"The IGF: A Bridge to Nowhere?" .Nxt, Inc., June 5, 2012.
From the article: "Leaderless,
broke and mired in bureaucracy, the Internet Governance Forum will become an
historic relic unless its supporters act…Hours of formal
interventions covered everything from the number and format of sessions, to a
funding shortage, to the lack of a political or organizational IGF head, to
concerns that the meeting is being held in human-rights-abusing Azerbaijan. But
when the dancing ended and everyone
returned home, the IGF remained entirely untouched, motionless in the
fast-flowing river of Internet governance…. the IGF needs to
identify what success looks like for it and then ruthlessly follow a path in
pursuing those targets. The IGF was created in large part to explain why the
new and novel systems that currently drive the Internet ultimately produce
better results for everyone. It's time it started to demonstrate that belief
and in so doing give governments and regulators a good reason to attend a
meeting where no decisions are made."
