[governance] Industrial Progress, revisited…

[parminder]

On Saturday 18 May 2013 05:18 PM, John Curran wrote:
> A interesting article from Seth Godin:  http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/05/its-thomas-midgeley-day.html
> (Although I expect that idea that business can do rather bad things in the name of innovation in not new to this mailing list...)

A very good warning against giving big business a veto over public 
policy decisions, which is what multistakeholderism  essentially is, in 
the manner it is propagated in global IG today. We will live to repent 
it, and those who are pushing it in this manner would be responsible, 
which includes a big part of the so called civil society.

I can simply not get over clear statements during WCIT that Google wasnt 
an equal stakeholder, which it must be, because it hadnt a vote as govs 
had... One sees that kind of sentiment becoming pretty mainstream among 
many global IG actors.

parminder
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> /John
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