[governance] Re: SECOND DRAFT statement on enhanced cooperation

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

The health care stmt was just an example to show, that personally I do support government action, especially on the local level.  I will avoid getting in to Off Topic details on what I think specifically on this topic.

Yes, I would like to see a multistakeholder process in the US on deciding all policy issues (including health care). In fact, again just as example, when I had the opportunity to discuss a particular state's (US definition of state) build out of broadband within that state, I proposed a specifically tailored multistakeholder model.  I see this model of policy making as the next step in democracy; multistakeholder model of policy creation is a form of representational democracy + participatory democracy.  And I see it as something we are still learning about.

Now you have added another topic, full consensus. I support idea of rough/near consensus, not full consensus.  But that would be another long topic on what that means and how that is achieved in a multistakeholder environment - another field in which we  are still growing in experience.

Sorry my model was not specific enough.  I propose a decentralized model that includes the groups that are already working on issues and avoids creating new centralized monoliths, though I do add the notion of appeals and arbitration mechanisms.  It is a model of step wise refinement, and model that includes the many things we see happening already in the 'IG grid' (i thought grids were an older model, but I don't mind the term, i like grids as long as they are not 2 dimensional).

I must note, that I was spoken to sternly, though privately, for wasting the group's time with theoretical discussions when real stuff was happening an real stuff needed to be decided.  So I will stop now.

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On 7 Nov 2010, at 05:34, parminder wrote:

> Avri, 
> 
> Thanks for your detailed response. A few responses/ questions for the present.
> 
> On Saturday 06 November 2010 08:28 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
>> 
>>> (BTW, a true practice of this ideology should entail giving up of all government provided benefits and protection, for the purpose of which ,in the present circumstances, maybe taking up residence in Southern Afganistan will be the best exemplar. Such an experience may be quite insightful.)
>>>     
>> Not my position, man. e.g.  I want a government led/regulated single payer health system in the US.  
>>   
> I am happy to hear that. But do you have a particular reason why US's health policy should not be decided only in completely open forums , which are fully multistakeholder, only if we get complete consensus, also fully involving health insurance companies and drug companies who must completely agree too? I am of course picking up from, what appears to me, is your preference for such a model for global IG. If not so, can you please again explain how policies get made in your model.
> 
> I really do not understand it. Isnt US gov like all other govs based on an imperfect representational system, which we shd continuously try to improve, *but not an the expense of creating a policy making vacuum*. 
> 
> Further, you  asked is your governance model 'specific enough'. Really, but I did not see any governance model for making global policies there. (CIRs is not what I am taking about.) I mean, can you tell me how I can have democratically negotiated cyber security treaties rather than done by the OECD and forced on others, same with Internet related issues included in ACTA, and much more is slated to come. All this will be pushed through FTAs on non OECD countries.  Many policies and preferences of the West just come through technology models - and we take it or leave it, such is the global might of the involved tech companies, who of course do much more carefully listen to US gov and stronger European countries. 
> 
> You think we need health policies but not Internet policies? Again, any particular reason? parminder 
> 
>> But you do a good job of arguing ad absurdum.  Be careful though.  When one argues the ad absurdum, I have found, there is always someone you can convince with your absurd argument.  Just look at recent US elections, people can be convinced of anything at times.  But that's representational democracy. I digress.
>> 
>>   
>>> >   
>>> > Any system systematically developing and enforcing public policies is in effect a government. we can have a good - more inclusive, transparent, accountable, progressive etc - government or governance system, or a bad one. 
>>>     
>> I disagree that governance is the province of governments. Any governance system can and should go beyond the governments.  First, all governments are just local affairs for some definition of local, with no world government either in existence or in the offing. Further, governments, the best of which have a strong representative democracy - and there are few that meet this criteria, are just touching the tip of what it means to be democratic.  True democracy builds its base on the representative 1 person 1 vote (though some are still just 1 man 1 vote, or just  1 landowner 1 vote ...) model, but goes far beyond that into participatory democracy.  Representative democracy may be the foundation of democracy, but it does not provide a full edifice for full democracy.
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