[governance] Where are we with IGC workshops?

[Michael Leibrandt]

Wolfgang,

you rightly brought up the issue of economic and political power. The cs discussion on future IG (as well as general IS) settings does not only lack a clear vision of an alternative model, but also widely ignores the somewhat brutal realities of an ongoing process in which particular global players now want to make their claim for the decades to come. Internationalization understood as `present setting minus US government plus no other governments`is not only not a multistakehoder concept, but will also not be able to counter the forces you decribed pretty well. I know that categories of `power`are something cs does usually not feel very comfortable with. But as a fact, to achieve valuable goals powerful new coalitions are needed to make sure that the global IS remains an open place with low barriers to enter for everybody. This touches the question if the business community or democratic governments are the preffered partners for cs. To exclude the latter option by pointing to countries like Syria is like excluding more cs influence in global policy making by pointing to the Klu Klux Klan.

Michael 
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