[governance] CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation : Update

[Adam Peake]

Comment below

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:00 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,


As one of the people coordinating this caucus at the time - no they weren't

Adam


> so I don't see how we can complain they are
> their own SG when we won't tolerate them in our SG!
>




>
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>
> McTim
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