<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Oh, so this man's idea of multistakeholderism is now redefined as "give civil society a seat at the table but keep those evil corporates out"? </div><div><br></div><div>And "big data" is on a par with "big tobacco", "big oil" etc?</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting, and even funny, screed, I must say. <br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 27-Oct-2014, at 04:48, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">With permission…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:projectallende@gmail.com">projectallende@gmail.com</a> [<a href="mailto:projectallende@gmail.com">mailto:projectallende@gmail.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Project Allende<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 26, 2014 3:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rhill@hill-a.ch">rhill@hill-a.ch</a><br><b>Cc:</b> michael gurstein; JNC Forum<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: <DKIM> Re: [JNC - Forum] [bestbits] FW: [governance] Tweedledum andTweedledee WAS Re: Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period forITU Plenipot joint recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Be afraid, be very afraid <br>(or at least very wary).<br><br>I'm sure I don't need to tell seasoned negotiators like yourselves but Multi Stakeholderism is, in my experience, an insidious but effective approach (similar to the new trend in corporate/government fora such as the WEF or the annual Davos meetings) where corporates play a state-like role in many decision-making spheres thereby giving them direct decision-making (veto blocking, or conversation orienting) capabilities in regulatory decisions (typically those which affect their profits). <br><br>Examples include big data and those same corporate's abilities to use certain technologies (such as profiling/personalisation meta-data) which may be considered by many governments part of their own regulatory or security interest. <br><br>For people (like myself) who work in the ecology realm: multi-stakeholderism has been all the rage in the United Nations when it comes to Green tech and light touch "corporate responsibility" (anti command and control) "market-based" approaches to prevent effective action on climate change. Corporates as stake-holders (with a kind of one-dollar-one-vote notion of democracy) are often involved directly (or in parallel processes) in the world's climate change negotiations such as the COP UNFCCC processes currently in Peru and soon to play live in Paris. <br><br>Having a seat at the table allows the corporate stakeholders to help prevent any serious democratic or government regulation from happening by being capable of stopping the regulation in their tracks. From my experience in monitoring the post-2015 UN Processes and even more so the Rio+20 corporate green-tech takeover, this multi-stakeholderism is a sort of deep pocketed capability of affecting any possible profit-negative decisions in the regulatory processes that ultimately affect all of our lives.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Tony<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>Forum mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Forum@justnetcoalition.org">Forum@justnetcoalition.org</a><br><a href="http://justnetcoalition.org/mailman/listinfo/forum_justnetcoalition.org" target="_blank">http://justnetcoalition.org/mailman/listinfo/forum_justnetcoalition.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Tony Phillips</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Coordinating Editor; <br>Europe on the Brink; <br>Debt, Crisis and Dissent in the European Periphery: <a href="http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/europe-on-the-brink" target="_blank">Zed Books</a></i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>____________________________________________________________</span><br><span>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:</span><br><span> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a></span><br><span>To be removed from the list, visit:</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>For all other list information and functions, see:</span><br><span> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a></span><br><span>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>