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FOR something so central to the modern world, the internet is shambolically governed. It is run by a hotch-potch of organisations with three- to five-letter acronyms. Many of their meetings, both online and offline, are open to the public. Some—like the Internet Governance Forum, which held its annual meeting in Nairobi this week—are just talking shops. Decision-making is slow and often unpredictable. It is in short a bit chaotic.

Internet governance: In praise of chaos | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/21531011

Internet n'a pas à être "civilisé" - LeMonde.fr

Par Patrice Lamothe, PDG du moteur de recherche communautaire Pearltrees et Thomas Gomart, directeur du développement stratégique à l'IFRI "A u e-G8, je me sens comme un Indien ou un Africain en train de regarder les puissances coloniales s' armer pour conquérir ma terre" . Ce tweet du journaliste américain Jeff Jarvis résume le clivage entre le monde de l'Internet et ceux qui cherchent à le "civiliser", au premier rang duquel figure désormais Nicolas Sarkozy . Opération de communication, l'e-G8 aura eu le mérite de souligner l'importance croissante du numérique, longtemps cantonné en France à un secrétariat d'Etat, de mettre en scène des rapports de domination et surtout de révéler le choc de conception en matière de gouvernance entre les Etats et Internet. Commande politique financée par des industriels et orchestrée par un groupe publicitaire, l'e-G8 aura finalement traduit une conception étroite du système international . http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/06/06/internet-n-a-pas-a-etre-civilise_1532491_3232.html#xtor=AL-32280258

Bienvenue à l’e-G8, le Davos du web » OWNI, News, Augmented

La grand messe d'Internet voulue par Nicolas Sarkozy se tient jusqu'à ce mercredi à Paris, avant le G8 de Deauville. Et la couleur industrielle de l'événement en effraie certains. Explications, avec des vrais morceaux de Maurice Lévy dedans. http://owni.fr/2011/05/23/eg8-davos-web-internet-sarkozy-publicis/

E-direct de l’e-G8 » OWNI, News, Augmented

Comme on pouvait s'y attendre, l'e-G8 ressemble à s'y méprendre au Forum économique mondial. Résumé des deux journées, vidéos, photos, verbatim et illustrations à l'appui. Un immense chapiteau en forme d’Algeco géant, des centaines d’invités, des petits fours Lenôtre, quelques gros bonnets descendus de leur tour d’ivoire (Didier Lombard traversant le buffet), le décor de l’e-G8 est solidement planté. Tout a commencé par une allocution attendue de Nicolas Sarkozy, chaudement accueilli par Maurice Lévy, le P-DG de Publicis et président de l’événement. http://owni.fr/2011/05/24/direct-eg8-sarkozy-internet/

Hashtable » Au e-G8, les olibrius et les incompétents veulent réguler Internet

Le e-G8 est en train de s’achever et on apprend que, conformément à ce que j’imaginais déjà lundi dernier , les conclusions sont déjà écrites, se foutent du citoyen et comptent bien permettre à l’agenda spécifique des états de se réaliser rapidement… C’était couru d’avance : dès le départ, l’e-G8 a été présenté comme un sommet, organisé par le président français, pour traiter d’Internet en présence d’autres chefs d’états et de gouvernements, avec des industriels fortunés et l’absence marquée de représentation citoyenne, sans aucun compte à rendre à la fin sur les décisions prises. Aubaine évidente et arène grandiose pour se faire mousser, Sarkozy n’a donc pas lésiné sur les moyens, et se sera comporté exactement comme attendu. En entrée, on avait un événement artificiel chargé de faire son auto-promotion, en sortie, on a toujours le même artifice, mais on gagne l’absolue certitude que tout sera tenté pour museler un peu plus les nouvelles technologies. http://h16free.com/2011/05/26/8572-au-e-g8-les-olibrius-et-les-incompetents-veulent-reguler-internet
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L’eG8 c’était vraiment génial !

