roundtable: cr,cj-4-21LISTNAMEHEREgt; re: Cyberspace Society and other ORGS

roundtable: cr,cj-4/21> re: Cyberspace Society & other ORGS

cr,cj-4/21> re: Cyberspace Society & other ORGS

Richard K. Moore (rkmoore@iol.ie)
Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:21:43 +0000 

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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:21:43 +0000
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: rkmoore@iol.ie (Richard K. Moore)
Subject: cr,cj-4/21> re: Cyberspace Society & other ORGS


At 2:16 PM 4/18/95, hkklein@MIT.EDU wrote:
>I applaud your activities.  However, as far as I can see, such an
>activity is already up and running.  The Institute for Global
>Communications (IGC) and the Association for Progressive Communications
>(APC) seem to be existing forces in progressive world politics via
>cyberspace.
>
>I suggest that Vigdor, Richard, and Curtiss talk to those folks.
>Also, if anyone from IGC or APC has detailed background information
>on their activities, I would certainly appreciate a list of references
>(I know that Howard Frederick has done some excellent work in this area.)
>
>What makes IGC/APC so impressive to me is that they seem to generate
>as many actions as words.  Let that be a lesson to us all!
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The challenge to the Cyberspace Society is to provide something not 
already being provided elsewhere.  Surely there should not be conflict 
or competition between CS and already-existing groups.  The operative 
relationships should be synergy, cooperation, and coalition.

I see CS as being a nucleus for developing a new global conciousness of 
the democratic potential, and helping to realize that potential.  
Something like the global network of enlightenment thinkers that 
developed the US Declaration of Independence, the French Rights of Man, 
and which led to the development of Western Democracies as we've known 
them over the past two centuries.

The New World Order, sponsored by avaricious multinational corporations,
aims to regress to the late 18th Century, take a different fork in the
road, and rebuild the world with a Robber Barron architecure, enforced 
by a USA/NATO global police force, administered by the World Bank and 
the World Trade Organisation, and facilitated by a monopolistic and 
reactionary world press.

The Cyberspace Society also takes the late 18th Century as a point of
reference, but aims to fashion a more genuinely grass-roots democratic
base, without the landed-aristocracy infiltration -- the Hamiltonian/Tory
dimension -- that has moderated and undermined the democratic potential 
of Western democracies.  This is to be facilitated by the "people's 
media" (the Internet), so long as it remains available to us.


Richard

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