<div dir="ltr">Parminder,<div><br></div><div>You wrote: </div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style><i>"Coalition for Privacy and Free Trade " is exactly the kind of issue based network that are getting formed. (Bertrand, please note.)</i></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for flagging me :-) Sorry I did not pick it up earlier. </div><div><br></div><div>This coalition is not at all an issue-based governance network of the sort I was alluding to. It is a traditional advocacy group - without taking any sides on the substance of their position. They call themselves a coalition and I think it does not leave room for ambiguity. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Issue-based governance networks need to be multi-stakeholder and, by definition, should include and actors with divergent perspectives and interests (the relevant stakeholders, whatever the criteria are). They also need to have deliberation procedures of sort...</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do not accept the argument that the creation of an additional advocacy group undermines the concept of issue-based governance networks. </div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>
<br></div><div>Bertrand</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:55 PM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Monday 01 April 2013 11:26 PM, michael gurstein wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/daniel-weitzner-internet-privacy" target="_blank">http://www.motherjones.com/<u></u>politics/2013/03/daniel-<u></u>weitzner-internet-privacy</a><br>
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Regulatory capture in action?<br>
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And what better way to ensure regulatory capture at the global level than to<br>
ensure that there are no global regulatory frameworks or mechanisms that<br>
will ultimately need to be captured?<br>
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"Coalition for Privacy and Free Trade " is exactly the kind of issue based network that are getting formed. (Bertrand, please note.) And we know what they are upto. Soon there will be others, that is the trend, like perhaps one led by Shell on green economy, and Nike on labour friendliness.... No, this is not acceptable, We are better off with evolving old fashioned democratic systems from within, with a deepening democracy focus.... We have seen movements, especially in Europe, of a new kind of democratic politics bypassing the existing political party captures - that is where I would put my hopes instead of these dangerous neolib trends. I appeal to the civil society to recognise the dangers that we are headed towards in all this mushy talk of "equality of all stakeholders in decision making" (read, corporate led 'governance' systems), and issue based networks as the prime next gen governance paradigm...<br>
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