[governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand

[Deirdre Williams]

Horrible and mis-leading. The "stakeholder" by definition does not in fact
"have a stake in" something but is the disinterested outsider who holds the
stake - as a trustee - until the matter is resolved. "Multi-stakeholder"
appears to be attempting to label all of those who have a stake (interest)
in the "something" in this case the Internet and its governance. If the term
is deconstructed are there many of us, or, individually, do we have many
"stakes" or interests? A very confusing term, and doomed to be lost in
translation.
Deirdre

On 3 March 2010 08:31, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:

> Why not replace the horrible word "multistakeholderism" with
> "pluralism"? We would always complement it with (or contrapose it to)
> "multilateralism", and there are one-word translations in most
> languages, I guess.
>
> An anglicism which is also a neologism in English, and on top of it is
> an horrible word, frankly... where are the Germans, the French, sacré bleu?
>
> --c.a.
>
> Avri Doria wrote:
> > On 2 Mar 2010, at 23:42, Parminder wrote:
> >
> >> Unless those arguing for MS-ism as the basic new governance form clearly
> articulate a response to this question, it is difficult to go any further in
> this discussion.
> >
> >
> > I would argue for it, but it does not seem worth doing so in this
> antagonistic atmosphere.  When I find a nice calm situation where I can
> spend several months working out a clear articulation that would withstand
> the aggressive squeeze play attack of Milton & Parminder, I will get back to
> you.  For now I will declare that for me, it is a pragmatic matter of
> realizing it is the only game in town.
> >
> > I repeat myself when i say that I think you risk the only chance civil
> society has of having any real participation in Internet governance if you
> and Milton succeed in muddying the waters on multistakeholder Internet
> governance.
> >
> > a.
> >
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