[bestbits] substantive proposals for Brazil summit - IG governance

[Carolina Rossini]

Agree. It would be important to incorporate this in our contributions.
March 1st is the deadline.


On Monday, February 3, 2014, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> On 3 Feb 2014, at 3:51 am, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ian.peter at ianpeter.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>   Multistakeholderism is, to at least some parties, a wonderful mask to
> aid industry dominance with no governmental involvement whatsoever.  And
> here the dominant industry players often find willing supporters in the
> technical community. I think civil society needs to be clear that, if it
> supports multistakeholderism, it is not giving support to no governmental
> involvement at all or to unregulated industry dominance. I think this is a
> real debate we have to have.
>
> And I think we need to be honest about the fact that not all stakeholders
> have equal power in this - civil society arguments do not carry the weight
> of the large internet corporations, and to pretend that ms-ism somehow
> changes this imbalance is either naive or deliberately misleading.
>
> I mention this here because, by the looks of Brazil and the way the agenda
> is shaping up, we are going to talk about principles for governance, and
> this word multistakeholderism is going to be front and centre. I think we
> need to unwrap it a little and state clearly that the real issues going on
> are between governmental and industry control, neither of which of itself
> is of itself a satisfactory model.
>
>
> Brilliantly put Ian.  Agree that this will be a key differentiator between
> what civil society puts forward for the meeting and what (if anything) 1net
> may put forward.
>
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