[governance] Principles

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Well said, Karl ! Your opinion after Ronny's reminder on the common sense, set my mind at rest as regards CS vision on Internet and realities Best regards Jean-Louis Fulsack





> Message du 02/10/12 08:50
> De : "Karl Auerbach" 
> A : governance at lists.igcaucus.org
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> Objet : Re: [governance] Principles
> 
> On 10/01/2012 12:52 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:
> 
> > Multistakeholderism *IS* the highest form of participatory democracy
> 
> I rather take a rather different position, which is that stakeholderism
> is oligarchy and not democratic at all.
> 
> I remind people of my paper of several years ago - "Stakeholderism - The
> Wrong Road For Internet Governance" - at
> http://www.cavebear.com/archive/rw/igf-democracy-in-internet-governance.pdf
> 
> Stakeholderism assigns one, and often more, voices to those who have
> "stake", typically measured in financial terms.
> 
> That means that some speakers, those with "stake" get to speak louder
> than others. Indeed often those with "stake" exclude those without from
> the fora and processes of decision-making.
> 
> Do we really want a system of internet governance based on the long
> discarded notion that there is a hierarchy among people of "stake"; that
> there is a kind of royal rank and nobility, that makes some people more
> worthy than others to govern the internet?
> 
> The rule should be one person, one vote, no more, no less.
> 
> Each individual human should be the atomic unit of internet governance,
> not how much money that person has, how he/she has invested that money,
> which corporations he/she is affiliated with, or whether he/she owns
> trademarks or intellectual property.
> 
> I have no problem with exercising democracy via representatives. But I
> do have a problem with systems that give different or additional tickets
> of admission to some and smaller tickets, or no tickets at all, to others.
> 
> The list of bodies of governance that have sold their souls to those who
> have "stake" and have thus become captives of those who they have so
> designated is a list that runs from A to Z. It is not a list of
> successes; it is a list of failures.
> 
> Anyone who has a "stake" is free to express his/her views - as a person
> - and cast his/her votes - as a person - along with everyone else, with
> equality. But to give that person an additional or louder voice - no.
> 
> --karl--
> 
> 
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