[pp.int.general] pp.international.general Digest, Vol 47, Issue 4

[Amelia Andersdotter]

i am largely in agreement with samir, and will take this opportunity to 
push my additional commentary on the participants in the list.

On 02.01.2011 16:43, Core TX wrote:
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> - All taskforces are down, and we need them !

i disagree with this. it is better with temporary affiliations around 
stuff that people feel is important. uhm. except i really, really think 
that there should be a task force or temporary affiliation around 
writing a response for the data protection directive consultation since 
this is likely one of the most important events that is likely to come 
up in the next few years. if you want to play a bureaucratic game, 
please care about the bureaucracy. this is not difficult. the deadline 
is january 12th as i believe i have told a number of people for a few 
months.

> - We need coordination for the EU elections.

this i do agree with. if we could figure out what we want out of/with 
our engagement in european union politics we need to coordinate that. i 
don't think that non-european parties need to care about that, however. 
it's good for europeans to have informed views on fta:s and is probably 
good to get external information for that (also i would please like to 
sort out this entire northern african telecommunications situation - i 
want to know what france telecom owns and what it doesn't own, also i 
once met this palestinian lawyer who talked a lot about "secondary" 
blocking of information for occupied areas, ref sahara occidental and 
gaza/westbank, and how eu support or non-trade snactins against 
countries who engage in that behaviour might be contrary to some e trade 
agreement provisions that they have with the blockers).

> - We can safe resources on a joint scientific bureau
> - NGO's want a single contact point, not a chat with all 50+ parties ( PPI
> can relay 98% of the same data, and relay the other 2% )

this is also true. it is a serious bitch to keep in touch with x number 
of different actors, and if anyone wants media etc on for example 
european issues it really really helps if european parties have a joint 
contact person. i guess this will be rick falkvinge now that he is 
moving on the european coordination, so perhaps we can rally behind him. 
also, i guess, lobby him for your national peculiarities :-)

/a

> - We can get subsidies
>
> Personally, if no party objects, i'd like to see one PPI conference location
> per continent.
> And all sites having beamers with the other sites onscreen.
>
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>> Hmm, this turned into slightly more of an essay than I was planning but
>> never mind - just a few thoughts on the matters. Finally, I hope
>> everyone had a good new year.
>>
>> -Will
>> [Former PPI Coreteam member]
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