[Npoc-discuss] Growing our Citizenship in the Internet Ecosystem

[Sam Lanfranco]

As an NPOC member this short email is a brief comment on our growing 
obligations, as citizens, in the Internet ecosystem:

Earlier this year the OECD released a document on Broadband Policies for 
Latin America and the Caribbean. It is an excellent source for 
information about broadband polices and socio-economic development. It 
should be of particular interest to not-for-profits, social business, 
and community groups anywhere in the world. (See link below)

Without exception every organization and individual on the planet is in 
some way within the Internet ecosystem. We are a r/esident/ of that 
Internet ecosystem within one more more political entities. Depending on 
where we live and where we work we are an /Inhabitant/ of some 
socio-economic sub-culture within those political entities. In short, we 
are all becoming /citizens//of the Internet ecosystem/, and as citizens 
we will increasingly both expect the /benefits of //citizenship, /for 
who we are and what we do, and be expected to be engaged in 
the/obligations of citizenship/. //Those obligations include engagement 
in policy making and implementation.
/
/For example, the repeated call for "/The Internet to be Free/" is not 
about it being literally a cost-less service. This is a call for it to 
remain accessible in ways that are integral to our notions of human 
rights and the individual freedom and dignity of individuals as 
community members, and as citizens both of our political entities and of 
the global Internet ecosystem. There is of course a concern with 
"/Access for All/". Within that there are both technological and 
economic issues around access, but even there the bigger issue is how we 
deploy our citizenship within the various political entities that set 
policy for the Internet ecosystem. Even our concerns about privacy and 
security are about our individual and human rights, above and beyond 
concerns for intellectual property protection, or national security.

Here is a good introduction to the area of broadband policy making, to 
help each of use strengthen our roles as /citizens of the Internet 
ecosystem/, citizens engaged in the development of the Internet ecosystem.

http://www.oecd.org/publications/broadband-policies-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-9789264251823-en.htm





Sam Lanfranco npoc/csih
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