[governance] Fwd: Final composition of the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

[McTim]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:37 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> Milton
>
> At the highest level I do agree that there is, to some extent,  a new global
> public made largely possible by the Internet, and corresponding to it a new
> global polity, which are worth conceptualising, and then also pursuing at
> practical levels. I am ready to do both theorising and principles building
> around such an emergent global public and polity with you, as well as do
> thought experiments about how the new political structures should and could
> look like....
>
> Agreed that nation statesd based representation model is imperfect in the
> present circumstances. Additional forms of public representations have to
> explored and developed. But of course these new explorations need to be
> based on some top level principles. The problem is - and I have articulated
> it often - I am yet to hear such top level principles for bringing in non
> nation state based public representative to global governance levels.
> Neither in fact one sees any progress towards articulating practical models
> of what really is meant by when for instance Wolfgang says that governments
> should "share their decision making capacity".
>
> At the top principles level, two thing come to my mind very strongly
>
> 1) Means of selection of non gov representatives of the 'global public' in
> multistakeholder (MS) processes ( we have seen deep sensitivity in this
> group against discussing such things)

Why does there have to be "representation" beyond representing oneself?

>
> 20 Role of businesses or private sector (one cannot understand that if
> business is not given a voting role in national polities, on what basis
> should they get a voting role in global polity, but happy to hear
> justifications)

Why does there have to be voting?

Decisions can be made on consensus as well as by a vote!

See Bertrand's excellent post under the thread: "Shared Decision
Making Procedures"  for more answers to your queries!


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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