[bestbits] [governance] Now business wants to lead policy making

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Parminder, FWIW, he’s been saying this for about a year, and he keeps suggesting new intergovernmental fora where he’s going to bring this up but so far, I’ve not noticed anyone else taking this idea up.

> On 12 May 2016, at 09:35, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> 
> A recent announcement by Alibaba's founder Jack Ma exposes what the real
> intent, and the problem, with business led multistakeholderism is,
> something a lot of people/ groups have perhaps innocently got into
> supporting.... He proposes a new business led initiative to frame global
> e-commerce rules, which would rival the WTO, which can keep making them
> for offline trade.  And he is entirely serious, with Alibaba already
> working with a number of groups and intending to present the proposal to
> G 20 later this year.. To me it is a political shocker, but that is
> where much of multistakholderism ideology is headed.
> 
> I wrote an op-ed on this issue in yesterday's The Hindu, which is at
> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-borderless-economy-that-will-be-controlled/article8581476.ece
> 
> We must re-assess what does unhinging of the role of legitimate
> political actors in key public policy areas means. It just transfers
> power to a few global corporates to runs our societies as a
> corporatocracy. Many of our discussions here on mulitistakeholderism as
> a sovereign political form need to be seen in this context.
> 
> parminder
> 
> 
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