[governance] CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation : Update

[McTim]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:55 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I think this is a serious matter. Let me argue why. This group, and perhaps
> much of IG civil society, has been rather focussed on multistakeholderism as
> a new participatory form of democracy (hopefully!). Now, it is easy to say
> that civil society, business and technical comunity should be at the policy
> making table or at least involved substantially. But the immediate question
> then is; who among these groups should be allowed in? Representivity
> therefore is the most key issue that participatory democracy and
> multistakeholderism (MSism) must constantly deal with. Since it is the
> contention of this movement that elections  *do not exhaust" public
> representation, and that they need to be complemented by other forms, it
> must show how it adds to public representativity and, rather, does not take
> away from it.
>
> This is the key legitimacy question for MSism and I invite the numerous
> theoreticians and practitioners of MSism in this group to engage with the
> episode that Michael has been involved in as below in light of this key
> legitimacy question fro MSism - how do we select representatives, when
> indeed the occasion comes that not everyone can be seated at the table, not
> even everyone who turns up.

I think it ironic that in the technical community processes I'm
involved in everyone who shows up "gets a seat at the table", while in
the UN processes that are allegedly MS, there is an insistence on
"representivity" by CS advocates.

The T&A Community is a separate grouping because they were (r)ejected
by folks in CS at WSIS, so I don't see how we can complain they are
their own SG when we won't tolerate them in our SG!


-- 
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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