[governance] Re: [bestbits] US style Multistakeholderism

[McTim]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:14 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 13 October 2014 11:39 PM, David Cake wrote:
>
> Seemed to almost entirely be a criticism of the US govts hypocrisy in
> talking up its commitment to multi-stakeholderism while simultaneously
> pursuing lobbyist led goals by other means.
> As a criticism of US govt hypocrisy, its fine.
>
>
> Thanks David, that was the primary purpose of the posting.
>
> As a criticism of multi-stakeholderism, its incoherent.
>
>
> If it is just incoherence that is your problem, you may like to read the
> following rather well argued and supported critique of multistakeholderism
> (MSism)
>
> "State of Davos: The camel's nose in the tents of global governance"
> http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/state_of_davos_chapter.pdf
>
> What is interesting is that it critiques practically every currently
> practised aspect of MSism in the global IG space, without ever referring to
> IG. Shows how MSism is not some special state of governance associated with
> the Internet's oft-claimed 'special nature'. It was not even invented by the
> IG guys... It was invented by hard neolibs of Davos kind, for obvious
> reasons.

So 40 years of bottom up, consensus based open, transparent policy
making was invented in 2009-10?

That implies time travel.

As usual, the facts don't fit your paradigm.


-- 
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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