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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Parminder:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>When did you become such an adherent of the ideology of “stakeholderism”? I thought you were healthily critical of it. One of the key problems with MSism is that there are no clear boundaries between stakeholder groups, esp in civil society, and the process of selecting “representatives” of such groups is fraught with opportunities for manipulation. The claim, for example, that marginalized people in developing countries are represented by their governments, whose policies are often the cause of their lack of resources and marginalization, needs to be questioned. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>--MM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>It is an officially stated position, especially in varoius MAG reforms discussions, that selection is stakeholder group based. The current discussion here in the WG on IGF improvements is on increasing 'representation' of under represented groups, including developing countries. In this context, contesting stakeholder group or constituency basis of membership of the MAG makes a discussion on improving representation of marginalized group quite meaningless. That is my problem, coming from being situated in the middle of such a discussion here in the WG, which triggered my response. I am sorry that the term offended you. It was used in the sense of a 'good imagined thing that doesnt happen in reality' and not meant specifically for what you said but for the general 'just representing oneself' proposition often made in this kind of a discussion.<br><br>Parminder <br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>jeanette <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><br>The member list is here: <br><br><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/406-mag-2010">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/406-mag-2010</a> <br><br>jeanette <br><br><br>and the division between developing and developed <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>countries? <br><br>That would be much appreciated <br><br>Marilia <br>-- <br>Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade <br>FGV Direito Rio <br><br>Center for Technology and Society <br>Getulio Vargas Foundation <br>Rio de Janeiro - Brazil <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>____________________________________________________________ <br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list: <br><a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a> <br>To be removed from the list, visit: <br><a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a> <br><br>For all other list information and functions, see: <br><a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a> <br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: <br><a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a> <br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>____________________________________________________________ <br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list: <br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a> <br>To be removed from the list, visit: <br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a> <br><br>For all other list information and functions, see: <br> <a href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance">http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</a> <br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see: <br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a> <br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>