[governance] Stakeholder group distinctions (was Re: Ad hoc...)

[Norbert Bollow]

David Cake <dave at difference.com.au> wrote:

> 	The 'Technical Community Role in Global Internet Governance'
> workshop on Thursday made it fairly clear that the division between
> technical community and civil society (or other stakeholder groups)
> is a fairly artificial one, with many of us filling a variety of
> different roles at different times

What does this imply for processes such as the CSTD WG on Enhanced
Cooperation where the selection of participants is based on this kind
of stakeholder categories?

If I've been hearing right what Constance Bommelaer, who was the tech
community “focal point” for that selection process, has been telling
me (I'm Cc'ing Constance in the hope that she'll correct me if I'm in
any way misrepresenting this), the tech community's selection process
has been based on the goal of selecting people who are somehow
specifically representative of the particular kind of perspective that
is characteristic of that community of techies and academics.

Furthermore, they're working on a paper that will explain this and
the underlying principles in significant clarity.

I think that it will be very valuable for us in civil society to follow
that example and undertake a similar clarification exercise in regard
to our own identity as a community, etc.

Greetings,
Norbert
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