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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 12 May 2016 01:30 PM, Nick
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<pre wrap="">Dear Parminder, FWIW, he’s been saying this for about a year, and he keeps suggesting new intergovernmental fora where he’s going to bring this up but so far, I’ve not noticed anyone else taking this idea up.</pre>
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Dear Nick<br>
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You will note from the news coverage of his announcement that he is
*not* at all suggesting a 'new intergovernmental fora', as you put
it, instead, he is calling for a 'business led multistakeholder
platform' for framing rules for global e-commerce.... He, or ecom
business in general, is of course welcome to submit any new ecom
rules related proposal to the WTO, or even call for an entirely new
intergov body to separately deal with global ecom... But if your key
point was that no one is taking him up on the idea, well, still idea
is still strongly backed enough for it to be discussed in the public
sphere and people give their opinion on it -- also remember Ma is
co-chair of the Net Mundial Initiative, in which many people here
have enthusiastically participated... They for instance need to tell
us what they think of this proposal of business led public policy
making, that Ma wants to propose to G 20 later this year...<br>
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Now, what Jack Ma is calling for is the exact reification of the
language of equal footing multistakeholderism, even for public
policy decision making, that many people have be touting here -
though never clearly telling what and how of it. (Ma only takes it a
clear one step forward, from equal footing to business leading it,
which, we all know is always the meaning and intention of the so
called equal footing MS model)... This is just the right
opportunity for multistakeholderist ideologues to clearly tell what
they want and support and what not...... They cannot remain silent
even now. They should either support Ma's proposal as just the kind
of thing they want, or say, no, this is not what they have always
asked for, and it is different in this and this manner.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<pre wrap="">On 12 May 2016, at 09:35, parminder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"><parminder@itforchange.net></a> wrote:
A recent announcement by Alibaba's founder Jack Ma exposes what the real
intent, and the problem, with business led multistakeholderism is,
something a lot of people/ groups have perhaps innocently got into
supporting.... He proposes a new business led initiative to frame global
e-commerce rules, which would rival the WTO, which can keep making them
for offline trade. And he is entirely serious, with Alibaba already
working with a number of groups and intending to present the proposal to
G 20 later this year.. To me it is a political shocker, but that is
where much of multistakholderism ideology is headed.
I wrote an op-ed on this issue in yesterday's The Hindu, which is at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-controlled/article8581476.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-controlled/article8581476.ece</a>
We must re-assess what does unhinging of the role of legitimate
political actors in key public policy areas means. It just transfers
power to a few global corporates to runs our societies as a
corporatocracy. Many of our discussions here on mulitistakeholderism as
a sovereign political form need to be seen in this context.
parminder
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