[governance] enhanced consultations - further inputs

[Roland Perry]

In message <4CF9CFC6.6080508 at itforchange.net>, at 10:51:10 on Sat, 4 Dec 
2010, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
>
>On Friday 03 December 2010 07:46 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
>  In message <4CF8C38E.8030507 at itforchange.net>, at 15:46:46 on Fri, 3
>  Dec 2010, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> writes
>    Dear Roland,
>    At least I have mentioned it several times why it doesnt meet my
>>    approval (and that of most developing country actors) . Let me
>>    say it
>>    again - I and my country are not represented in CoE/ OECD
>>    initiatives.
>>    Do you think this is not a good enough reason? Does democracy and
>>    global democracy count for anything?
>
>>  That depends whether or not there's anything fundamentally wrong
>  with the initiatives.
 >
>Who decides what is wrong or not?
 >
In the context of the initiatives mentioned - the countries who would 
sign up to them (or not).
 >
>The corresponding question - since I
>asked if democracy counts for anything - is how does lack of democracy
>in a country matter if 'things are working well', whatever it means.
 >
The decision processes within those countries is a local issue. I'm not 
sure that we can assert that the need to have a democratic policy 
development process for Internet Governance, is enough to overthrow the 
local systems which already develop policy on thousands of other issues.
 >
>For a global civil society group, the lack of enthusiasm for global
>democracy here worries me a lot.

We've seen what happens when you try to organise 190 governments into a 
global telecoms policy development process - it's called the ITU. With 
that many people potentially having an opinion, and many issues to 
discuss, no wonder the result is 3 week meetings with 2,000 attendees.

I don't know an easy way to scale that up to include multiple 
stakeholders from 190 countries. There's a danger of inventing a 
decision-making IGF, and I don't want to impose a discussion about that 
upon the list.
-- 
Roland Perry
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