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<font face="Verdana">It is rather unfortunate, and perhaps ominous,
that "democratically accountable mutlistakeholder model of IG' is
dismissed in favour of just '</font><font face="Verdana"><font
face="Verdana">mutlistakeholder model of IG'.<br>
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Does it mean that it is considered unnecessary for
'multistakeholder model(s) of IG' to be democratically
accountable?<br>
<br>
This is a very important question that must be addressed.<br>
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It is in this background that the Just Net Coalition has been
making a distinction between an explicitly democratic
multistakeholder (MS) models and those MS models that do not
just avoid mentioning the term 'democratic' but often actively
avoid it - as this particular amendment exercise seems to
suggest. (A distinction that some people here have considered
superfluous, and perhaps self serving!)<br>
<br>
When I said 'ominous' above, I meant how the post democratic
sentiment that took root at the 'global' 'IG' space has begun to
spread downwards to spaces where the democratic tradition is
otherwise rather well entrenched (and will also spread to non IG
areas as well, such are the powerful forces backing the post
democratic ideologies). One is so disappointed that this kind of
thing should happen at a forum like the EU. But perhaps a good
indicator and a warning, if we can use it as one, that we may be
playing with fire in the unthinking promoting of some very
problematic governance models in the global IG space, unmindful
of their impact on democratic traditions. <br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 12 February 2015 11:53 PM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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The final resolution did not contain the amendment:<br>
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href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=P8-RC-2015-0099&language=EN">www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=P8-RC-2015-0099&language=EN</a><br>
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The relevant passage: "
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Stresses that it is firmly committed to the multistakeholder model
of internet governance; calls upon the Member States, the
Commission and all relevant stakeholders to further strengthen the
sustainability of this model by making actors and processes at
national, regional and international levels more inclusive,
transparent and accountable;"<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/02/2015 12:49 pm, Carolina
Rossini wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">+1 on Erik suggestionÂ
<div>Jeremy, is this still possible?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:54 PM,
JOSEFSSON Erik <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div
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consider explicitly supporting the following amendment
too:<br>
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AM 2 (to point 6):<br>
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"Stresses that it is firmly committed to a <b>democratically
accountable multistakeholder model</b> of Internet
governance; calls upon the Member States, the European
Commission and all relevant stakeholders to further
strengthen the sustainability of the multi-stakeholder
model by making actors and processes at national,
regional and international levels more inclusive,
transparent and accountable;"<br>
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It should have been tabled less than an hour ago!<br>
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//Erik<br>
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