[governance] Review Panels

[Paul Lehto]

The term "stakeholders" -- while honestly intended by some or even
many -- nevertheless boils down to this:

1. Take whatever one person one vote democratic accountability that exists, and

2. RECONFIGURE it in terms of "stakeholders", which, allowing for
variation amounts to:

3. Redesigning governance to eliminate accountability to democracy
(and/or INFLUENCE in democracy if it remains) in order that
"stakeholders" typically divide up 100% of the influence pie:

corporate vendors, get, say a "reasonable" 25% of the total,

administrative bureaucrats 20-50%,

possibly some hand selected public interest types notable for their
agreeable natures not so much in personality as with "go along with
policy to get along" and not rocking the boat - 25% (but not taken
seriously at any time) and

notable experts and sometimes policy wonks or dignitaries - 20-50%

The StakeHolder approach leaves the important impression that "all the
bases have been covered" -- but that's true only under the new rules -
of governance or of influence as the case may be.

Paul Lehto, Juris Doctor


On 10/15/09, Bertrand de La Chapelle <bdelachapelle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Could this list also address Anriette's concrete second question ? What do
> you think the review process should be ? Fundamentally, the community is
> facing a now recurring problem (cf. WGIG, MAG,...) : how to compose a
> multi-stakeholder group for a given task, so that it is sufficiently
> diverse, balanced and representative of the variety of viewpoints ?
>
> In addition, what do you tink the timing is ?
>
> Best
>
> Bertrand
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen
> <anriette at apc.org>wrote:
>
>> snip
>>
>> Second question is about the submissions on the review panels. What is
>> the process likely to be?
>>
>> Anriette
>>
>>
>>
>
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