[bestbits] FW: [governance] Tweedledum andTweedledee WAS Re: Time-sensitive: 24 hour sign on period forITU Plenipot joint recommendations

[michael gurstein]

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Be afraid, be very afraid 
(or at least very wary).

I'm sure I don't need to tell seasoned negotiators like yourselves but Multi Stakeholderism is, in my experience, an insidious but effective approach (similar to the new trend in corporate/government fora such as the WEF or the annual Davos meetings) where corporates play a state-like role in many decision-making spheres thereby giving them direct decision-making (veto blocking, or conversation orienting) capabilities in regulatory decisions (typically those which affect their profits). 

Examples include big data and those same corporate's abilities to use certain technologies (such as profiling/personalisation meta-data) which may be considered by many governments part of their own regulatory or security interest. 

For people (like myself) who work in the ecology realm: multi-stakeholderism has been all the rage in the United Nations when it comes to Green tech and light touch "corporate responsibility" (anti command and control) "market-based" approaches to prevent effective action on climate change. Corporates as stake-holders (with a kind of one-dollar-one-vote notion of democracy) are often involved directly (or in parallel processes) in the world's climate change negotiations such as the COP UNFCCC processes currently in Peru and soon to play live in Paris. 

Having a seat at the table allows the corporate stakeholders to help prevent any serious democratic or government regulation from happening by being capable of stopping the regulation in their tracks. From my experience in monitoring the post-2015 UN Processes and even more so the Rio+20 corporate green-tech takeover, this multi-stakeholderism is a sort of deep pocketed capability of affecting any possible profit-negative decisions in the regulatory processes that ultimately affect all of our lives.

Tony

 

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Tony Phillips

Coordinating Editor; 
Europe on the Brink; 
Debt, Crisis and Dissent in the European Periphery: Zed Books <http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/europe-on-the-brink> 

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