AW: [governance] multistakeholderism

[Eric Dierker]

Paul,

Your point below is well taken. I suppose it is more complicated than a sound 
bite slogan.  What I am referring to is the taking to task of the corporations. 
 Government is doing what government does. Corporations are doing what 
corporations do.  The checks and balances are in place.  But just as these 
checks and balances only work with free press and good judiciary they also 
require individuals to drive all of the above. At this point in globalization 
and WTO and world bank and UN auspices the megabusiness end is well a running 
machine. The Judiciary is being bypassed by a technology age that makes the 
drudging of precedence and deliberation at snails pace damn near irrelevant -- 
anticybersquatting and the UDRP as examples.  Politicians cannot find a niche or 
angle for the net and so are not moving in that direction as to priorities. 
 News is boring, the internet stories are like reading baseball stats without 
ever watching the game. 

So it takes individual action.  Strong willed intelligent people who do not need 
kudos at every turn.  It is like a time of war where policy makers must be both 
warriors and statesmen although here and now it is more like Lawyers and 
Engineers and International mediators.  Individuals have not stepped up. 
 Corporate greed avarice and downright thievery is rampant because the checks on 
it are watching youtube and TV and not taking it personal. Legislatures cannot 
keep up with the new scams and infringements (not of patents but rights) because 
we are not making them.

So if you are going to enjoy the protection of a mean pit bull guard dog like 
corporations, you have to take responsibility to train it and discipline it.




On 8/18/10, Eric Dierker <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>No not corporate, individual.

I could more readily agree if you did not mean to exclude lack of
corporate accountability as a problem, but instead meant to emphasize
your point, regarding lack of individual accountability.  Can you
clarify?
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