Multi-Equal Stakeholderism (was Re: [bestbits] Joint civil society endorsements for London meeting of High-Level Panel)

[Shahzad Ahmad]

I vaguely remember him using this at APrIGF Seoul as well.

Interesting!

Best wishes and regards
Shahzad

From:  Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
Date:  Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 8:57 PM
To:  Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Cc:  McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com>, Anja Kovacs
<anja at internetdemocracy.in>, "&lt,bestbits at lists.bestbits.net&gt
<mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net&gt> ," <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject:  Re: Multi-Equal Stakeholderism (was Re: [bestbits] Joint civil
society endorsements for London meeting of High-Level Panel)

concept of "multi-equal-stakeholder" was introduced by Fadi Chehadé soon
after he joined ICANN last year.  Might have been used before, but something
he's spoken of often.  It will be in meeting transcripts from around Oct
2012, or see, example,

http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/10/15/icanns-new-ceo-talks-about-bala
nce-of-power/

http://www.dotgreen.org/blogs-updates/new-season/

Adam


On Dec 1, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

>  On 30 Nov 2013, at 9:31 pm, McTim <mctimconsulting at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>>  Also, if someone could guide me to a space where I can find out more about
>> "multi-equal-stakeholderism" and its origins, I'd be grateful - first time I
>> hear about this.
>>  
>>  This is a very good question.  I don't know much about non-Internet-y
>> multi-equal-ness, but I think the purest form of multi-equal stakeholderism
>> in IG can be found in some of the RIR PDPs and the IETF processes.
>  
>  It's an odd choice of example, since many would say the IETF is not
> multi-stakeholder all, since it does not recognise stakeholder groups.  Where
> multi-equal stakeholderism is usually used specifically in reference to
> organisations that do recognise stakeholder groups, to indicate that they
> should be equal to one another in process terms.  This distinguishes it from
> forms of multi-stakeholderism like at the OECD and purportedly at the ITU,
> that don't recognise equality between the stakeholders.  So it's an attempt to
> refine the term multi-stakeholderism.  I have to say, I don't really like the
> term though.
>  
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