[governance] Caucus at IGF stock taking meeting

[Veni Markovski]

I am not sure who wrote that (checking my mai online)...

> > The principle of no taxation without representation is fundamental to
> > democratic governance.

...but there's something in the last word which bothers me. Perhaps it
should have been "governments", not "governance".

Because would anyone argue that there were lots of taxes in East
Europe before 1989? And although there was in fact democratic
governance in the last few years in some of the countries there,
hardly would have anyone named the governments there democratic. Yet
people somehow wer not represented really in the parliaments, and
elections were usually won with 99.1 % (which always made me wonder
who were the 0.9 %, but that's another story).

So, the principle is fundamental to democratic governments, not to
democratic governance. Democratic governance seems like the principle
of democratic centralism, which was founding principle of the
"developed socialist society".

This discussion should be aimed at more pratcical issues, and not so
much into academic, or political context. Let's see which countries
have started to open towards multistakeholders involvment in the
issues, related to Internet Governance since Athens. Or may be since
WSIS 2005?

veni
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