[governance] Re: [bestbits] Three NETmundial submissions launched for endorsement at bestbits.net

[Pranesh Prakash]

parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> [2014-03-08 2:03:38]:
> Conversely, since there is considerable interest here in
> multistakeholder policy making, even at national levels, would you
> support pharma companies, for instance, sitting in bodies making -
> actually making - health and drug policies, and big publishers in
> education policy making, and so on...

Yes, I would support pharmaceutical companies actually being part of the 
health policy drafting process, just as I support publishers — the very 
publishers I've been fighting against in the parallel importation battle 
going on in India right now — having a role in policymaking around 
copyright.  It would be undemocratic, to say the least, to not have them 
at the table.

(That is not to say that I believe Wolfgang is right in the 
problem-solving abilities of multi-stakeholder decision-making processes 
by relying on IETF as the example.)

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