[governance] G8 Deauville Declaration

[Michael Leibrandt]

Dear Wolfgang,

As usual, I agree with most of what you said. The only serious problem I have is with your statement "[...] does very often not produce the expected output [...]. This suggests that there is always a "right" and a "wrong" outcome. But policy is not science. In elections people choose between different sets of values which will than be applied to individual issues where there is no simple "good" or "bad". It's not unlikely that in a democracy 49% of the citizens don't agree with that choosen set of values. That's why governments have to open up and listen to all citizens (not only self-selected pressure groups). But listening - for example in the framework of public hearings - is time consuming, so there is always a trade-off between beeing inclusive and being quick. As you know especially the Internet community is traditionally looking for quick decisions; back in 1997 that was one of the strongest arguments for the ICANN model.

Cheers,

Michael


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
Gesendet: 29.05.2011 09:32:18
An: "Michael Leibrandt" <michael_leibrandt at web.de>, "Adam Peake" <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>, governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: AW: [governance] G8 Deauville Declaration

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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