[governance] identity - an IG-related issue that crosses boundaries

[Garth Graham]

On 10-Mar-06, at 6:03 PM, Bertrand de La Chapelle wrote:

> This polity needs governance mechanisms as different from the  
> traditional representative democracy of the industrial age as  
> representative democracy itself was from the feudal and monarchic  
> regimes of the agricultural age. What we have come to call multi- 
> stakeholderism is an other name for internet-supported  
> participative democracy.

And I agree with that, except for that word "needs."  What I mean by  
referring to governance "by" the Internet is that the polity coming  
into being already "has" those governance mechanisms.  In relating  
peer-to- peer, Internet Protocol acts as a new form of social contract.

GG
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