[bestbits] US style Multistakeholderism

[parminder]

On Monday 13 October 2014 11:39 PM, David Cake wrote:
> Seemed to almost entirely be a criticism of the US govts hypocrisy in 
> talking up its commitment to multi-stakeholderism while simultaneously 
> pursuing lobbyist led goals by other means.
> As a criticism of US govt hypocrisy, its fine.

Thanks David, that was the primary purpose of the posting.

> As a criticism of multi-stakeholderism, its incoherent.

If it is just incoherence that is your problem, you may like to read the 
following rather well argued and supported critique of 
multistakeholderism (MSism)

"State of Davos: The camel's nose in the tents of global governance" 
http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/state_of_davos_chapter.pdf

What is interesting is that it critiques practically every currently 
practised aspect of MSism in the global IG space, without ever referring 
to IG. Shows how MSism is not some special state of governance 
associated with the Internet's oft-claimed 'special nature'. It was not 
even invented by the IG guys... It was invented by hard neolibs of Davos 
kind, for obvious reasons. This is a governance model proposed by the 1 
% , which IG civil society, for a variety of reasons, has fallen prey to.

Equal footing MSism that actually aspires to participate equally in 
public policy decision making came to the IG space after it begun to get 
spoken in the WEF, especially in the Global Redesign Initiative of the 
WEF. I think that it started to make clear claims in the IG space around 
2009-10. Till then people were mostly just seeking/ ensuring no 'new' 
policy development or no 'new' policy institution development. It is 
post Davos theorisations of the Global Redesign Initiative kind that the 
brave new claim begun to be made in the IG space that corporates should 
actually participate in public policy decision making as equals. The 
recent misadventures of IG MSism towards Davos and WEF were rather an 
obvious thing waiting to happen. They are the same thing, more or less, 
with some good spin applied here and there, which would be applied right 
now since the first - over brash - effort of Davos to take over the 
global IG space suffered some set back. It was just a tactical mistake. 
It will be corrected. Powers are with them!

Happy reading..

parminder


>
> I particularly like the way it says we should have open and 
> transparent negotiation - and then in the next paragraph says we 
> should exclude Microsoft, Facebook, Google etc. Open, but only to 
> people they like? Essentially, advocating the same behaviour they just 
> decried in the US govt. Openness is like free speech -- you are either 
> for or against it, and if you are only in favour of it for people you 
> like, you aren't for it.
>
> And, of course, the author says it is terrible if there are back room, 
> secret negotiations - but also says lets exclude the largest 
> commercial organisations from open and transparent negotiations, 
> meaning non-public efforts would be their only option. Anyone think 
> that recipe works?
>
> But hey, look at the solution the author proposes - just change the 
> entire economy so most commercial organisations are organised as 
> workers collectives. Anyone else think that should be our focus for 
> action, just hope we can replace Facebook, Google, etc with workers 
> collectives?
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
> On 13 Oct 2014, at 12:31 am, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>> A report in the Pirate Party International's magazine on what is 
>> calls as US style multistakeholderism..
>>
>> http://piratetimes.net/democracy-and-hypocrisy-the-us-governments-multi-stakeholder-model/ 
>>
>>
>> parminder
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