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

[parminder]

On Thursday 21 March 2013 09:29 PM, McTim wrote:
> 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,

A most surrpsing statement!! Almost anything can be said, right, when 
you have the winds blowing to back you. By winds I mean the the sheer 
power of the status quo, which, judging by your statement, has given up 
even the pretence of democratic values and norms.... And the civil 
society is an accomplice in its silence.

So, anyway, you do agree that the definition employed by the tech/acad 
community focal point for what constitutes tech/acad community does 
limit the choice to a few hundreds. Useful point coming from someone who 
considers himself as core technical community (though, left out by the 
definition employed by the focal point)


> in that the CSTD is NOT a MS process,
> nor is it an Internet Governance process,
That you resort to such weak logic only proves the point.

parminder

> 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?
>
>


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