[governance] Proposal: 10 stakeholder categories

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Sorry for this but I found the analogy so very tempting:

In "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins," Jorge Luis Borges 
describes "a certain Chinese Encyclopedia," the Celestial Emporium of 
Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are divided into:

1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the present classification,
9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12. others,
13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
14. those that from a long way off look like flies.






Norbert Bollow schrieb:
> How about extending the number of recognized stakeholder categories
> to ten?
> 
> I'd suggest something like the following:
> 
> 1) Governments of industrialized nations
> 2) Governments of developing countries
> 3) Inter-governmental organizations
> 
> 4) Civil society organizations focused on technical concerns
> 5) Civil society organizations focused on fundamental rights
> 6) Civil society organizations focused on development concerns
> 
> 7) ISPs
> 8) Software vendors and IT consulting businesses
> 9) Other businesses
> 
> 10) People who choose to participate in internet governance
>    discussions as individuals, without representing the interests
>    of any organization or recognizing any organization as representing
>    their interests.
> 
> With this set-up, the understanding of "multistakeholder" as giving
> equal weight to each of the three main categories "government",
> "civil society" and "business" is preserved, while recognizing the
> fundamental differences with regard to internet governance which exist
> within each of these broad categories.
> 
> Of course, some organizations fall into more than one category.  For
> example, the Swiss Internet User Group works on technical concerns
> and also in the area of fundamental rights.  Therefore, if I was a
> candidate for the MAG or whatever, I would indicate that I'd represent
> stakeholder category 4 with weight 0.5 and stakeholder category 5 with
> weight 0.5
> 
> The goal of this proposed refinement of the system of stakeholder
> categories is to make it easier to select a MAG and other
> multistakeholder groups with truly balanced diversity.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert.
> 
> 
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