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

parminder parminder at itforchange.net
Fri Mar 22 01:54:45 EDT 2013


On Friday 22 March 2013 10:59 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> parminder [22/03/13 10:25 +0530]:
>> 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.
>
> Either that or you have a view that is in the minority

Fortunately, in the civil society we have not yet officially declared a 
handful as 'the' civil society. And I have a pretty good idea of what  
civil society generally makes of these kind of 'captures' as witnessed 
in the case of the recent tech/acad community related episode...



> - which might not be
> quite to your taste, but that can't be helped.
>


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