[governance] Multi-stakeholder model, evolution and revolution

Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Tue Dec 4 18:45:24 EST 2012


Or, to address johns point, they are another form of a struggle to wrest control from the incumbents, so possibly a power grab dressed in e appropriate civil society jargon?

--srs (iPad)

On 05-Dec-2012, at 3:59, Andrea Glorioso <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> John Curran wrote recently on this list:
> 
> " I harbor a concern that incremental change may be the only type of change that open multistakeholder deliberations can actually support, as the discussions of more revolutionary changes seem to inevitably jump to more authoritarian questions such as "who is charge", "who can approve this", etc. This is a topic worth thinking about in general about MS governance processes."
> 
> Is there any serious research analyzing the extent to which multi-stakeholder processes favour evolutionary vs revolutionary decisions / changes, in the Internet world or elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrea
> 
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