Re: Fwd: IAC's response to TRAI's Consultation Paper no. 2/2015 "OTT Services"

Oops, I did it again...

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From:"Vickram Crishna" <v1clist-/[email protected]>
Date:Thu, 23 Apr, 2015 at 7:41 am
Subject:Re: [india-gii] Fwd: IAC's response to TRAI's Consultation Paper	no. 2/2015 "OTT Services"

The problem with mass response, something that was only possible to analyse in detail with the advent of electronic communication, is that it can be spoofed. But to criticise the actual responses, as though the very concept of public feedback is flawed, is going a bit far.


Suresh's illustration of a sort method is not far-fetched, it is the obvious technique for rapid analysis. 


In contrast, the public action against the Mumbai Development Plan, which is concurrent with this neutrality campaign, is characterised by activists assisting citizens to create individualised letters, the  majority of which have been submitted on paper. Analysis will be exceedingly difficult, and sorting out the boilerplate responses a mammoth task. 


Yet it should be done for the simple reason that, unlike the trai draft proposal, there are likely to be thousands of helpful details to a better plan contained in the public feedback.


Rather than discuss the sociological implications of the actual aggregated responses of hundreds of thousands of people, I suspect this list has been far more useful in the past to understanding and appreciating the role of technology in the evolution of the mass response process. Anticipating the outcome, by characterising the bulk of the responses as boilerplate, without any analysis at all, does not help. 

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From:"Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[email protected]>
Date:Thu, 23 Apr, 2015 at 5:36 am
Subject:Re: [india-gii] Fwd: IAC's response to TRAI's Consultation Paper	no. 2/2015 "OTT Services"

The eff and others do this a lot in the USA - and there if I don't miss my guess the best way to deal with these is 'count the number of boilerplate submissions and delete them' - so feedback received that x people wrote in to support whatever it is that got the eff / other org's goat, and more reasoned submissions by those who don't suffer from herd mentality from watching John Oliver or AIB can get examined in the limited time available.

--srs


> On 23-Apr-2015, at 12:55 am, Banibrata Dutta <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The cookie-cutter / cyclostyled response sent out to TRAI, that had apparently flooded it's mailbox, is probably not the best tool.

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