[governance] [bestbits] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

[Milton L Mueller]

________________________________________

> I agree with John's assessment that Montevideo statement may indeed be
> aiming at a larger IG ecology than just concerns ICANN plus' remit.

Not really. True, it criticizes impact of surveillance on trust, but its only specific calls for reform pertain to names and numbers governance.

> Also of interest is Andrew's observations from the Delhi meeting, where
> there was this talk of getting orphan IG issues - which could be like
> net neutrality, intellectual property on internet etc - under a
> multistakeholder kind of arrangement - ICANN based, or otherwise.

Oh sure, throw in "little" issues like IPR and net neutrality and you're sure to paralyze the summit and make sure it doesn't accomplish anything.

> And this way, what to my perhaps very opinionated self appears to be, a
> corporate dominated governance model is taking over tradtional
> democratic system of public policy  making. Others may have different
> views though.
>
> But the good thing is, now that we are clearly faced with the
> proposition - we all can/ should now  clearly express our views if we
> would like all kinds of substantive public policy issues to be decided
> by multistakeholder bodies a la ICANN etc, or we are better off with
> democracy as we know it.....

democracy as we know it doesn't scale. 
or perhaps we can test this proposition by having a vote-off on whether China's government should take over India. 
who do you think would get the largest number of votes?
;-)