[governance] Blogpost: Multistakeholderism vs. Democracy: My Adventures in "Stakeholderland"

[McTim]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, David Allen
<David_Allen_AB63 at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> from the blogpost
>
> “… the T/A stakeholder group includes probably no more than 3-400 people in
> the entire world …

I think this number is off by several orders of magnitude.

If the T&A Focal Point decides to limit the pool to just a few hundred
folk, then that is her choice, in that the CSTD is NOT a MS process,
nor is it an Internet Governance process, it's a top-down,
inter-governmental process that adds a few seats at the table for
others to talk about EC, what it means, and how it can be further
developed.   I've already stated that the T&A folk have over a decade
of experience in EC (doing it before the term came into being). I have
no problem with them limiting their choices.

>
> “… this group functions … as peers with a … group representing all of the
> governments of the world, a second group (CS) representing all of the
> citizens of the world, and a third group representing all of the businesses
> of the world …”

The key word here is "peers".  How much of a vote do non-governmental
folk get in the CSTD?


-- 
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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