<div dir="ltr">Interesting. Thanks for sharing the article Joanna.<div><br></div><div>It may be noted that ALAC is only referenced once in the article content, and then only as a definition. Even the definition of ALAC has a spelling error ... "Ad-Large Advisory Committee".</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>David</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 9:35 AM gopal via CPWG <<a href="mailto:cpwg@icann.org">cpwg@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8035132353818130081">




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 largely the outcome of the pronounced shift to make technology sublime and hope that is the best way of catering to the end-users who keep increasing exponentially.</span></div>
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 with systemic ideas such as resilience and an elucidation on the fact that a "Personal" computer does warrant "Personal" focus with a set of "Personal" Aspects going down the wire and into the world connected by the Internet. A device / thing in any form has
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<b>Subject:</b> [CPWG] Suggested reading: "Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings"</font>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thought this might be a useful reference for our MSM discussions:
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<span lang="EN-US">“Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings”
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<span lang="EN-US">The authors found that: “three primary rhetorical devices – participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of the status quo – were present, which reinforce the entrenched power structure that favors some stakeholders and interfere
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<span lang="EN-US">Particularly interesting when compared with the commissioned ICANN study on its legitimacy and accountability, summarized by the authors e.g. here:
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3204233" target="_blank">https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3204233</a>
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<span lang="EN-US">and here <a href="https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3446984" target="_blank">
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<span lang="EN-US">We might wish to use these when attempting to ensure more diversity, stronger end user representation, multilingualism and UA, optionally also in SubPro and PICs debates, given the paper’s focus on GNSO and PDPs challenges.
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<span lang="EN-US">Just a thought, with all best wishes,</span></p>
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