[ga] Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] GAC Transparency

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jamie and all,

  Indeed you are quite right in saying that people "avoid transparency
to avoid accountability."  This seems to be the case with the GAC
and has been for some time now.  One can only wonder why..  And
in that wondering the GAC effectively shoots itself in both feet
in the process of avoiding accountability in their lack of transparency.
This is something that Nancy J Victory's testimony yesterday to the
senate carefully avoided in her references to the GAC.  Hence it would
seem to that degree she and the DOC/NTIA still don't get it...

James Love wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joop Teernstra" <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>
> : >Is there any known reason why the GAC has almost zero transparency?
> :
> : Relations between governments can be sensitive.
> : Diplomacy and transparency are to an extent mutually exclusive.
>
>      Well, this isn't true, IMO.   There is a huge push globally to make
> trade negotiations more transparent, in the WTO, WIPO, WHO, the Hague
> Conference, ITU, everywhere.  There is still plenty of room for diplomacy.
> People avoid transparency to avoid accountability.    The GAC is now chaired
> by a non government persons who apparently is in business with Ira
> Magaziner.  They have all of these secret discussions.  The didn't even put
> the last meeting on their web page:
> http://www.noie.gov.au/projects/international/DNS/gac/meetings/index.htm  .
> The papers presented are secret.   Many of the GAC members probably want
> secrecy to avoid accountability at home, not for diplomacy, which they can
> do in lots of ways, such as through embassies, in information discussions,
> etc.
>
>    Jamie
>
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