AW: [governance] G8 Deauville Declaration

["Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"]

Michael
What we learned since the early years of the industrial revolution is that it's sometimes helpful to have strong political power to balance economic power.

Wolfgang:
Yes this is correct and I fully agree. However in todays world there is a missing element in this bilateral conflict-cooperation  (public-private) partnership and this "missing link" is what we call today the civil society (the citizen, at-large, the individual Internet user etc.). You can certainly argue that the government represents the civil society and, in a representative democracy  - to a certain degree - this is true. On the other hand, in our complex world the chain of representation - even in a democratic country - is so long that the input the civil society gives with its vote in democratic election does very often not produce the expected output at the other end of the chain of representation and the risk for 2hidden deals" between the two PP-partners is rather high. Insofar it is only natural that a third voice should sit on the table when government and industry is negotiating terms of conduct. If in Internet Governance big government goes together with big industry the small user is the big looser. 
 
Best regards

wolfgang

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