[governance] Inter-stakeholder issues in a multi-stakeholder environment

[McTim]

Mawaki,


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Deirdre Williams <
> williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I began this message 12 days ago in response to a thread started by
>> Michael Gurstein
>>  Let's Get Real Folks--Re: [governance] Re: [bestbits] DISCLOSURE REQUEST
>> Re: Funding Available for Strengthening Civil Society
>> I gave up. Now I am encouraged to try again by this new thread
>> Re: [governance] Inter-stakeholder issues in a multi-stakeholder
>> environment
>> begun by George Sadowsky.
>>
>> Is there any way to shift the focus from the people to the issues?
>> In the final analysis everyone belongs to civil society. That point was
>> made by a representative of a local telecommunications company at a recent
>> workshop on IXPs held in Saint Lucia. As he said, his children also query
>> the speed of the Internet at home when they have to do their homework. The
>> only people excluded from civil society are incarcerated prisoners, and
>> that also is a statement that can be questioned. If I understand him
>> correctly George Sadowsky is making the same point. Civil society is us -
>> all of us.
>>
>
> Sure! We may declare everybody is CS and expect any institutional policy
> process to open mike to whoever walks in and requests to speak as CS. From
> my part, I was working on the basis of assumptions I thought were widely
> recognized as part of the current landscape --and even an inevitable part.
> If we want to talk about _multistakeholder_ processes, then we cannot but
> recognize multiple stakeholders, thus boundaries.
>


The above only applies if you are talking about the Geneva-centric IG
landscape.  What I call "meta-IG".

Here is an example where it does not apply at all.  All "stakeholders" come
together as co-equals, with zero boundaries.

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>  If we have set up IGC as a membership structure, then we have necessarily
> identified criteria for membership, thus boundaries.
>

Correct, because we are so focused on Geneva and the "political power" that
SGs have in those processes.


-- 
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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