Why is the Markle Foundation funding these Net policy-making projects?
Baird: This is an outgrowth of the policy environment for the Net. This is a huge area of public interest, but there has been very little effort to create a public voice. We’re trying to find ways to expand people’s involvement in decision making for the Net and things that affect the Net. A lot of nongovernmental bodies are assuming the role of government in this area. As this transfer from the public sphere to the private sphere (was taking) place, we saw that it was happening without the public being given a voice. The Markle program is not just focused on policy; we’re also putting an aggressive effort on building interactive media to improve people’s lives in a number of ways, (such as by encouraging) children’s growth, improving health care, and improving people’s influence on news and media. Markle has committed $250,000 to fund a general election process for the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This body is the most prominent model of th
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