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		<title> ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society - Part III (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a book project I decided to extend my interview with [url=http://www.circleid.com/member/home/1121/]Milton Mueller[/url] from November 2003 ([url=http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_i/]Part I[/url] | [url=http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_ii/]Part II[/url]). Exclusively for CircleID readers, here's part III that deals with WSIS, WGIG, US-American bias and the Internet Governance Project. "...One good result of the WGIG process is that the involved international community has already moved beyond those cliches. No one is proposing that the UN control the Internet. There is growing consensus that control of the DNS root needs to be internationalized..." <a href="https://circleid.com/postsicann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_iii">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Open Ends: Civil Society and Internet Governance - Part III (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the final part of a three-part series interview by Geert Lovink with Jeanette Hofmann, policy expert from Germany, where she talks about her experiences as a member of the ICANN's Nominating Committee and her current involvement as a civil society member of the German delegation for the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS). "You have been visiting WSIS as a member of the German delegation. Could you share some of your personal impressions with us? Did you primarily look at WSIS as an ICT circus for governmental officials and development experts or was there something, no matter how futile, at stake there?..." <a href="https://circleid.com/postsopen_ends_civil_society_and_internet_governance_part_iii">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Open Ends: Civil Society and Internet Governance - Part II (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a three-part series interview by Geert Lovink with Jeanette Hofmann, policy expert from Germany, where she talks about her experiences as a member of the ICANN's Nominating Committee and her current involvement as a civil society member of the German delegation for the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS). "So much in the current debates over global governance seems to go back to the issue what place governments and individual nation states have within global governance. What has been your ICANN experience? Ideally, what would be the place of the state? Do you believe in a federal structure? Should, for instance, bigger countries, in terms of its population, have a great say?..." <a href="https://circleid.com/postsopen_ends_civil_society_and_internet_governance_part_ii">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Open Ends: Civil Society and Internet Governance - Part I (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first part of a three-part series interview by Geert Lovink with Jeanette Hofmann, policy expert from Germany, where she talks about her experiences as a member of the ICANN's Nominating Committee and her current involvement as a civil society member of the German delegation for the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS). "You recently published a paper (in German) called 'The Short Dream of Democracy on the Net.' Your conclusion is a rather sombering one. How would you describe the current situation related to ICANN? You state that nothing has been learned from the failed At-Large Membership experiment. Would you even go that far and see a backlash happening right now?..." <a href="https://circleid.com/postsopen_ends_civil_society_and_internet_governance_part_i">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society - Part II (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsicann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_ii</link>
		<description><![CDATA[[i]This is the second part of a two-part series interview by Geert Lovink with Milton Mueller discussing ICANN, World Summit on the Information Society, and the escalating debates over Internet Governance. Read the first part of this Interview [url=http://www.circleid.com/article/380_0_1_0_C/]here[/url].[/i] Geert Lovink: "Confronted with Internet governance many cyber activists find themselves in a catch 22 situation. On the one hand they do not trust government bureaucrats to run the Internet, out of a justified fear that regulation through multilateral negotiations might lead to censorship and stifle innovation. On the other hand they criticize the corporate agendas of the engineering class that is anything but representative. What models should activists propose in the light of the World Summit on the Information Society ([url=http://www.itu.int/wsis/]WSIS[/url])? There seems to be no way back to a nation state 'federalist' solution. Should they buy into the 'global civil society' solution?" <a href="https://circleid.com/postsicann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_ii">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society - Part I (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsicann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_i</link>
		<description><![CDATA[[i]This is the first part of a two-part series interview by Geert Lovink with Milton Mueller discussing ICANN, World Summit on the Information Society, and the escalating debates over Internet Governance. Read the second part of this Interview [url=http://www.circleid.com/article/388_0_1_0_C/]here[/url].[/i] Geert Lovink: "Would it make sense to analyse ICANN (and its predecessors) as a test model for some sort of secretive 'world government' that is run by self appointed experts? Could you explain why governments are seen as incapable of running the Internet? This all comes close to a conspiracy theory. I am not at all a fan of such reductionist easy-to-understand explanations. However, the discontent with 'global governance' discourse is widespread and it seems that the International Relations experts have little understanding how the Internet is actually run. Where do you think theorization of Internet governance should start?" <a href="https://circleid.com/postsicann_wsis_and_the_making_of_a_global_civil_society_part_i">More...</a>]]></description>
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