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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 11 July 2015 02:06 AM,
"Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:<br>
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Hi.
here is an interersting article from the BRICS Meeting in The Hindu:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/brics-leaders-meet-in-ufa-for-the-annual-summit/article7400020.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/brics-leaders-meet-in-ufa-for-the-annual-summit/article7400020.ece</a></pre>
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One is indeed thankful to the Net Mundial Initiative (NMI) for
giving a concrete body to what multistakeholderism (with regard to
public policy issues, and for God's sake not technical management
and stuff)) is all about - something that was being desperately
avoided till now.<br>
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It confirms some fundamental facts about multistakeholderism
(repeat, with regard to public policy issues).<br>
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1. it is more to obfuscate and stall movement on such issues than to
contribute anything concrete. As NMI has indeed been principally
formed to anticipate and nullify any possibilities from the WSIS
plus 10 process, something that the chief achitect of NMI, Fad,i has
more or less openly stated. So, we keep hearing more empty
statements, and see more non-activity disguised as activity.
(Pointing to issue mapping done by others can hardly be described as
a contribution.) Nobody has any idea what this Initiative is really
meant to do or is going to do, but we are supposed to cheer it
nonetheless. <br>
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2. MSism is really about big business's domination of public policy
processes, and a platform using which big business could influence
them early, mostly with a view to stall and veto any 'undesirable'
possibilities. Developments about the NMI continues to prove this
fact. But just because they have roped in a big business from China
(one which is the only Internet business on the governing body of
the WEF, and so a bit obvious), one that certainly has global
ambitions and footprints, for some strange reason we are supposed to
get extremely happy.<br>
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3. On a lesser note, with due apologies, it is about cooptation, and
keeping a lot of civil society leaders occupied and happy. Which
inter alia defangs civil society capacity .<br>
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Wolfgang, btw, wanted a clarification, your article ends with 'there
is a lot to do' immediately after the sentence about BRICS
underlining "the need for a universal regulatory binding instrument
on combating the criminal use of ICTS under UN auspices." Did not
understand what you meant here. Thanks for clarifying.<br>
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parminder<br>
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and here is my article on the Net Mundial Council Meeting in Circle ID
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150709_quintett_leads_net_mundial_initiative_enabling_multistakeholder/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150709_quintett_leads_net_mundial_initiative_enabling_multistakeholder/</a>
Wolfgang
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