[governance] Important concept

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi Dmitry,


thank you for this helpful distinction between government, governance 
and Foucault-based governmentality. There is another quite similar but 
more general definition of governance that I like: reflexive 
coordination. It refers to coordinating activities that touch upon the 
social order underlying such activities.

Whatever definition chosen, one cannot emphasize enough that governance 
arrangements can be found anywhere in the internet universe and do not 
necessarily imply governments, public administrations or legal tools. 
The popularity of the term governance in academia is due to the fact 
that it decouples political actions from the governmental sector. The 
IETF, or standard setting more generally for example, can - and should - 
also be studied from a governance perspective as reflexive coordination.

jeanette

Am 21.12.13 23:40, schrieb Dmitry Epstein:
> Hello,
>
> Sandra Braman, in her excellent book "Change of State" (2009), makes a
> distinction, which I think can be helpful here.
>
> She distinguishes between “/government /(formal institutions of the
> law); /governance /(decision-making with constitutive effect whether it
> takes place within the public or private sectors, and formally or
> informally); and /governmentality /(cultural predispositions and
> practices that produce and reproduce the conditions that make particular
> forms of governance and government possible)” (p.3).
>
> Best,
> Dmitry
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch
> <mailto:nb at bollow.ch>> wrote:
>
>     McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com <mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>      > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Kerry Brown
>     <kerry at kdbsystems.com <mailto:kerry at kdbsystems.com>>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      > >
>     http://blog.cira.ca/2013/12/the-panel-on-the-future-of-global-internet-cooperation/
>      > >
>      > > "In the political world, the term ‘governance’ is loaded, and
>      > > carries with it ideas of power and authority, certainly not the
>      > > same meaning that we in the Internet world have given it. Are the
>      > > terms coordination and administration more helpful moving forward?"
>      >
>      > I have always felt so.
>      >
>      > > The above statement really struck a chord with me. It gets at the
>      > > heart of the current tension between governments, commercial, and
>      > > civil society interests. If we changed to speaking about
>      > > coordination and administration rather than governance it may may
>      > > facilitate more productive conversations from all the concerned
>      > > parties.
>      >
>      > The I*'s used those words (the 4 C's) Collaboration, Communication,
>      > Cooperation and Coordination around admin of tech resources during
>      > WSIS. It didn't seem to catch on as a meme outside of the folk who
>      > were actually doing the 4 C's.
>      >
>      > Doesn't mean we can't try again.
>
>     What about those aspects and public interest concerns which are part of
>     Internet Governance in the sense of the WGIG/Tunis Agenda working
>     definition, but which don't fit into “coordination and administration”
>     or into “Collaboration, Communication, Cooperation and Coordination
>     around admin of tech resources”?
>
>     Greetings,
>     Norbert
>
>
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