This paper makes perfectly clear the opportunity for gaming in its suggestion that (all non-commercial organizations in the world and) all issues that non-commercial users have traditionally cared about should be squeezed into 1 constituency, while elevating 1 single proposed constituency to an equal status.  Wow.  

6 imposed constituencies:

NCOC            Non-Commercial Organizations’ Constituency  (organizations that make significant use of the Internet in their internal and external functions, including universities, religious groups, charities, etc.)

EDUC            Educators’ Constituency (academics, researchers, teachers, education provider institutions, publishers)

CONC            Consumers’ Constituency (people using on-line banking, personal and family shopping, and other non-business Internet transactions)

INFC            Information Users’ Constituency (lay people searching for medical and political news and other information for non-commercial and non-professional purposes)

EMUC            Emerging Users’ Constituency (users and potential users from under-developed areas, tech-impaired generations, with low education levels, or subject to language or other barriers to access and effective utilization of the Internet)           

FAMC         Family and Children Constituency 








On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Cheryl Preston wrote:

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