[governance] Industrial Progress, revisited…

[McTim]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Andrea Glorioso
<andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
>
> On May 18, 2013 9:05 PM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We don't vote in MS processes,
>
> Who is the "we" here?

Those of us who participate in the BUTOC (Bottom Up, Transparent,
Open, Consensus) based processes of IG.


 And is this your opinion of what multi-stakeholder
> processes do and don't, or does this come from some kind of shared
> definition of the concept?


Comes from personal observation over many years.

>
>> hopefully co-conspirators in disintermediating democracy from
>> "representatives" who don't necessarily always "represent" their
>> constituents.
>
> What does "disintermediating democracy" mean in practice, and who gets to
> decide whether a "representative" is actually representing his/her
> constituents or not?

It actually doesn't matter if a representative is doing his or her job
in representing when individuals can participate in a more direct form
of democracy.  In that case, participative democracy is
disintermediating.

-- 
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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