[governance] Civil society perspective on governance models (was Re: Ad hoc...)

[Norbert Bollow]

McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeremy,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> wrote:
> > I haven't had a chance to write about the technical community
> > meeting that took place at lunchtime today, but it felt (to me)
> > like an astonishing power-grab in progress - they are forming a new
> > coalition that will create a "grassroots" campaign, with the
> > pre-determined objective of reasserting the primacy of "the"
> > multi-stakeholder model against "government-centric" models.
> 
> CS should not have a problem with that, we should embrace it as it
> gives CS more clout than a Inter-gov model, no?

I'm with Jeremy on this point. We should absolutely avoid deciding our
substantive positions regarding governance models on the basis of what
would give a few of us civil society participants in the global Internet
governance circus a bit of power. Rather, we need to work towards forms
of governance that are based on truly democratic power and which involve
strong accountability and checks and balances. I do not see any way in
which these necessary requirements could be achieved while “reasserting
the primacy of "the" multi-stakeholder model against
"government-centric" models.”

Greetings,
Norbert

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