[governance] multistakeholderism

[jefsey]

At 05:05 19/08/2010, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>I agree that civil society must promote the adoption of a framework 
>for further democratising global governance (for which 
>"multistakeholderism" is just a convenient and slightly inaccurate 
>shorthand), beyond the Internet governance regime, in which it is 
>really just a test-bed.

By the way, I would be interested in having a clear definition of 
what is the "civil society" you people refer to. The various 
definitions and understandings I read around and in Wikipedia are 
diverse and do not seem necessarily adequate; or you should organize 
and show yourselves in a very different way.

For example, if one picks the main definition given by Wikipedia, 
this includes: organizations such as registered charities, 
development non-governmental organizations, community groups, women's 
organizations, faith-based organizations, professional associations, 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union>trade unions, self-help 
groups, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movement>social 
movements, business associations, coalitions and advocacy groups.

1. who on this list is representing an organization?
2. which organizations are in this coalition?

I also have a major problem with this definition: where is the 
political control by the citizens, i.e. the political parties? They 
can hardly be associated to Governements they may oppose. Yet, their 
control of the network adminance is crucial since one builds there 
the terms of the possible policy for the years and decades to come.

When I was once a candidate to the ICANN BoD on behalf the GA, I used 
that capacity to try to federate some Consumer organizations. There 
was some interest on their side, but none on the GA and on the ICANN side.

jfc 
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