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<p>That is where stakeholders who make a meaningful contribution as opposed
to steak holders who demand a stake just because comes into the picture. </p>
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<p style="margin: 10pt 0; color: black;">On 18 March 2014 7:20:03 am
stephanie perrin <stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:</p>
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<div><b>From: </b>Pranesh Prakash</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, March 17,
2014 1:41 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Anriette
Esterhuysen; Mawaki Chango; parminder</div><div><b>Reply To:
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id="_originalContent" style="">Dear Anriette and Mawaki,<br><br>Anriette
Esterhuysen <anriette@apc.org> [2014-03-17 10:12:36]:<br>> Good
points Mawaki. And good statement too. I do think that in this<br>>
paragraph you capture what many, if not most of us, understand by<br>>
inclusive policy making/multi-stakeholder participation in policy
making.<br><br>I'm not very sure about this. What Mawaki describes is
consultative and <br>inclusive policymaking. In this, relevant actors and
stakeholders are <br>*consulted* by the policymaker and their views are
used in policy <br>formulation. These stakeholders are *not* regarded as
"co-equals" at <br>the policy table since they do not jointly make the
decision. It seems <br>to me that there is a big difference between
consultative and inclusive <br>policymaking (e.g., the government issuing
white papers and green papers <br>and holding consultations, putting up the
submissions, issuing a <br>reasoned decision at the end of it, etc.) and
treating stakeholders as <br>co-decision-makers.<br><br>On the NCSG mailing
list, I recently asked (in response to Milton's <br>submission to
NetMundial, in which he uses the term "co-equal"):<br><br> * Governments,
through votes or through other means, have gained <br>political legitimacy
to represent their nation-state.<br><br> * Intergovernmental organizations
claim political legitimacy by being <br>membership-driven aggregations of
these nation-states, and seek to <br>espouse the 'global' point of view
(and do a poor job of it, very often).<br><br> * Business and technical
organizations claim political legitimacy both <br>by having historically
been in control of this network of networks, and <br>by the fact that there
is no way possible for its continued operation <br>without them.<br><br> *
Where do civil society actors (and academics), especially those many <br>of
us who *aren't membership organizations and don't have grassroot
<br>networks* to back us, get our political legitimacy from? What answer
<br>should we give when asked,
"Who died and made you king/queen/boss/co-equal?"<br><br><br>-- <br>Pranesh
Prakash<br>Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society<br>T: +91 80
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