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Cory Doctorow: The WorldChanging Interview
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| One of the truly subversive and amazing things the NGOs did is that we set up
| open WiFi networks that weren't connected to the Internet -- because there
| was no Internet access at the meetings when we started -- and then we would
| take exhaustive collaborative notes on what was said. It's very hard to take
| notes at these events. Diplomatic speech is very stylized, so you'll have a
| typical intervention which begins something like, "Mr. Chairman, allow me to
| congratulate you as I take the floor for the first time, on your
| reappointment to the chairmanship. I have every confidence that with your
| steady hand at the tiller, you'll guide us to a swift and full consensus on
| the issues at hand. The delegation from Lower Whatistan is pleased to take
| the floor." Und zo weiter. Eventually you get to the point, and after 20
| minutes it boils down to, "No." Taking notes on that kind of speech is really
| grueling, because it's very hard to stay attentive and catch the one little
| phrase that has meaning.
|
| So we'd have teams of three or four people using collaborative note-taking
| software, and one would be taking notes, one would be adding commentary and
| another would be following behind and correcting typos and formatting and the
| like. Meanwhile, we're all of us checking each other as we go -- filling in
| the blanks, noting discrepancies and so on -- and then publishing it twice a
| day at lunch and dinner.
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| Now, the delegations there were accustomed to the old WIPO regime, where the
| notes would be taken by the secretariat, sent out for approval by the
| delegates, sanitized -- all the bodies would be buried -- and then published
| six months later. And what happened once we started working together like
| this is that delegates would get calls on their lunch break about things
| they'd said that morning. Suddenly, they're immediately accountable for their
| words, which completely changed the character of the negotiations.
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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008452.html
Related:
Blogger preaches Internet download freedoms
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| DRM has emerged as an attempt to make it more difficult to copy, Doctorow
| said. "I call it anti-copying technology," Doctorow said. But he added he
| does not think DRM works. The software industry basically has abandoned it,
| Doctorow said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=455381478&rid=-50
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