[bestbits] Debunking eight myths about multi-stakeholderism

[Nathalie Coupet]

Also, Barry, you forgot to mention that the people who are 'able and willing' to participate in decision-making processes might not always have the skills or competence to do so. 
Quality of decisions and work is also an issue.


Nathalie

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On Apr 24, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

> 
> On April 24, 2015 at 15:45 jmalcolm at eff.org (Jeremy Malcolm) wrote:
>> http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/debunking-eight-myths-about-multi-stakeholderism
> 
> That's all well and good and a nice easy read.
> 
> However it doesn't address what I think are the biggest concerns with
> multistakeholderism which are:
> 
> o How are stakeholders defined and selected? And by whom? How do we
>  ascertain that a stakeholder is legitimate?
> 
> o How are they enfranchised? For example, one stakeholder one vote? Or
>  some sort of proportional representation? By what metric?
> 
> o How does enfranchisement work other than a hand-wave to simple
>  majority of whoever happens to be in the room? How does workflow and
>  agenda work? Consensus? Majority assent? Committee? etc.
> 
> o What is the dispute resolution process? Is there a judiciary aspect?
> 
> At some point one has to get beyond simplistic claims that it's good
> because it's not bad and instead begin laying out structural details.
> 
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
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