Re: [ALSC-Forum] Self-regulation and ICANN

[Vittorio Bertola]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:46:26 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:

>Further, most serious e-democracy researches will agree that the
>one-click-voting idea of e-democracy is flawed and that the scenery of
>e-democracy should be painted with much wider strokes from a palette of
>transparancy and interaction (not meaning actual voting on every issue).
>However, it sounds like you subscribe to the poll-based democracy.

No, sorry if this was not clear. I don't think that ICANN will have to
submit every single decision to the whole membership - it would be crazy.
But I think that through electronic instruments you can build a
representation chain from the individual to the Board member that is much
shorter and stronger than the one you would build going through the usual
Citizen->Party->Parliament->Government->International Orgs path. I even
agree with Esther when she suggests that "e-parties" should form - simply I
don't think that the current parties and governments have the right type of
attitude to govern the Internet in a fair, effective and accountable way.
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Vittorio Bertola     <vb@vitaminic.net>    Ph. +39 011 23381220
Vitaminic [The Music Evolution] - Vice President for Technology

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