[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I think that is is dangerous and problematic to be abandoning the goal of Multistakeholder Governance.  Once you go back to the 'individual is the thing', you have played into the Government position that they are the representatives of the individuals within their borders.

Yes, each of the Stakeholders needs to find a democratic foundation and there has to be a fair and representative relationship in relation to the governance, an we need to make sure that we do not limit the number of character of the stakeholder groups - there may be more the 3/4/5 currently defined in Internet governance.  but blatant individual-votism will just bring up back to the old notions that it is the nation state that is the individual's representative and support those who think Ig is just a matter of multilateral decision making.

a.

On 24 Feb 2010, at 05:18, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Second, We need to stop habitually using "multi-stakeholderism" as our label for good governance and appropriate institutions; MS is at best a transitional phase implying a motion from purely intergovernmental toward a more open, democratic forms of global governance. In this progression, we need to have a clearer idea of what the end point is - and MS is not it. In a world of perfect global governance the artificial division of society into "estates" such as "government, business and civil society" no longer exists; it is the individual that matters. In relation to this, I really enjoy the way P. skewers the double standard at work in the MS discourse, noting how MS is used to fend off certain political actors in this context but somehow does not apply when it is ACTA, WIPO or WTO. MS is about process but not substance, and policy substance is what matters ultimately. 

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