process.
This is interesting... so many of the comments that we've received to date are very negative on the draft issue papers. However, we are starting to receive lots of lovely comments on the process that we are going through. This is very good -
1. Because we believe that this process is really the way forward for global issue management
2. It's good to hear something positive about a job that one is doing for free and that takes up a lot of time and stress... good to get some warm fuzzies.

So - I'm currently in the informal meeting between the Civil Society and the Private Sector. This is very very cool, as there is definitely a meeting of the minds on some of these issues. We're working on finding ways to continue working together where possible. This is super important in this process, as sometimes it feels like PS and CS vs the Governments. So many of the Governments really dislike the concept of multistakeolderism. (yes - we are making up new words!!!)

We are all fighting to be heard in the process.

More later

GQ on the "Office wife" phenomenon

GQ magazine has an article about "office wives". This isn't a lurid sex on the photocopier type thing though, it's about the platoic male-female relationships that grow when you work closely with someone. You develop a shared history, shorthand, common references. I know the phenomenon well, as I can identify several occasions when I've had that kind of relationship with someone I work with. What's cool about it is that most times, you rarely see each other socially (outside the office), but they do end up knowing more about you than most anyone.

Fired for not smiling? What next?!?

This article from a US newspaper freaked me out. Connecticut apparently is a state in which your employer can fire you for whatever reason they want. That's bad enough, but to get fired for not SMILING enough? What the h***? And she wasn't a flight attendant, receptionist or any other "public face" of the organisation. So what does this mean for the Connecticut business future? If you have a boring homogenous workplace, that's the first step on the slippery slope to irrelevance and bankruptcy. How can creativity and innovation thrive when you fire people who don't have a grin pasted on? What happened to diversity in the workplace? What happened to the need to have the "outside the box" thinkers?
I hope she gets a better job at a place where her skills (I assume she has them) are better appreciated. And that the short-sighted closed-minded company that fired her gets a karmic backlash.

The great societal purge - PittsburghLIVE.com

The great societal purge - PittsburghLIVE.com
Review of a wonderful book by a very good West Indian writer - Robert Antoni. It's about Carnival - my spiritual well. I need it to refresh my soul, my creativity. It's where I come from. So - read the book.