[governance] Innovation

[Norbert Bollow]

Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:

> Back here in the US there was a thing known as a "company union" - see 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_union
> 
> This was a technique used during the latter 1800's and early 1900's by 
> companies that wanted to crush the voice of workers by creating a 
> plausible substitute for independent worker-formed, worker-controlled 
> unions.
> 
> These substitute company unions were formed by the company.  The company 
> provided money and time off work for employees to attend meetings.  Of 
> course this company union tended to adopt mild stances and was not quite 
> willing to bite the hand that fed it.
> 
> You might begin sense a resemblance between these company unions and the 
> ALAC.

Sounds like it might be wise to establish the internet governance
equivalent of genuine, independent unions.

Given that such a new structure aiming to genuinely represent
internet users would probably have to be operated on extremely
limited financial resources (since otherwise it would quickly
lose its independence through being financially dependent on
its donors), how could it be set up to make it genuinely
democratic and robust against forgery of votes etc?

Greetings,
Norbert.


-- 
Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG    http://SIUG.ch
Working on establishing a non-corrupt and
truly /open/ international standards organization  http://OpenISO.org
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