[governance] AW: [tt-group] FW: GAID

[Michael Gurstein]

Avri,

I'm not really sure what you mean by "full participatory multistakeholder
systems" but I would have thought that we, as civil society should be
supporting a full participatory democratic process as the basis for both
national and global policy development.

I have very real concerns about the corporatist outcomes and forms that
"multistakeholder systems" seem to result in--a close look for example, at
classic multistakeholder systems like the IOC/Olympics structures don't give
one a lot of confidence in the broader benefits that are achieved as a
result of these processes. (The narrower benefits realized by the various
stakeholder beneficiaries and elites are rather easier to identify.)

Mike

(about to become a temporary refugee from the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Avri Doria [mailto:avri at psg.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 9:09 AM
To: IGC
Subject: Re: [governance] AW: [tt-group] FW: GAID



On 28 Dec 2009, at 11:29, Parminder wrote:

> Do we basically lack belief in global policies (polity) of any kind or 
> just in global policies made exclusively by intergovernmental forums 
> without due participation by civil society in the spirit of what has 
> come to be known as 'deepening democracy'?


I am not sure that we, in the sense of we the IGC, have a belief.

Personally, i believe that the only valid global policies would come from
full participatory multistakeholder systems.  while it may not always be the
case, the national state still fulfills a relevant function, but in my
personal opinion it is one of several equal partners in any debate.

So as long as we, in the sense of the IGC, are supporting the creation of a
well formed multistakeholder regime, we have something I believe in.  in my
life i work for (either in a volunteer sense or a professional sense) two
institutions that are working toward a multistakeholder future.  neither has
achieved that fully yet - each has a dominant force, in one the nations
states and in the other the private sector, but both are, in my opinion on
the right track an represent as far as we can get at this point.

a.

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