[governance] Re: [bestbits] Three NETmundial submissions launched for endorsement at bestbits.net

[McTim]

Just to clarify one point:


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:57 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> Hi Stephanie
>
> Just to clarify three points...
> On Friday 14 March 2014 09:16 PM, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
>
> Dear Parminder, I think this is a really important and difficult
> question...I am not sure we agree until I read your referenced docs.    I am
> not prepared to give up on democracy yet, but there is no question it could
> use a little spine-stiffening, and I think the Internet and the modern
> phenomenon of social media campaigns is exactly the kind of envigoration it
> needs.
>
>
> I have no doubt that the new communicative paradigm centred on the Internet
> will fundamentally transform the practice (not the principles) of democracy.
> In fact, we know that there are movements ranging from European cities, to
> Philippines, to India to the US to streets of Brazil that represent a strong
> disenchantment with the manner political parties system operates today...
> And many alternative forms and practices are taking shape... But none of
> these resembles what we know as multistakeholderism in the IG space... Does
> this say something? In fact, all new democracy forms, no doubt incipient and
> experimental yet, are very wary of power of big business and voice strong
> opposition to it, much less like IG's MSism hug it fondly and offer it
> special political legitimacy... I challenge the IG MS-ist to bring one
> grassroots participatory democratic movement to endorse its pro big business
> formulae. And I am serious. please do take me on this challenge.

There is no pro- big business formulae" involved, it is a pro-Civil
Society "formulae", perhaps that is why so many on this list support
it!




-- 
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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