[governance] IGF delhi format

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Peake [mailto:ajp at glocom.ac.jp]
>> About the multi-stakeholder organization of
>> workshops -- always intended to be a principle
>> not a rule.  And as the caucus / civil society
> 
> What those workshops need is not necessarily representation of multiple
> stakeholders, if by "stakeholder" we mean business, govt and civil
> society. What the workshops need, and badly, is a diversity of views.

I very much agree with that. It is not easy to enforce though. How would 
you prove that workshop organizers invited only token stakeholders of 
the other camps? What is more, if people are not sympathetic to your 
issue or approach, they may boycott it by refusing to co-organize or 
participate. While diversity of views supports the spirit of the IGF, in 
practice it is not always easy to implement.
jeanette
  A
> panel on free expression, e.g., can always find a token businessperson
> or CS rep who favors (or opposes) freedom of expression in a specific
> policy context. The workshops are useless unless the leading and most
> articulate advocates of, say, more restrictive content regulation are on
> the _same_ panel as the leading and most articulate advocates of less
> content regulation. Then these workshops might lead to something.
> 
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