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<p>for asking the good:relevant question !</p>
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<p>Thiis questioning reminds me the beginning of the WSIS 2nd phase in Geneva where we saw tens of "spontaneous born" Tunesian "simili ONG" (we called them Onot reallyNGs) flooding in the process, after having been agreed by the WSIS Secretariat. These new breed of "ONGs" have deliberately sabotaged the CS Plenaries when it came to examine or question the HR issues in Ben Ali's country. </p>
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<p>What's more, those tunesian true ONGs, mainly grass-roots, who tried to inform us (the CS Plenary and its relevant committees) about the tunesian regime abuses didn't get the "WSIS aggreement" from the Secretariat and we -the CS and our tunesian friends orgs- had to move our meetings with their representatives from the official WSIS Prepcom site (ILO) to the Oecumenical Center some hundreds meter away from the ILO premises.</p>
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<p>This was a sad experience of "selective multistakeholderism" and "freedom od expression" inside the WSIS paradise !</p>
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<p>Unless to mention that we found our WSIS banned tunesian friends Orgs and their activists in the forefront of the "Tunis Spring". And the same that have previously banned them from the WSIS welcomed the "new rise of Tunesia" made possible .... by the WSIS activities and the overall virtue of ICT and Internet !</p>
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<p>As we use to say in French : "plus faux-cul que cela tu meurs". </p>
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<p>Best regards</p>
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<p>Jean-Louis Fullsack<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Reading your contribution I’m left with more questions than answers I’m afraid..</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;"><br />> I have tried my best, in last many months/ years, but have been unable to understand how getting big business reps to have "equal footing" parity with government reps (however imperfectly elected govs they may come from) in terms of <strong><em>making actual decisions on public policy issues</em></strong> is compatible with democracy. That is what I call anti- or post-democracy.<br />> <br />> And that is the precise issue/ question I posted yesterday with respect to the principles submission proposed by some civil society groups including yours, but got no response.<br />> <br />> However, if you think it is compatible with democracy do please explain. We will withdraw the the anti-democratic label..<br />> <br />> <br />> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">I’ve taken the trouble here and elsewhere to lay out some, what I think are serious issues concerning MSism…</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">I’m still waiting for you or anyone to make some significant counters to those arguments or even address them in some serious way (something with a bit more substance than red herrings about Chinese billionaires and Mr. Cameron…</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">You are evidently a strong supporter of MSism. Perhaps you could give me a response to my comments/criticisms or suggest how my arguments are incorrect or my experiences are inconclusive.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Actually, far from being tedious, there are interesting and multi stakeholder ideas in your proposition which in a different place and in a different mood would be good to explore.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Unfortunately your ideas don’t seem to be on the table in the WGEC or WSIS reviews and I doubt that the nine billionaires who run the Chinese Communist party, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Mr Putin or Mr Cameron my own prime minister would be too interested. So I’d rather not see them in control of the internet thank you very much – which was inter state governance would mean (as opposed to ushering in a new era of global democracy). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">As it happens I’ve spent thirty years trying to promote democracy and human rights so your gratuitous insults wash off me but I’m curious as to why you feel the need to insult anyone who disagrees with you? It is not an effective means of persuasion in my experience so I suggest we terminate this exchange from now.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">It involved strengthening broad structures of governance, putting technology infrastructures into (the right) place(s), training, developing appropriate mechanisms for consultation/decision making… And yes the answer was multi-stakeholder … but… not multistakeholderist… multi-stakeholder within a context which could accommodate and contain and make multi-stakeholder consultation and participation meaningful and useful for all concerned including to strengthen democratic governance and particularly figuring out how to get governmental structures to adapt and respond. To some degree this would be done in parallel to existing democratic processes but interwoven with them to use the democracy to reinforce the consultations and the consultations to deepen and reinforce the democracy.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Sorry if this is tedious and not glib enough for you but given world enough and time my guess is that this kind of thing could work as well in Ouagadougou as in downtown Tehran… not sure about Hackney/Georgetown but it seems to work well enough in Teeside and if we can get these things to work in Ouga and Tehran and Teeside – well “first we take Manhattan and then we take Berlin.. *</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">(And BTW it’s not me who is agitating to jettison 300 or so years of democracy in favour of some pig in a poke hatched in some US think tank and being foisted on the world by a self-interested cabal of the US State Department, Google, various other OECD private corps, and certain selected “civil society” organizations including your own it would appear**</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">However, evoking (over and over and over…) the undefined, undescribed, undetailed multistakeholderist mantra doesn’t get us any closer… </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">The continuous shapeshifting by the proponents of the MS meme whenever they are challenged to get real --well this isn’t quite “MSism”, it isn’t true MSism, it will be better next time MSism, doesn’t do anyone a service (except the “wizards” behind the curtains). </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">From my own experience, whenever MSism “gets real” it falls apart—either it doesn’t have any operational processes or related significant structures of accountability so it can’t handle even the most insignificant of challenges without some form of full on offensive/defensive onslaught or it simply ignores the issue and moves on. Nor can it handle even the most inconsequential of divergences/diversities of opinion—the drive towards convergence/consensus (and the associated processes of marginalization and exclusion) are terrifying to me if there were any real chance of scaling. In the last century we had a lot of experience (and several names) for political systems that couldn’t deal with challenge, divergence, conflict and insisted on a managed consensus and forced choices “or else… </span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">This may work for a Wizard of Oz space like 1Net where even as the curtain gets repeatedly bunched up revealing the (“non-existent”—we have it on the highest possible authority—trust us) wizard pulling the strings and T & A appears to consist of repeated choruses of “trust them it will get better” by a fawning self-selected “Steering Committee”, but surely in our world we might expect something with a slightly higher reality component.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">On 5 Mar 2014, at 7:49 pm, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">So, request a clear response - do you mean <strong><em>parity</em></strong> in <strong><em>decision making</em></strong> about <strong><em>public policies </em></strong>between gov and non gov actors.... And this is not a petty point... Half of the time of the WGEC got taken on this kind of discussion. This is the single most important point today, if we can clarify nd possibly agree on this point - rest is not too difficult... Lets accept what is the key point, and not skirt it...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Different people who contributed to the submission, even if they all endorse the final result, will probably give you different answers to that question. I'm not sure that anyone is interested in what my personal answer is because I'm just an individual, but I would say no I do not accept as a general proposition that parity in decision making is appropriate, which is why I personally objected to that language being used.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">For some issues, it will be appropriate that the stakeholders act as equals in the decision making process (to the extent that there is a "decision" at all). In other areas, it won't be appropriate and may be more appropriate that although all stakeholders are involved, one of them will legitimately take a bigger role than the others. For example governments may take a leading role in transnational human rights disputes, the technical community may do so in developing spam filtering standards, civil society may do so in developing human rights based principles for judging government surveillance practices, and even the private sector may do so, say in setting prices for the trading of IPv4 addresses.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">This also implies that the appropriate mechanism of governance may differ in each case, eg. laws, standards, markets. The above all follows naturally if you accept that there are no fixed stakeholder roles, because the appropriate roles will differ depending on the circumstances.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">BTW, the German government has the following to say in its submission to NetMundial<br />> <br />> ...<br />> <br />> Do you for instance agree to the above formulation, or NOT...</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Nope, don't agree with the German government's formulation because it maintains the fallacy of fixed stakeholder roles.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: black;">Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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