Si je ne devais retenir que 3 interventions lors de l'eG8, ce seraient celles-ci... Le discours bullshit du Président. Sachez apprécier le passage de ce qui différencie une dictature d'une démocratie, et la réponse foutage de gueule faite à Jeff Jarvis :

A Hippocratic oath for the internet « BuzzMachine

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/05/23/a-hippocratic-oath-for-the-internet/ First, do no harm. That is the message I would like to bring to the e-G8 summit on the internet gathered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy this week in Paris. I am apprehensive about a meeting of government and industry that begins with the presumption that they wield authority over the internet, the people’s internet. Cory Doctorow decided not to attend, declaring it a “whitewash” for regimes that are at “war with the free, open net.” Perhaps that’s the right decision.
This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say on 24 May 2011. Listen to the programme . President Sarkozy is hosting a major two day conference about the internet. It's called e-G8, which many of you will know as it was already trending as a subject before it began. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/2011/05/on_air_at_1800gmt_eg8_the_inte.html

BBC - World Service - World Have Your Say: On air at 1800GMT: #eG8, the Internet and us

BBC News - The e-G8 forum: Can governments regulate the web?

On the web, it is very difficult to regulate what is being said - as shown in the Wikileaks releases and the furore around so-called super-injunctions. But with the internet believed to be entering a stage of maturity, governments are looking at how best - or even whether to - regulate the internet. David Reid visits the first ever e-G8 forum in Paris to discover what can be agreed between leaders of the world and the most influential people on the web. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9499164.stm
The Internet is the place where we meet, speak, create, educate ourselves and organize. However, as we are at a turning point in early web history, it could either become a prime tool for improving our societies, knowledge and culture, or a totalitarian tool of surveillance and control. After 15 years of fighting the sharing of culture in the name of an obsolete copyright regime, governments of the World are uniting to control and censor the Internet. The black-out of the Egyptian Net, the US government's reaction to Wikileaks, the adoption of website blocking mechanisms in Europe, or the plans for 'Internet kill switches' are all major threats on our freedom of expression and communication. These threats come from corporations and politicians, unsettled by the advent of the Internet. As a host of the G8, France's president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to step up centralized control over the Internet. http://boingboing.net/2011/05/17/fight-back-against-s.html

Fight back against Sarkozy's EG8 -- an exercise in censorship and control dressed up as a technology summit

To argue for controls over the internet may not be cool, but it's right | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian

Depending on how you see these things, you can argue that the prominence of a subject like global regulation of the internet on the agenda for the G8 leaders this week is proof of the Deauville summit 's compelling importance. Or alternatively, that it testifies to its abject irrelevance. The Anglo-Saxon temptation is to say that putting the internet on the agenda is a Deauville diversion conjured up by the incorrigibly dirigiste French state. Nicolas Sarkozy has always wanted to make the internet a frontline political issue. This week in Paris, he has hosted an "eG8" , where he told an audience of online grandees, Rupert Murdoch among them, that the internet could not be a parallel universe without rules and that governments must not allow the internet to remain unchecked.

David Cameron to resist French plan for internet regulation | Technology | The Guardian

French police outside the G8 summit in Paris, where on Wednesday Nicolas Sarkozy will propose internet controls. Photograph: Yves Herman/REUTERS David Cameron is to resist calls for international regulation of the web by Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit. The French president will table proposals for controls on the internet on the first day of the conference of world leaders in Deauville, Normandy. Cameron's officials stressed they believed there were many hurdles and mechanisms before anyone could regulate the net internationally. "We will not be regulating the internet any time soon," said a Downing Street official.

Only a fool or Nicolas Sarkozy would go to war with Facebook | Technology | The Observer

Whether on or offline, teenagers do daft things. But then so did their parents in their youth. Photograph: John Powell/Rex Features Oscar Wilde described foxhunting as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable". If Wilde had been able to see the diminutive tyrant who is currently president of France going on last week about bringing the internet to heel, he might have updated his hunting metaphor to "the clueless in pursuit of the unattainable" perhaps. Sarkozy was speaking at the eG8, a gathering of those whom the French government thinks are the important players in the online world.

G8 vs INTERNET

Everyone is invited to send URIs web addresses of any bits of expression produced in answer to this call to submit@g8internet.com . The Internet is the place where we meet, speak, create, educate ourselves and organize. However, as we are at a turning point in early web history, it could either become a prime tool for improving our societies, knowledge and culture, or a totalitarian tool of suveillance and control.

The Best Tweets From eG8

Social media monitoring company Synthesio looked at the Twitter chatter around the eG8 Forum in Paris this Tuesday and Wednesday and put together a nice infographic ranking the 10 tweets about the forum that people most chatted about.