[governance] stakeholder categories (was Re: NSA sabotage of Internet security standards...)

[McTim]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:41 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>

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>
> BTW, what does this kind of vaporisation of stakeholder categories do to
> multistakeholderism - As aptly questioned by Ian... We are then all just
> 'public', and governance is based on developing contextual conceptions of
> public interest, which is done by normal democratic methods.....
> Multistakeholderists cannot have their cake and eat it too...... Either
> there are stakeholder categories, with some definitions, or there are
> not.....

Some of us who support multi-equal stakeholdersim in IG do not think
categories are useful.

>
> Two other conceptions have been offered for delineating civil society. One
> is self definition. Well, fine, but why does this not apply say also to
> technical community..... Why is it fine that someone who self defines
> himself as technical and academic community, and in fact is demonstrably an
> academic,  may not be considered as 'tech and academic community' by whoever
> is the
> gatekeeper of that particular community,

Was it that they weren't considered to be T&A, or was it that they
were not chosen to represent T&A?  there is a difference.

But your query highlights one of the challenges in "silos".


-- 
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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