Re: <nettime> PFIR proposes new global org. but representative this time.

[Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au>]

I like the representative structure:

At 02:27 AM 7/12/00 -0500, t byfield wrote:
>One possible organizational structure would include five delegates from each
>country, apportioned as one delegate from each of the following five
>categories:
>
>  - Business
>  - Government
>  - Education
>  - Public policy, public interest, and non-profit organizations
>  - Citizens and residents

That's like inviting 5 kings, 5 princes, 5 professors, 5 popes, and 5
peasants to decide who gets to harvest the wheat and clean the shit out
out of the pig pens. One vote each. Very fair. Very democratic.


>There are of course other reasonable ways to organize these or additional
>categories.

There are of course entirely different categories altogether, as well as
the (gasp!) idea of people acting as (gasp!) disinterested individuals
with the wider society's interests in mind ..........

NAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

What was I thinking?!!

It'd never work.

Elite interest and power groups are the way to go. Much more democratic.  
Much more effective.

An organisation like that ought to sort ICANN right out, especially if
they're in with the (aptly named) UN.

Phil



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