[governance] IGF Cancelled

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

That almost sounds like we collectively object to governments calling the 
tune and shutting out other stakeholders from anything but a consultative 
role but we still expect them to put up money for an event that advocates 
multistakeholderism

How have previous igfs been funded by the way, exclusively from a ministry 
budget?

--srs (htc one x)



On 26 July 2013 10:04:59 AM parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 26 July 2013 09:16 AM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> > On 26/07/13 11:31, Ang Peng Hwa (Prof) wrote:
> >> According to third party sources I asked, ie not the Indonesians, one 
> major item that added to the cost is that the UN had apparently asked for 
> US$900k to fly personnel and security equipment for the event.
> >
> > Time to cut the UN apron strings.
>
> Why sure, we can check with Google. They will be quite happy to run the 
> global internet policy dialogue.... It is most astounding that after 
> subverting and ditching the tradition of strictly public funding for policy 
> spaces and activities, and adopting the neoliberal and anti-democratic (and 
> fancy) multistakeholder funding model, now that it has collapsed one is to 
> blame the public systems for it....
>
> To repeat: this disaster occurred precisely because of cutting of the apron 
> strings that policy space should always have tied to public funds and 
> public systems. When Indonesian government said last year that it was 
> unable to fund the IGF, it should not have been handed over to a private 
> committee headed by a businessman. ... It should have been shifted to 
> another country willing to host it.... We are participating in an absolute 
> privatisation of governance and politics, and simply following the neolib 
> agenda that represents the interests of the most powerful...
>
> And this is indeed sheer 'power' - that those who are responsible for a 
> 'failure' can so conveniently blame others for it, and employ their own 
> failure to further their cause....
>
> And why should this be seen as a 'failure'. See it as an opportunity to 
> completely do away with pulbic funded and pulbic systems supported public 
> spaces... Lets go over completely to corporate funded policy spaces and 
> policy making.... Why make these moves in such shifty cautious ways. So at 
> least we will all know what is that we are contributing to building - what 
> kind of society...
>
> (By the way, right now we have a full fledged experiment of this kind - 
> corporate run policy spaces - running in India, it shows the pattern and 
> the larger design of certain ideologies and forces, and the extent to which 
> they have been successful.)
>
> parminder
>
> (PS: This is a general response, not just to your email, Jeremy. And please 
> do excuse my cynical language. These anti-democratic shifts are really 
> disturbing.)
> >
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